New Mexico and Aspartame

WE ARE VERY CLOSE TO GETTING THIS POISON BANNED. THE DOOR HAS OPENED IN NEW MEXICO AND IF ONE STATE GOES FOR IT, WELL.....MAYBE THEY WILL ALL FOLLOW. PLEASE READ AND SEE WHAT YOU CAN DO.


Aspartame Industry Front Group, Calorie Control Council's Legal Objections to

New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board's consideration of Aspartame

Neurotoxicity, leading to a ban of it in food products.



We need to ask Aspartame and Thimerosal experts, victims, and activists ALL

OVER THE WORLD to examine this document prepared by and for the industry

front group, Calorie Control Council, especially for those who are lawyers or

have lawyer friends who might offer their insights to defeat these brazen

mongers of toxicity in the regulatory arena. In the considerations by the

Pharmacy Board of New Mexico, Aspartame and Thimerosal are linked together as

neurotoxic additives to medications which must be prohibited by adding an

additional chapter to the New Mexico Adminstrative Code, pertaining

thereunto.

Industry looks at it this way: Shoot one hearing on one neurotoxin down, and

you have a better chance at the other....



As you will immediately recognize, the July '06 New Mexico Environmental

Improvement Board Aspartame hearings are not going to be a "walk in the

park," since Ajinomoto of Japan [world's largest aspartame and Monosodium

Glutamate manufacturer] has hired a top FDA related law firm in Washington

D.C., as well as the largest law firm in New Mexico, the Rodey Firm, and CCC

has hired the second largest law firm in NM, Montgomery and Andrews.



Our efforts have thus far most certainly benefited from the pro bono efforts

by Stevan Looney of the Sutin Firm in Albuquerque, but he cannot continue to

work pro bono, given the enormous amount of preparation which will be

essential to be victorious, especially facing down the legal fire power

already surfacing from the Aspartame industry.



And why this fire power from the aspartame corporations? They recognize that

their dominoes are beginning to fall, and we have proven to be the most

effective here in New Mexico at toppling the first regulatory defense, by

proving that aspartame falls under New Mexico relevant statutes as:

neurotoxic, an adulterant, poisonous, deleterious, and misbranded. This will

become the manufacturer's nightmare! Especially if New Mexico leads the

way to the inevitable product liability suits regarding aspartame, perhaps

from Attorneys General, perhaps from private plaintiff lawyers, whoever wakes

up to this first....



The very immediate concern at hand is whether the Attorney General of New

Mexico, Patrica Madrid, is going to issue a formal Opinion as to whether both

boards, the Environmental Improvement Board and the Board of Pharmacy, can

move forward with what industry would like to be perceived as a federally

preempted area, due to the FDA approval of their product, Aspartame.



To weigh in on this important consumer protection upheaval going on in New

Mexico, please write to the following officials, ask them to stand strong on

these questions of neurotoxicity and FDA approved products, and ask for them

to send you a reply:



The Honorable William Blaine Richardson

Governor of New Mexico

4th Floor, The Capitol

Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501

(505) 827-3000



The Honorable Patricia Madrid

Attorney General of New Mexico

2nd Floor, Bataan Building

Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501

(505) 828-6000



The Honorable Stuart Bluestone

Deputy Attorney General of New Mexico

2nd Floor, Bataan Building

Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501

(505) 827-6004



Thank you very much,



Stephen Fox

Founder, New Mexico Nutrition Council

217 W. Water St.

Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501


"For the health of it!"


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Anyone who has had conversations with me knows where I stand on the artifical sweetner bandwagon. Operative word here folks.... ARTIFICIAL! K? I've seen people take longer to pick out a two hour movie than they do to question what they open their mouths and add to their bodies. Artifical, cumulative, breaks down into formaldehyde among other things. Sip from the preserved frogs for discetion anyone?