From: Jaffe, Lyle D
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 7:48 AM
To: Dockets, FDA
Subject: FW: Open Letter to Wrigley Australia. Stop using the chemical
poison aspartame



-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum. [mailto:Bettym19@mindspring.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 5:56 PM
To: bstrang-wrigley.com.au
Subject: Open Letter to Wrigley Australia. Stop using the chemical
poison aspartame


Dear Mrs. Strang,
>I have been forwarded your letter to Ms. Bouman.  She wrote about the 
>seriousness of using this deadly chemical poison, aspartame 
>(NutraSweet/Equal,E951,Canderel, etc.) in your gum.  And what did you 
>do?  Sent a form note that basically says as long as it has been approved 
>by a government you can use it and who cares what happens to the 
>people.  Wrigley knows how deadly it is.  How could anyone not know after 
>being on the market for over 20 years.  The FDA of this country lists 92 
>documented symptoms triggered by aspartame from four types of seizures to 
>coma and death (http://www.dorway.com)  Wrigleys has been written to years 
>and when they wouldn't change to a safe substitute they were sued several 
>months ago in California for poisoning consumers.

Today there are over a 1/4 of a million web sites warning all consumers off 
this deadly neurotoxin including http://www.wnho.net which has the most 
recent press releases, and http://holisticmed.com/aspartame, the Aspartame 
Toxicity Center recording the mounting cases of sickness, disability and 
death.  Today in the US there are even aspartame detoxification 
centers.  One of them will be interviewed in the new documentary coming out 
soon on how to help the millions poisoned by this neurotoxin.  There are 
support groups including the new Aspartame Information and Support Group on 
http://www.wnho.net (click on aspartame, and it tells you how to subscribe 
under the pictures of products that contain this toxin).

Flying Safety, the U.S. Air Force magazine revealed:  (May, l992) "The 
effects of aspartame can be passed directly to the fetus, even in very 
small doses.  People have 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 ... all pilots are potential victims of sudden memory 
loss during instrument flight and gradual loss of vision."

Gum is one of the  most serious products with aspartame because its buccal, 
and since aspartame is actually a neurotoxic drug masquerading as an 
additive it works like nitroglycerin under the tongue, goes through saliva 
straight to the brain.  A couple of years ago the University of Georgia TV 
Station did an expose here in Atlanta on aspartame and one of the women 
interviewed was someone who never used aspartame until someone handed her a 
piece of aspartame laced gum.  She had a grand mal seizure immediately and 
almost died.    Aspartame has been proven to be a seizure triggering 
drug.  Even one of the pivotal studies that approved aspartame, a 52 week 
oral toxicity study where seven infant monkeys were fed the toxin revealed 
that 5 had grand mal seizures and one died.  This pivotal study called the 
RAO is on http://www.dorway.com in completion for your review.

Even as far back as l986 there were complaints about these seizures.  From 
Knight News Service, Boston, the Florida Times Union on Thursday 4/24/86 
published an article, "2 Scientists Question FDA About Safe Use Of 
Nutrasweet".  From that article these comments:

" .. two scientists, Dr. Richard Wurtman, director of the Clinical Research 
Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Dr. Donald Schomer, 
head of the seizure units at Children's Hospital and Beth Israel Hospital 
in Boston, met with FDA officials on Monday in Washington to share their 
concerns about NutraSweet.   ..

"Wurtman said 86 persons have contacted him, all unsolicited, complaining 
of seizures after consuming varying amounts of NutraSweet.  None was shown 
to have underlying brain abnormalities that could have caused the seizures, 
he said.

"The FDA said Tuesday that an additional 80 persons have contacted the 
agency with complaints of seizures after using NutraSweet."

That was almost 20 years ago and today victims using this poison have had 
thousands of seizures.  In fact, I attended the Conference of the American 
College of Physicians and Surgeons with Dr. H. J.  Roberts some years 
ago.  In one of the workshops the first thing the professor of neurology 
said was:  "Can any physician tell us, even if its off the wall, why 
consumers all over the US are having seizures for no reason at all.  Be 
assured they were told.  There is 50% phenylalanine in aspartame which as 
an isolate is neurotoxic.  Dr. Wurtman told Congress in l985  the 
phenylalanine in aspartame goes directly into the brain and lowers the 
seizure threshold.  Further, aspartame depletes insulin from the brain, so 
the victim can also go into hypoglycemia and then into seizure.

