Warning: Aspartame Causes Cancer And Is Poisioning Many People Daily

A very recent study on aspartame conducted by the Ramazzini Foundation discloses that aspartame causes a dose-dependent increase in many forms of cancer including lymphomas, leukemias and breast cancers when consumed at levels approaching those consumed by many average people in diet soft drinks. The results of this is not only confirm, but also reinforce the first experimental demonstration of aspartame's multipotential carcinogenicity at a dose level close to the acceptable daily intake for humans. Furthermore, the study demonstrates that when lifespan exposure to aspartame begins during fetal life, its carcinogenic effects are increased.

The study, entitled "Lifespan Exposure to Low Doses of Aspartame Beginning During Prenatal Life Increases Cancer Effects in Rats" has been accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), the most widely-read environmental science journal in the world. This is the second study conducted by the Ramizzini Foundation documenting the cancer-causing effects of aspartame in animals. Most people, when faced with such evidence, would ask the obvious question 1) "could aspartame also cause cancer in humans?" and 2) should we review the safety of aspartame just in case? Unfortunately virtually the entire health and medical system in the United States has no interest in these questions.

Following the publication of this study, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a statement flatly denying aspartame poses any safety risk whatsoever, and outright rejecting the idea that the safety or approval as a food ingredient should be reviewed at all. Specifically, FDA spokesperson Michael Herndon said, "…the FDA finds no reason to alter its previous conclusion that aspartame is safe as a general purpose sweetener in food." In other words, the FDA is not interested in any new science that might challenge a decision it already made.

As reported by the CSPI in a recent press release, According to a 1996 report in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the FDA rejected repeated proposals by NIEHS to test aspartame using more modern methods than were originally used. The FDA also rejected NIEHS's proposal to test acesulfame potassium, which CSPI says was "abysmally tested" by its manufacturer and showed signs of causing cancer in animals. The State of California, also, has urged new testing of aspartame. Clearly, the FDA only hears what it wants to hear when it comes to protecting the very profitable aspartame market. Since the very beginning, the FDA has done everything in its power to protect the aspartame industry, including denying approval for the natural herbal sweetener stevia as a way to suppress the competition and protect the market for corporate-manufactured chemical sweeteners like aspartame.

This latest study on aspartame and cancer caused the CSPI to issue a public press release calling for the FDA to review the study to determine whether aspartame is really safe. CSPI also downgraded its rating on aspartame and is now recommending that everyone should avoid using aspartame. With its stubborn refusal to even review the safety record on aspartame, the FDA seems to be shouting out loud, "We don't really care about the consumer in America!" The FDA has no intention of initiating anything resembling real scientific scrutiny on aspartame because aspartame was never proven safe in the first place. It was force-fed through the FDA's approval process based on distorted, junk science constructed to win approval for a chemical that would earn billions of dollars for powerful corporations. Aspartame has been poisoning Americans each and every day since it was approved and is to this day contributing to seizures, blindness, migraine headaches, vision problems, neurological disorders and possibly even cancers.