?NEW AND IMPROVED ASPARTAME?: NEOTAME

[Ruby]

Dr. Roberts was quoted in the LA Times today---the NY Times article was
very brief---any other comments from the Health News around the
country? I think one thing we might do is send info to the Health
Editors of our local papers.

Dr. Roberts letter to FDA March 3, 1998 Dockets Management Branch (HFA
A-305)
Food an Drug Administration 12420 Parklawn Drive Room 1-23
Rockville,Maryland 20857 Subject: Docket No. 98F-0052 (Food Additive
Petition for Neotame)

Dear Sir: I am writing to express my extreme opposition to approving the
Food Additive Petition for Neotame submitted by Monsanto Company.

It is my professional opinion that this chemical poses a potential major
health and environmental hazard to the American public -- particularly
in the absence of extensive, detailed and long term animal and human
studies (which I have been unable to obtain) that could prove its safety
to my satisfaction. I am a Board-certifid internist, and have been the
unsalaried director of the Palm Beach Institute for Medical Research
(not-for-profit) since l964.

This opinion is based on more than a decade of intense,
corporate-neutral clinical and epidemiological research concerning the
widespread serious medical problems directly attributable to products
containing aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal). My own database currently
exceeds 1,150 reactors. I have documented these reactions in more than
a score of published articles and letters, and three books.

The fundamental issue is that Neotame, a synthetic variation of
aspartame, requires extensive evaluation before the FDA should accept a
superficial opinion about its purported safety based largely on limited
short-term data involving potentially flawed protocols that were almost
totally funded by corporate contracts. (For perspective, I have not
received a cent of industry money for my researches.) This matter is
discussed at length in my publications relative to both animal and human
studies.
The timing and self-serving corporate interests of this petition are
suggested by the fact that the patent off aspartame expired several
years ago.

The approval of any analog of aspartame for human use MUST be
challenged. In my opinion, there is already sufficient evidence for
aspartame products to be withdrawn from the market as an "imminent
public health hazard" NOW! I have documented severe neurological,
intellectual, psychiatric, metabolic, endocrine, allergic and other
reactions to aspartame products in hundreds of patients. Moreover,
there is considerable reason to invoke aspartame and its metabolites as
a cause of significant contributory factor in the aggravation of
precipitation of diabetes and its complications, multiple sclerosis,
brain cancer (see enclosed peer-reviewed article), and the acceleration
of Alzheimers disease (refer to my book DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S
DISEASE). I summarized these perceived hazards in previous
correspondence to Representative Newt Gingrich (copy enclosed)
requesting a new Congressional hearing on the safety of aspartame
products.

As a physician and citizen, I am appalled at the thought of American
consumers being again subjected to an anticipated repeat of the
aspartame fiasco withut adequate objective and corporate neutral
evaluations that the FDA ought to DEMAND before taking such an action.

It is my longstanding belief that aspartame (originally developed as a
drug for treating peptic ulcer should not have been approved for human
consumption in the first place ... a view shared by other professionals
(including former in-house FDA scientists, consultants for the General
Accounting Office, and a Public Board of Inquiry).

The FDA, other regulatory officials and producers of Neotame products
are urged to heed these constructive warnings coming from a credentialed
doctor. Concomitantly, they are put on notice that ignoring them will
not go unchallenged if proven correct.
Yours truly, H. J. Roberts, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.C.C.P.
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Questions can be emailed to mgold@holisticmed.com.
Questions & Independent Answers About Neotame a.. What is Neotame?
b.. Will Neotame Be Approved and If So, When?
c.. Is Neotame a Neurotoxin Like Aspartame?
d.. The Unofficial History of Neotame e.. Healthier Sweetener
Resources -- PLEASE DO NOT switch from one toxic sweetener to another
Aspartame --> Neotame Transition "These are indeed extremely high levels
for adducts of formaldehyde, a substance responsible for chronic
deleterious effects (33) that has also been considered carcinogenic."
.....
"It is concluded that aspartame consumption may constitute a hazard
because of its contribution to the formation of formaldehyde adducts."
[Life Sci., Vol. 63, No. 5, pp. 337+,
1998] Based on this aspartame research, here is a suggested ad phrase
for Monsanto:
Now that we've embalmed you, let us finish the job with Neotame!
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Keywords
a.. neotame
b.. nutrasweet
c.. nutrisweet
d.. aspertame
e.. nutri sweet
f.. nutri-sweet
g.. Monsanto
h.. Kelco
i.. Nutrasweet Kelco
j.. Benevia
k.. equal
l.. Equal's Million Dollar Difference Giveaway
m.. Team Equal
n.. Equal Measure
o.. spoonful
p.. diet soda
q.. diet coke
r.. diet pepsi
s.. diet sprite
t.. pepsi light
u.. pepsi max
v.. crystal light
w.. sweeteners
x.. sugar
y.. artificial sweetener
z.. acesulfame-k
aa.. sucralose
ab.. sunette
ac.. sunnette
ad.. sweet one
ae.. sweet & safe
af.. splenda
ag.. Canderel
ah.. Chuker
ai.. Misura
aj.. Manugel
ak.. Keltrol
al.. Kelcogel