But this is the tip of the iceberg, because with aspartame being on the 
market so long it is now known how many diseases it triggers,  so that Dr. 
Roberts when declaring aspartame disease a global plague published the 
medical text on it titled Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, 
www.sunsentpress.com  It is 1038 pages of symptoms and diseases and horrors 
triggered by this poison including drug interactions.  For instance, if 
someone has an aspartame seizure from chewing Wrigley's gum which they have 
so many times (having taken the complaints for 13 years) they may be given 
anti-seizure medication.  Aspartame interacts with Dilantin and like 
anti-seizure medication.

According to Dr. James Bowen, because aspartame damages the mitochondria or 
life of the cell it will interact with ALL MEDICATIONS.  He also has 
explained that aspartame causes polychemical sensitivity syndrome which is 
the same as multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome so will also interact 
with other toxins like fluoride, vaccinations and even other unsafe 
sweeteners like Splenda or sucralose which is a chlorinated hydrocarbon 
(these are usually classified as insecticides) and acesulfame potassium 
which caused cancer and leukemia in original studies. It has an additive 
and synergistic effect with MSG:  (http://truthinlabeling.org)

For years Wrigley's has been given this information, so rather than caring 
about the safety of consumers and taking aspartame out, they decided to 
cause more sickness and disability by putting aspartame in almost all of 
their products and mixing with other unsafe sweeteners like the two 
mentioned above.  This shows the intent of Wrigley's since all the evidence 
against aspartame is a matter of public record including three 
congressional hearings because of the outrage of the public being 
poisoned.  The behavior of Wrigley's is obscene, that they would care this 
little about the health of the people.  A lot of people knew some of 
Wrigley's products did not have aspartame so they used them, never looking 
at the label.  One man in North Dakota who had almost died from aspartame, 
chewed a piece as he drove along the highway and almost ran off the road as 
he got dizzy. He had no idea they had reformulated with aspartame  in some 
products, that originally didn't have it.   Dizziness is #2 on the FDA list 
of 92 symptoms.  Aspartame completely destroys the central nervous system.

The deadly effects of aspartame are also discussed in Excitotoxins: The 
Taste That Kills and Health & Nutrition Secrets To Save Your Life by 
neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D,. http://www.russellblaylockmd.com

Usually when a company doesn't care how many people will die from their 
product and have no excuse for using a poison that has been demonstrated to 
kill beyond any shadow of a doubt, they fall back on the fact  government's 
have approved it, so they can use a poison if they want to.  And that's 
what you have done.  Wrigley's is shameful because they know.  Food 
Standards Australia and New Zealand have been written so many times about 
aspartame I've lost count.  Dr. Roberts has written them as well as 
consumers and doctors in Australia.  They just disregard it, like you, say 
its been approved, so we don't have to do anything.

As to the European Union, you can't tell me they don't know how deadly 
aspartame is because I was there last time they did a review.  I flew to 
Brussels and met with Miguel-Angel Granero Rosell and Peter Wagstaffe.  I 
walked in with a huge medical text on the global plague that is as large as 
our Atlanta phone book and showed them that these diseases from this toxins 
have all been documented and even the mechanism by which aspartame triggers 
disease has been explained.  Like government officials who aren't going to 
do anything because their loyalty is to industry they did not even look 
through the book.  I gave them damaging research on the toxin as well as 
evidence that industry studies were flawed.  In fact, they were even given 
Dr. Ralph Walton's research he showed on 60 Minutes when Dr. John Olney 
made world news in l996 about the brain tumor and aspartame 
association.  This has to do with scientific peer reviewed research and 
funding.  Only industry controlled research ever said it was safe but 92% 
of independent scientific peer reviewed research all showed the 
problems.  And if you eliminate 6 studies the FDA had something to do with 
because they are now called the handmaiden of the pharmaceutical and 
chemical industry, and one pro-industry summary, 100 per cent of 
independent, peer reviewed scientific studies show the problems.  So who 
would you believe, industry engaged in negotiated research defending their 
product or independent, unbiased researchers trying to find the truth?  How 
does industry negotiate? They have a front group for research funds called 
ILSE, Life Sciences made up of companies like Coke, and manufacturers of 
aspartame.  You can read the UPI investigation on www.dorway.com and 
www.wnho.net  and see  Dr. Wurtman himself was threatened if he did studies 
on aspartame and seizures research funds to MIT would be denied, and they 
were.  Today MIT gets research funds and Dr. Wurtman no longer speaks out 
about aspartame. That's the way it is done.

The European Union eliminated all the damning research and used the flawed 
research.  The committee had industry people on it.  They didn't even read 
their own research.  It was as  if they were making it up as they went 
along.  You will find the complete rebuttal, over 50 pages of what the 
European Union did on http://www.wnho.net   Click on aspartame.

