TVNZ Closeup Aspartame Segment - Media Spin and Lies

This is my edit of the Aspartame segment that aired on TVNZ Ch1 Closeup programme which featured Dr Bernadene Magnuson, of the "International Food Biotechnology Council" which is run by the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) which is a Washington-D.C. based lobby group funded by food, chemical and drug companies. Primarily it acts on behalf of the global food manufacturing industry, but it also includes operations involved with agriculture and genetic modification; pesticides and pharmaceuticals; confectionery; and even with such dubious consumables as cigarettes.However, its private agenda has often been designed to thwart attempts to regulate or reduce public exposure to many dangerous or environmentally-damaging substances. Its private interests are focussed on the financial benefits of its major backers the larger food companies and their trade associations.

This imbalance led, eventually, to the World Health Organization banning the organisation from direct involvement in WHO (and related agencies) activities. Also see how it caved in to G.D.Searle over Nutrasweet trials, and how it rejected two grant proposals in 1985 when a researcher raised questions about the sweeteners effects on children.[12] The researcher later commented that; "Theres an internal conflict of interest, when a company, which has profit at the bottom line, is charged with finding out the true safety of its product." 12.0 12.1 Gregory Gordon, "NutraSweet: Questions Swirl", UPI, 1987.

The ILSI also lobbies to promote the acceptance of genetic modification of foodstuffs, which is not particularly surprising since both Monsanto and Syngenta are on ILSI's governing board of trustees, and play a substantial role on many committees. (Monsanto make Aspartame)
Between 1983 and 1998 the ILSI provided assistance to the tobacco industry in its attempts to subvert many attempts at legislative control over the industry's activities. It was effective, because it represented itself as an independent and unbiased scientific body, with international (including World Health Organization) credentials. It was only interested in maintaining scientific standards in the debate over questions of smoking and health, it claimed.
This features Abby Cormack who has given talks on the dangers of Aspartame with Dr. Betty Martini of the website and group Mission Possible.
If you suffer strange side effects like numbness, tingling, poor memory headaches etc then google "aspartame side effects" and check it out. Thank you. Part two coming soon - once ive finished the edit, cheers PJ

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[mewrox99]

Aspartame is safe. Also the definition of toxin is a biologically created poison eg. snake venom not food additives

[awakekiwi]

Aspartame is a biologically created poison. Just because some government agency has approved it as a food additive does not make it safe. It was Rumsfeld who got it approved under highly suspicious circumstances. The FDA didnt want it approved and it took almost a decade of dirty dealing behind the scenes for Rumsfeld to to sack any FDA members who didnt approve of it until he finally got his wish (and a big payout). Watch documentary "Aspartame: sweet poison" to get the historical facts.

[mewrox99]

Isn't it man-made (synthetic) biologically created means it's naturally biosynthesized by plants animals or micro-organisms

[awakekiwi]

yes synthetic it is, a synthetic poison (because its harmful to biological life.) Aspartame is carcinogenic and mutagenic. Aspartame contains free-form methanol which then converts into formaldehye in the body which also occurs in nature and is toxic to biological life, but no it is not a toxin per se. Aspartame is a poison. This is documented.

[awakekiwi]

Dr. Morando Soffritti of the Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center, European Ramazzini Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences, has performed esteemed work on Aspartame. The Soffritti Studies demonstrate the most recent reputable research of the multipotential carcinogenic effects of aspartame administered in feed to Sprague-Dawley rats. Dr. Soffritti has proven aspartame is a carcinogen in two separate studies.

[awakekiwi]

part two is up!! see video response above.. chur

[Ferre01]

I am a Chemist and worked on the DSM factory in the Netherlands where Aspartane is produced. I would NEVER use it myself. Toluene is used in he production, a highly toxic and cancerous substance which leaves traces, that alone is reason enough for me to avoid it like the plague.

[Satarack]

@mewrox99

Finally, Methanol is widely known to be poisonous. Methanol will metabolize down into Formaldehyde, and further into formic acid. However, the aspartame industry tries to down play this in several ways. One common statement is that there is more methanol present in fruits than in aspartame. However this statement ignores the chemical state of methanol in fruits. In fruits, methanol is bound to pectin, and we have no enzymes capable of breaking this bound; so it leaves harmlessly.

[Satarack]

@NZScanner

See: Selective production of L-aspartic acid and L-phenylalanine by coupling reactions of aspartase and aminotransferase in Escherichia coli; Chao, Y.-P., Lo, T.-E., Luo, N.-S.

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@NZScanner

There's more than one way to synthesis chemicals, and there is more than one method of production as well, while more modern production methods using enzymatic catalyzed reactions, that does not mean that bacterial fermentation reactions don't exist. However, I just did some quick research, and you're right in a way. E.coli is not used to make aspartame directly. However it can be used to make aspartic acid and phenylaline.

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@mewrox99

Aspartic acid and Phenylaline are classified as excitotoxins. Excitotoxins are a part of your brain chemistry already, but exist in controlled quantities and are responsible for stimulating transmitters in your brain. However, too much stimulation of a receptor can literally cause neurons and nerves to excite themselves to death. Further, some people lack the gene necessary to metabolize phenylaline, and will have severe, acute reactions to aspartame.

[NZScanner]

@AnnoyedDragon

Cool Story Bro,

[NZScanner]

@Satarack

Microrganisms in them selfes are not used. An enzyme called Thermolysin from Bacillus thermoproteolyticus is used as a catalyst to condense the two amino acids to form the dipeptide. Since no organism naturally biosynthesizes Aspartame it is not a toxin.

The bit about biomass been digested is just plain fiction. An enzyme is extracted, purified and used as a catalyst. No biomass is used

[Satarack]

@mewrox99

Aspartame breaks down into two amino acids, apsartic acid, and phenylaline and methanol in the body. Aspartame itself is actually made through a biorefining process using E.Coli bacteria to digest biomass and convert it to Aspartame, making it a biologically created substance.