THE DANGERS OF NEOTAME

An Enhanced Derivative of Aspartame

Read NOTICE
This is taken from the Nexus Magazine web site and is an open letter to
the FDA regarding this chemical. If one is concerned about Aspartame,
you should be even more concerned with this chemical being used in food
products world-wide!
Open Letter to Dr. Jane Henney, FDA Commissioner From Betty Martini,
Founder Mission Possible International Dear Dr. Henney: As Founder of
Mission Possible International and on behalf of the Mission Possible
operations in the United State and other countries, I ask that you deny
for approval, Neotame. We are a worldwide volunteer force warning the
consumer public in 100 countries of the world off the deadly toxin,
aspartame, marketed as NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc. Neotame is
nothing more than a more potent aspartame, and H. J. Roberts, M.D.,
has declared Aspartame Disease to be a world epidemic and is in the
process of publishing a medical text on the world plague. His material
was distributed at the First International Conference on Emerging
Diseases in Atlanta to doctors and scientists in 91 countries of the
world.

Monsanto Communications Director Nancy Nevin said of neotame:
"Compositionally it begins with ASPARTAME, but a simple enhancement to
the dipeptide base of aspartame uniquely and marketedly changes its
sweetness. It is 40 times sweeter than ASPARTAME,"

The formulation has been investigated by many physicians. Dr. Roberts
said on 3/3/98 to Dockets Management of the Neotame petition: "The
timing and self-serving corporate interests of this petition are
suggested by the fact that the patent on aspartame expired several years
ago." He also said "The fundamental issue is that Neotame, a synthetic
variation of aspartame, requires extensive evaluation before the FDA
should accept a superficial opinion about its purported safety based
largely on limited short-term data involving potentially flawed
protocols that were almost totally funded by corporate contracts."

The world's health is hostage to the covert, devious cynical sellout of
public interests to corporate gold. On another issue, Phil Angell,
Monsanto's director of corporate communications, told the New York
Times: "Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech
food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring
its safety is the FDA's job."

So who would take the blame for Neotame approval? You would, Dr.
Henney!! You are an oncologist and according to the FDA's own audit on
aspartame, the Bressler Report, on www.dorway.com, aspartame triggered
brain tumors, mammary tumors, pancreatic tumors, ovarian tumors,
pituitary adenomas, uterine tumors, etc. A senior FDA toxicologist, the
late Dr. Adrian Gross, who tried to prevent the approval of aspartame,
told Congress that it violated the Delaney Amendment because it
triggered brain tumors, and that "If the FDA violates its own laws who
is left to protect the public?"

(Congressional Record SID835:131 - 8/1/85). Expect a new report soon on
escalating cancer cases linked with aspartame!

Famed researcher, Dr. John Olney made world news in l996 on the
aspartame/brain tumor issue as unwarned consumers suffer the same
consequences of the rats in the original studies that approved this
toxin. Yet, Dr. Friedman of the FDA went to the defense of Monsanto on
60 Minutes, and this is after the FDA themselves kept aspartame off the
market for 16 years because aspartame triggered brain tumors. And
secret trade information by the original manufacturer (as posted at
www.DORway.com and released to Congress)
admits they have to consider "complete conversion to DKP", the brain
tumor agent. And yet, they wanted to market it anyway. Profit was more
important than life!! And I weep for every consumer that dies from
these brain tumors, so many leaving young children to grow up without a
parent.

Dr. Jeffrey Bada, a peptide chemist, at the University of California at
San Diego, warned against heating aspartame and the resultant internal
rearrangement of its chemical structure.

The FDA themselves said for years you could not heat aspartame and then
in l993 turned right around and approved it for baking. Then in l996
Dr. David Kessler gave blanket approval for this deadly drug that
interacts with other drugs including monoamine oxidase inhibitors,
alpha-methyldopa and L-dihydroxphenylalanine. Complete
irresponsibility! Even in the secret trade information Herbert Helling
said "I think that it's vital to point out to the Food and Drug people
at this meeting that the sweetener is not suitable for all applications
for artificial sweeteners and at best would only be functional in part
of the market"... Yet, Dr.
Kessler saw fit for this drug to be used like sugar and even for
pregnant women to use without a warning.