One of the most serious problem aspartame triggers is an irregular heart 
rhythm.  Aspartame interacts with all cardiac medication.  It damages the 
cardiac conduction system and causes sudden death.  Athletes in particular 
are dropping dead constantly.  They are always in the news.  And sudden 
death has become so epidemic that defibrillators are now being sold over 
the counter.  This is what aspartame has done to the world.

It is destroying families because it damages the hypothalamus of the brain 
and the mitochondria, and ruins female sexual response and triggers male 
sexual dysfunction.  Dr. James Bowen explained the hypothalamus is located 
in the floor of the fourth ventricle.  It is the coordinator of the master 
gland of the neuroendocrine system, the pituitary gland.  The hypothalamus 
is heavily damaged by this stream of excitotoxins from aspartame.  The 
white matter lining the ventricles and the nuclei and tracts of the brain 
stem and upper spinal cord are heavily damaged by this excitotoxin in the 
CSF as well.  They are by this secretory process, richly bathed in CSF to 
nourish them, but in the case of aspartame, it is also destroying them, 
along with their vital myelin sheaths and nuclei.  The aspartame 
neuroendocrine damage in the female is often accompanied by a rapid onset 
of amenorrhea and infertility, soon after beginning the consumption of 
aspartame.  Then if the woman gets off aspartame long enough to get 
pregnant, it is also an abortifacient.  If a live child manages to be born 
it is also a teratogen and can trigger birth defects and mental 
retardation.  And even if that live child appears okay at the time when he 
reaches puberty you may see the effect like behavioral problems, brought 
out in Dr. Blaylock's book.  And aspartame may have heinously damaged the 
DNA for generations to come.

Now you want to talk about our FDA.  There was a time when they were intact 
and tried to do a good job, many years ago, before there was so much 
loyalty to industry, and this well known revolving  door.  In fact, their 
two FDA toxicologists, Dr. Adrian Gross and Dr. Jacqueline Verrett were 
considered heros when it came to aspartame and tried to prevent 
approval.  It was Dr. John Olney, who founded the field of neuroscience, 
and one of the most renowned neuroscientists on the planet who 
attempted  to prevent approval and asked for the help of Attorney James 
Turner in Washington, D.C.  Dr. Olney did the studies on aspartic acid in 
l970 and found it to be an excitotoxin, product that literally stimulates 
the neurons of the brain to death.

The FDA agreed with Dr. Olney and  not only would not approve aspartame but 
they asked that Searle, the original manufacturer be indicted.  Both U.S. 
Prosecutors hired on with the defense team and the statute of limitations 
expired.  Still the FDA would not allow aspartame on the market for 16 
years.  This is when Don Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, was CEO of Searle 
and said he would call in his markers and get it approved anyway.   This is 
in the Congressional Record and UPI Investigation on web.  No wonder 
aspartame disease is many times referred to as Rumsfeld Disease.

How would you like to walk into a room of the real experts on aspartame and 
get nothing but the truth?  Get to see the suffering of the victims and 
even the wife of Charles Fleming who died of aspartame, in prison sentenced 
to 50 years for poisoning her husband with methanol.  Aspartame liberates 
free methyl alcohol, classified as a narcotic.  Several doctors have seen 
the autopsy and written affidavits  it was aspartame that murdered her 
husband.  If you care about the victims suffering horrendous reactions from 
Wrigley's simply  email cori@soundandfuryproductions.com  Get the Aspartame 
Documentary, Sweet Misery:  A Poisoned World.

In this movie you will get to see Doctors Roberts, Blaylock, Bowen, Walton, 
and even hear Dr. Olney's work discussed.  You will hear the real story of 
Aspartame approval from James Turner, Attorney, himself.  He will tell you 
how Don Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team.  The day after 
President Reagan took office he appointed Arthur Hull Hayes as commissioner 
of the FDA to approve aspartame, since no other FDA Commissioner would 
allow it on the market.  But President Reagan knew it might take 30 days to 
get Hayes to the FDA and the current FDA Commissioner might make it 
impossible  to have aspartame approval brought up again.  So President 
Reagan actually wrote AN EXECUTIVE ORDER making the current FDA 
Commissioner powerless to do anything about aspartame until Hayes got 
there.  When he did the FDA set up a Board of Inquiry of the best 
scientists they had.  This Board decided aspartame was not safe and caused 
brain tumors and revoked the petition for approval.  But Hayes was there to 
approve aspartame and he simply over-ruled the Board of Inquiry.  Then he 
went to work for the PR Agency of the manufacturer for $1000.00 a day and 
has refused to talk to the press ever since.

