Morando Soffritti, an Italian researcher with the Ramazzini Foundation
in Bologna is known for his publication of a study that found aspartame, the
artificial sweetener consisting of two amino acids and a methanol binding
agent, caused
multiple cancers in rats. Soffritti was in New York on Monday, 23 April,
to accept a prestigious academic award and to talk about a second study his
institute is conducting with lower doses of aspartame. Although results have
not yet been published, the study appears set to confirm the findings of the
first study and the researchers are finding negative health effects even at
very low dosages of aspartame, comparable to the intakes of people who are
regularly using diet drinks.
See
New Study by Ramazzini Institute Confirms Aspartame Carcinogenic
In a move designed to head off yet more negative publicity for the toxic
sweetener, the FDA issued a press release on Friday - just days before
Soffritti's talk at the Mount Sinai Medical School - re-stating the FDA's
earlier contention that there is "No
evidence the sweetener causes cancer".
"The Food and Drug Administration says Italian researchers reached
the wrong conclusion when they said the sugar substitute aspartame
causes cancer. The director of the F-D-A's Office of Food Additive
Safety, Laura Tarantino, says a review of the data from the 2005 study
found "no evidence" that the low-calorie sweetener is a carcinogen. A
similar review by the F-D-A's European counterpart reached the same
conclusion."
In this way, the press was induced to carry the FDA's denial in numerous
variations and Soffritti's talk last Monday was no longer considered
"newsworthy", although there IS a new study in progress and it certainly
adds to emerging knowledge about the effects of the artificial sweetener. It
is of interest to see PR at work here and one should should note how well
the technologies of public communication are being used by Big Pharma and
its supposed "regulator", the FDA. The two, it seems, will soon be
joined in an incestuous 'marriage', if a recent bill proposed by Senator
Kennedy finds the approval of US lawmakers.
Aspartame - FDA spins news on second cancer study
(adapted from a recent communication of Betty Martini)
On Monday, Morando Soffritti, M..D., Scientific Director of the European
Foundation for Oncology and Environment Sciences "B. Ramazzini" in Bologna,
Italy received the prestigious Irving J. Selikoff Award and gave a lecture
on a new study on aspartame with small doses. After his first study in 2005
that made world news proving aspartame to be a multipotential carcinogen,
confirming FDA's original records, the European Ramazzini Foundation began a
second long term experiment, administering aspartame at low doses in
food to rats beginning during fetal life. Dr. Soffritti's new study
suggests a danger to unborn babies and especially to children, including the
risk of breast cancer as the child ages.
In original studies by Searle aspartame also triggered mammary tumors big
time. He says aspartame causes leukemia, lymphoma and pelvis and kidney
tumors. In his first study only the rats fed aspartame developed malignant
brain tumors. Aspartame breaks down to diketopiperazine, a brain tumor agent
that triggered brain tumors in original studies. In the
Bressler Report
or FDA audit, it explains how Searle, the original manufacturer were
excising the brain tumors, putting the rats back in the study, and then
resurrecting them on paper when they died. The report is on dorway.com In
fact, Dr. H. J. Roberts, Dr. Russell Blaylock and myself spoke to Jerome
Bressler and he said it was so bad when the FDA retyped his report they
removed the most damning 20%. The FDA to this day refuses to release it,
even to a congressman.
Dr. Soffritti mentioned in his lecture that aspartame is in 500 drugs,
and I might add even in children's prescription drugs like Pediatric
Augmentin, pediatric vitamins and over-the-counter pediatric drugs. Also
important was the caution that pregnant moms that consumed aspartame
appeared to pass on the cancer risk to fetuses, with the vulnerability of
fetuses being such that exposure in womb seemed to add to cancer risk later
in life. That parallels the human experience.
In 1985, Dr. Louis Elsas, Professor of Genetics, then at Emory
University, told Congress that aspartame is a neurotoxin and teratogen and
causes birth defects and mental retardation. Would you ever consider a child
using this deadly, deadly poison. Would you give a child arsenic? Don't
allow a child to have aspartame. In fact, neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock,
M.D., in a lecture said the reactions are not allergic but toxic
like those to arsenic and cyanide. His new lecture really explains
how serious the original Ramazzini Study is and how precise. It's called The
Truth About Aspartame and you can get a copy at
http://web.mac.com/dblaylock/iWeb/Atavistik%20Pictures/The%20Store.html
Dr. Blaylock's books like Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills are at
http://www.russellblaylockmd.com/
The FDA just committed such a despicable act. Knowing the new Ramazzini
would make world news on Monday, they sent out a release on Friday on the
2005 Ramazzini study saying they didn't accept it. Of course, they didn't
say why because there was no reason. You should see what the aspartame
industry with their influence tried to rebut it with and got caught. First
they tried to use a 16 page diet and health study questionnaire for seniors
over ten years ago. It asked if you smoke, do you exercise, do you eat
crackers, cookies sausage, collards, what was your highest grade in school,
have you had a hysterectomy, did you eat pancakes, oatmeal or strawberries
in the past year; carrots cheeseburgers, cornbread or brownies. Aspartame is
named in one of 56 questions: "Over the last 12 months when you drank coffee
or tea, what kind of sweetener did you regularly add?" They advertised that
as a new Federal Study on 567,000 Americans by the NIH, NCI and AARP. What
they didn't ask on the questionnaire was whether the respondents
had used aspartame products.
Then the European Food Safety Authority with links to Ajinomoto came out
with this "but the rats had respiratory disease which caused the cancers".
They should have been ashamed of themselves. Any physician or researcher
knows respiratory disease is often part of the dying process and it doesn't
cause cancer. After reporting them to the Universal Court of Justice one of
the members confessed they were pressured by industry to hijack science. So
the FDA had no excuses left to use.
The whole story about aspartame and cancer is in the public record. It's
in the medical text on the global plague - Aspartame Disease: An Ignored
Epidemic,
http://www.sunsentpress.com/ by H. J. Roberts, M.D. One man and an
attorney who worked in the Justice Department with aspartame brain tumors
are interviewed in "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World,
http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Misery-Poisoned-Cori-Brackett/dp/B000BQ5IWS,
an aspartame documentary.
Aspartame in The Ecologist
Can it get any worse? Aspartame can cause you to drop dead: many reports
come in about children athletes who
drop
dead for no apparent reason.
Meanwhile, Sainsbury's has
removed aspartame from it soft drinks...
See also:
Letter to FDA: Why are you lying about aspartame?
Betty Martini has written an open letter to the Laura Tarantino of the FDA
regarding the press release that negates cancer-causing effects of
aspartame, an artificial sweetener also known as nutra sweet, equal,
canderal and spoonful. The FDA's release, placed just before news of a
second italian study that seems to confirm aspartame toxicity was to be
published in New York, reads...