Dr. Louis Elsas (Emory University Pediatric Professor, genetics)
testified before congress that aspartame is a neurotoxin and teratogen
(triggers birth defects). If the baby even survived, and were PKU, it
would be mentally retarded. And neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock says
if the baby survives you could even see problems at the age of puberty
when more complex parts of the brain are utilized, and that it also is
triggering ADD. Dr. Roberts in his position paper on pregnancy and
aspartame says even a man using aspartame at the time of conception can
cause birth defects in his own child. I told Dr. Friedman at the time
my own daughter got pregnant that the food supply was no longer safe and
that aspartame is now unlabeled in many things because of this blanket
approval. Last week my own daughter lost her baby and was told that 50%
of first pregnancies are now ending in miscarriage. An OB-GYN
specialist told me yesterday this was not normal. Some women have told
me they have lost as many as 7 babies on aspartame. I call it first
degree murder! Monsanto funded a study on birth defects which was
disastrous, so they withdrew their funding and Dr. Diana Dow-Edwards
had to pay it herself. Then neither Monsanto or the FDA would accept
it.
Quite a message to the world - if a researcher will not say it is safe,
the study will not be accepted. Do you want to inflict more of this on
the world with Neotame???

I called Dr. Bada about Neotame and asked him to look over the
formula. He told me they scrambled the formula but yes , it was the
same deadly breakdown products!
Biochemist Dr. Madelon Price who works with the famed Dr. John Olney
agrees.

The Material Safety Data Sheet on Aspartame (CAS# 22839-47-0 says that
to work with aspartame one should wear chemical goggles, protective
gloves to prevent skin exposure, a chemical apron and a NIOS/MSHA
approved air purifying dust or mist respirator. And Dr. Henney, this
toxin is in children's vitamins and medications. Are you not
horrified?! It lists the hazardous decomposition products as methanol,
formaldehyde and DKP (tumor agent), carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen,
and carbon dioxide. Do you understand that we do not want this toxin in
our food. Dr. Blaylock in a lecture on www.dorway.com explains that
the reactions to aspartame are not allergic but toxic in nature like
arsenic and cyanide!! Do you want to approve more of the same and can
you imagine the synergistic effects with other excitotoxins like MSG??

In l986, the Community Nutrition Institute petitioned the FDA to ban
aspartame because people were going blind -- but the FDA refused! Cases
continue to pour in on this issue as aspartame destroys also the optic
nerve. Focus RP Magazine in November wrote an article on aspartame
titled: "What's Blinding the World?"
(http://www.focusnewsletter.org/aspartame.htm) Would you dare to approve
neotame and increase this problem? The aspartame ADI was set for rats,
not humans and 26 questions to the FDA have gone unanswered for years
(on www.dorway.com)

Monsanto is the largest manufacturer of poisons in the world responsible
for aspartame, agent orange, RBGH and genetic engineering. An article
titled "Monsanto in Parliament" quoted speaker Norman Baker saying
Monsanto has made itself Public Enemy No. 1. He says they have
bulldozed elected governments across the world and forced its wretched
products on to the world's population, whether we want them or not.
Further Monsanto has been condemned by the Advertising Standards
Authority, which found it guilty of making "wrong ... unproven,
misleading and confusing claims". He further says it has used the
revolving door policy and makes sure that personnel from Monsanto and
government agency advisory bodies frequently switch positions. "Marcia
Hale, the former adviser to the US President is now the director of
international government affairs of the Monsanto corporation.

Michael Kantnor, the former Secretary to the US Department of Commerce
is now a member of the Monsanto corporation board. Josh King, the
former director of production for White House events, is now the
Director of Global Communications for the Monsanto corporation.
Margaret Miller, the former chemical laboratory supervisor for Monsanto,
is now the deputy director of the new animal drug evaluation office in
the US Union documents that have been passed to Monsanto by Dr. Nick
Weber of the FDA, and a former Monsanto analyst." Also he says: "It is
getting the Food and Drug Administration on board"...

The public has to know if you are on board with Monsanto and willing to
approve this toxin or there for the protection of the consumer's health
against unsafe food and drugs.

Action speaks louder than words. Dr. James Bowen told the FDA many
years ago that aspartame was mass-poisoning of the American public and
more than 70 countries of the world. He ought to know as a victim that
now suffers with Lou Gehrigs Disease. Aspartame destroys the brain, the
central nervous system and the optic nerve and ravages every organ in
the body. A recent study by Trocho, Pardo and co-workers, has
demonstrated that following aspartame ingestion, significant amounts of
formaldehyde accumulate in the tissues.

Formaldehyde is known to bind strongly to proteins and nucleic acids,
forming adducts that are extremely difficult to eliminate through normal
metabolic pathways. Dr. Blaylock says in this study, they demonstrated
that labeled methanol (as formaldehyde) accumulated in high
concentrations in the liver (50%) and in lower, but substantial,
concentrations in the kidney, adipose tissue, brain and retina. within
the cell, they found large amounts located within the DNA.

