Aspartame: UK Parliamentarian Calls For Ban

For those who follow such health issues, this is not new news; for those who are not yet aware, this is. Rumsfeld seems pretty active in the medical money tree; he also is involved in the making of Tamiflu, a supposed antidote to the much hyped "Bird Flu".

Aspartame: UK Parliamentarian Calls For Ban

According to a recent article in The Guardian, Roger Williams, a UK Member of Parliament, called for emergency action to ban the artificial sweetener Aspartame, questioning its safety. The MP said that there was "compelling and reliable evidence for this carcinogenic substance to be banned from the UK food and drinks market altogether". A second article in the same issue of The Guardian reminds us how aspartame was approved by Donald Rumsfeld calling in "political markers" to override the doubts of the FDA's scientists. No honest reassessment of the science on aspartame was attempted as country after country followed the FDA's lead and approved the chemical sweetener. Consumers did and do report many untoward side effects, but apparently there is no mechanism in the FDA to follow up, analyse or investigate such consumer complaints. Betty Martini has been collecting the information, all available on dorway.com and who.net. Several books detail the dangers of the sweetener, but it seems that - barring widespread public protests - there may be no way to get health authorities to break their 'conspiracy of silence'. Aspartame seems pretty much unassailable. Well, a Member of Parliament in the UK takes up arms against the monster and calls for action.

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