And this is how aspartame got approved.  Needless to say, pharmaceutical 
and chemical companies have bottomless checkbooks, and in the case of 
aspartame politics instead of science was used to get this addictive poison 
approved, a deadly drug masquerading as an additive and completely 
illegal.  The law in this country states  an additive must be inert or 
non-reactive.  It can't be a drug that fills a 1000 page medical text with 
symptoms and diseases and destroys the central nervous system, immune 
system, brain and optic nerve and ravages every organ in the body, as 
aspartame does.

Dr. James Bowen told the FDA (letter on labeling on 
www.dorway.com)  aspartame is mass poisoning of the American public and 
more than 70+ countries of the world - today 100.  And so the new movie 
shows you what a poisoned world looks like.  See the suffering of the 
victims and know every time you tell a consumer that aspartame is safe you 
are being part of causing this suffering on these people.

So what are you going to do?  I would start with apologizing to this lady 
you wrote for giving standard propaganda instead of the truth.  What would 
I do in your place?  Armed with documented information that aspartame is a 
killer I would tell the company remove it or I'm out of here.  It takes 
integrity do this.  If you want to continue this job of lying to the public,
you'll one day answer to God.  "Deliver those being taken away to death and 
those staggering to the slaughter.  O may you hold them back.  In case you 
should say 'Look!  We did not know of this' will not He that is making an 
estimate of the hearts discern it and pay back to earthlin man according to 
his activity?"  Proverbs 24:11

I've been doing this for 13 years as Founder of Mission Possible at my 
expense, because you see I know.  And now you know.  I'm not an aspartame 
victim.  I simply don't believe the government and industry has the right 
to lie to the public and cause sickness and death.  As the scripture points 
out; we must warn.

Below I have pasted in an article by Dr. Roberts published in Townsend 
Letter for Doctors that goes into the dangers of aspartame gum.   DO NOT 
lie again to a consumer.  Aspartame is not safe.  Read the FDA audit on 
http://www.dorway.com, the Bressler Report.  I personally spoke to Jerome 
Bressler who wrote it, and thanked him for getting out the truth about this 
neurotoxin.  He told me it was much worse than this report as the FDA 
removed the 20% that was the most damming.  He also told this to Doctors 
Roberts and Blaylock.  Dr. Roberts wrote his congressman to get the report 
and the FDA refused to give it them.

In Congress, Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, FDA toxicologist, said  all studies on 
aspartame were built on a foundation of sand and should be thrown out.  FDA 
toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross told Congress that aspartame violated the 
Delaney Amendment which forbid putting something in food you know will 
cause cancer, and aspartame without a shadow of a doubt can cause brain 
tumors and brain cancer.  Of course, it also triggered mammary, testicular, 
ovarian, pancreatic and thyroid tumors.  Dr. Gross' last words to Congress 
were:  "And if the FDA violates its own laws who is left to protect the 
public."  We are now taking case histories for seizures and brain tumors 
triggered by aspartame  for class action, especially in New York and New 
Jersey.  And yes, we will get it off the market.  Reformulate now!

Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible International, 9270 River Club 
Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097  USA   770 
242-2599   http://www.wnho.net  and http://www.dorway.com   24 page 
booklets on aspartame, Artificially Sweetened Times, for distribution - 
contact www.idaho-observer.com

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:00:55 -0500




THE POTENTIAL HAZARD OF ASPARTAME ABSORPTION FROM WITHIN THE MOUTH

By H. J. Roberts, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.C.C.P.
E-Mail: <mailto:HJrobertsmd@aol.com>HJrobertsmd@aol.com
(c)2004 by H. J. Roberts, M.D.




<http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_absorption.htmaspartamenews.htm>Aspartame




Posted 28 June 2004


Aspartame disease is being increasingly encountered in medical practice. 
(1-4) Over two-thirds of the population currently consumes the chemical 
aspartame, most commonly, as "diet" sodas and "sugar-free" products. I have 
detailed the serious neurological, psychiatric, metabolic, endocrine 
allergic and addictive aspects of this affliction. (1-5)

The widespread consumption of popular aspartame products that can be 
absorbed from the mouth and oropharynx should be cause for concern. They 
include gum, mouthwashes, chewable drugs and vitamins, and rectangular 
"mouth-freshener" strips placed on the tongue. Sugar-free mints are 
recommended for low-carbohydrate dieters who experience bad breath.