The largest study on aspartame is being conducted on the consumer public
and as we tally the results, this may end up being one of the largest
epidemics in world history! In May
1992, the official U.S. Air Force Magazine, FLYING SAFETY explained:
.."People have suffered aspartame related disorders with doses as small
as that carried in a single stick of chewing gum. This could mean a
pilot who drinks diet sodas is more susceptible to flicker vertigo or to
flicker-induced epileptic activity. It also means that all pilots are
potential victims of sudden memory loss, dizziness during instrument
flight and gradual loss of vision." (Three American Airline pilots who
were heavy users of aspartame died within the last year and a half and
the FAA says they can't do anything until the FDA does!) Indeed, Dr.
Roberts said that aspartame laced gum works like nitroglycerin, small
molecules, goes through saliva straight to the brain. We have sent case
histories to FDA where consumers have suffered grand mal seizures on a
stick of this gum. I'll quote a copy of a letter sent to you on 3/14/99
by Chelsea Tallman, 491 Westerly Rd, #102, Bellingham, Wa 98226, a 24
year old in whom aspartame shattered half of her life.

"For the past 12 years I have been plagued by the following symptoms:
Severe headaches, digestive problems, asthma, breathing problems,
chronic fatigue, depression, suicidal tendencies, dizziness, ringing in
ears, pressure in ears, loss of equilibrium, numbness in arms and legs,
shooting pains in legs, blurred vision, floaters, watering eyes, dry
eyes, fibromyalgia symptoms, hormonal problems, menstrual
irregularities, pre-menopause, confusion, heart palpitations, spasms,
nausea, personality changes, rashes, Lyme's disease symptoms, sleeping
disorders, speech difficulties, swaying and staggering when walking,
swollen optic nerves, racing heart, change of taste, uncoordinated walk,
vertigo, weakness, weight gain in hips and thighs, and loss of 12 normal
functioning years of my life. The worst part is that I am only 24 years
old!"

Dr. Henney, she goes on to say that her parents spent thousands of
their hard-earned money to try and find the culprit, and that her
illness was so much of a part of her life that it was written about in
her marriage vows. She also said: "After the total elimination of this
substance from my diet, the symptoms listed above have either
disappeared, or are greatly diminished. I have, however, accidentally
ingested aspartame on 3 occasions, within minutes I started suffering
all over again. My suffering would last anywhere from days to weeks
depending on how much aspartame I ingested. Most of my original
suffering was from CHEWING 1 SINGLE STICK OF ASPARTAME-FILLED GUM A
DAY." Chelsea said you would never want to see any of your own family
suffer the way hers has. "Imagine having your daughter always in such
severe pain that it moved her to tears and unneeded torture every single
day. Imagine always being in fear that you would get a phone call
telling you your child had killed themselves just to stop the pain they
endured." Recently an aspartame victim did commit suicide!

In Dr. Roberts letter about Neotame on March 3, l998 he said: "As a
physician and citizen, I am appalled at the thought of American
consumers being again subjected to an anticipated repeat of the
aspartame fiasco"..

Another senior FDA toxicologist, Dr. Verrett told Congress that the
studies that approved aspartame were built on a foundation of sand and
should have been thrown out.
These studies that were the target of an indictment for fraud that was
not carried out when two U.S. Prosecutors went to work for the law firm
defending the case and let the statute of limitations expire, actually
approved aspartame.

A petition for recall is now being signed at
http://www.e-thepeople.com/petition.cfm?PETID=109862 At Dr. Roberts
first press conference he said unless something is done about aspartame
we would end up with a world plague, and that we have. This time,
listen to demands for recall by an outraged consumer public that has
been screaming about this toxin since it was approved. Dr. Ralph
Walton on 60 Minutes said only 90 independent studies are valid on
aspartame, and of these 83 showed problems!

As aspartame destroys the CNS it is mimicking MS, as it hardens the
synovial fluids victims are being misdiagnosed as having fibromyalgia
and consumers are getting brain tumors and going blind. Babies are
being murdered in their mother's womb and young people with their whole
life ahead of them are dying of brain tumors. It is escalating
Alzheimers according to Dr. Roberts. It precipitates diabetes, Graves
Disease, epilepsy, chronic fatigue, Parkinson's and ALS. A pivotal
study (SC18862) submitted was done on 7 infant monkeys:
5 had grand mal seizures and 1 died. The FDA report shows 92 symptoms
from coma to death. It triggers an irregular heart rhythm and interacts
with drugs. Dr. Henney, don't let further disability and death be your
legacy. Recall aspartame and refuse to approve Neotame.

More detailed information written to Dockets Management is on
www.dorway.com and www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
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