The prompt and predicable recurrence of symptoms (e.g., headache, 
dizziness, seizures, confusion, visual features, joint pain) on initial 
exposure or rechallenge to aspartame in this manner has been impressive. 
These issues are relevant.

    * Persons tend to chew aspartame gum up to five times longer than 
regular gum.
    * The prompt absorption of this neurotoxin from the mouth and 
oropharynx, with direct transport to the brain by a unique pathway, has 
clinical confirmation. (see below)
    * These products can create an intense craving for sweets due to 
increased insulin secretion.
    * The potential for addiction, related largely to the methyl alcohol 
component of aspartame, is significant. Scores of patients experienced 
severe withdrawal reactions after abrupt cessation.
    * The response of a previously well woman illustrates this issue. "I 
suffered a grand mal seizure watching a movie immediately after applying a 
Listerine Strip. My friend gave me the strip, and it's the last thing I 
remember. Apparently, I stiffened up, my eyes rolled back in my head, and I 
bit my tongue and drooled. I regained awareness 1/2 hour later as I was 
being unloaded from the ambulance. A CAT scan, an MRI, blood work and other 
tests were all inconclusive."

Persons at high risk for aspartame reactions ought to be warned against 
using these products. They include pregnant women, children and patients 
with seizures, migraine, diabetes, hypoglycemia and weight disorders.

References:

    * Roberts HJ Reactions attributed to aspartame containing producs: 551 
cases. J appl Nutr l988; 40:86-94.
    * Robert HJ. Aspartame (NutraSweet): Is It Safe? Philadelphia, The 
Charles Press, l989.
    * Roberts HJ, Sweet'ner Dearest: Bittersweet Vignettes About Aspartame 
(NutraSweet) West Palm Beach, Sunshine Sentinel Press, l992.
    * Robert HJ, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, West Palm Beach, 
Sunshine Sentinel Press, 2001.
    * Roberts HJ. Aspartame (NutraSweet) addiction. Townsend Letter for 
Doctors 2000: 198 (January): 52-57.
H. J. Roberts, MD FACP
Palm Beach Institute For Medical Research
P. O. Box 17799
West Palm Beach, Florida 33416 USA

Note from <http://www.wnho.net/bio-bmartini.htm>Dr. Betty Martini:

Please note we have notified Wrigley for years about the information Dr. 
Roberts has reported for this published article. Rather than remove 
aspartame from their gum they have now put this toxin in almost all their 
gums, and mixed with other unsafe sweeteners like acesulfame potassium 
(caused cancer and leukemia in original studies) and sucralose or Splenda 
which has a chlorinated base like DDT and can cause autoimmune disease. ( 
<http://www.wnho.net>http://www.wnho.net (click on aspartame) and 
<http://www.dorway.com>http://www.dorway.com ).

We have also notified Pfizer maker of the Listerine Strips since they came 
out that consumers were reporting seizures including kids, along with other 
adverse reactions on the FDA list of 92 symptoms. They won't even answer my 
emails anymore.

Wrigley's and Pfizer have now been sued over poisoning the public with 
Aspartame.

Dr. Roberts books and tapes can be gotten by going to 
<http://www.sunsentpress.com>httyp://www.sunsentpress.com or calling 
1-800-827-7991. See Dr. Roberts in the new film on aspartame called Sweet 
Misery: A Poisoned World! Click here for more information - 
<http://www.wnho.net/sweet_misery_movie.htm>CLICK HERE


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>From: bstrang@wrigley.com.au
>Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:09:26 +1000
>Dear Mrs Bouman,
>
>Thank you for contacting The Wrigley Company. We always appreciate hearing
>from our consumers and we are happy to answer any queries you may have.
>
>Please  be assured that The Wrigley Company maintains its high product
>quality standards by using only those ingredients that have been approved
>by both National and International Food Authorities. These independent
>regulatory bodies are established to protect the health and wellbeing of
>consumers and all ingredients are extensively tested before approval is
>granted.  It is based upon this approval that we are confident in the
>safety of all ingredients used in our chewing gum products. FSANZ (Food
>Standards Australia New Zealand ) is the regulatory body in Australia.
>
>The Wrigley Company utilises the high intensity sweetener, Aspartame, in a
>number of its products - as the primary sweetener in some of our sugarfree
>brands and as a flavour enhancer in some of our sugar-sweetened brands.  As
>an ingredient, Aspartame has the added benefit of providing an especially
>long-lasting flavour.
>
>Thank you for contacting The Wrigley Company. If you have any further
>questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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>Yours sincerely,
>THE WRIGLEY COMPANY PTY LIMITED
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>Bernadette Strang
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