Hawaii Moves to Ban Aspartame

Hawaiian Legislative Efforts to Ban Aspartame, Artificial Sweetener
Regarding bills in the Hawaii Legislative session to Ban Artificial sweetener and neurotoxin, Aspartame, House Bill 2680 and Senate Bill 2506
Stephen Fox of Santa Fe, Managing Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News and prime New Mexico moving force behind the legislative efforts to ban aspartame, commented on the great consumer progress implicit in these two bills in Hawaii:
This is wonderful news coming from Hawaii; the Legislators and their bill drafters saw the merit in keeping almost all of the same language from the 2006 and 2007 New Mexico bills, especially regarding the states' rights and their obligation to protect citizens health, which are not "pre-empted by massive failures at the FDA.
These New Mexico bills were overwhelmed and eviscerated in New Mexico by some of the most vicious corporate lobbyists I have ever encountered, representing Ajinomoto of Japan, the world's largest manufacturer of both aspartame and MSG, as well as their duped American corporate henchmen/partners-in-poisoning who use massive amounts of Aspartame, like Coca Cola, Pepsi, Altria/Kraft Corporate Services, and others. The same corporations and even more will show up in Honolulu, make no mistake! Probably to include Wrigley's Gum, all of whose products contain aspartame, which is metabolized as methanol and formaldehyde.
These corporations have everything to lose if such bills advance and ultimately lead to the inevitable product liability and personal injury suits from those damaged by aspartame, which number in the hundreds of millions, despite their corporate serving propaganda and lies.
My profoundest appreciation goes to the numerous fine Hawaii activists who brought up these imperative issues, and to the Legislators, Senator J. Kalani English (Chairman of the Transportation and International Affairs Committee), and Rep. Calvin Say (Speaker of the House), at the request of Rep. Mele Carroll, all 3 Democrats who see the merit and need to protect the health of all Hawaiians, no matter what duplicity is perpetuated by the top brass and corporate lackeys at the FDA. The Senate Bill is also cosponsored by Suzanne Chun-Oakland, Chairperson of the Senate Human Services Committee, and we sincerely commend these fine legislators for this pre-emptive and protective legislation.
Let's hope a few other legislators in other states recognize the importance of this, and that the FDA Commissioner, Dr. Andrew Von Eschenbach, chooses not to ignore this urgent initiative, now coming from Hawaii, as he chose to ignore the same effort in New Mexico as well as the letters signed by 21 New Mexico Legislators asking him to immediately rescind the approval for this neurotoxic poison found in 6000 food products.
It is my deepest hope that Hawaii Legislators don't capitulate to corporate-serving theories advanced by the corporate lobbyists that states do not have neither the right nor the power nor the obligation to challenge any kind of Federal authority, like an FDA pronouncement.
When aspartame's history of approval is examined, it will be clear that the FDA Commissioner at the time in 1981, Arthur Hull Hayes, was under a strong influence to approve this chemical, no matter who objected from the medical and scientific community, because the guy from the Reagan "transition team" who gave him the job, Donald Rumsfeld, had been CEO of the aspartame manufacturer, G.D. Searle. Rummy made $25 million off this deal alone!
Stephen Fox
Founder, New Millennium Fine Art
Managing Editor, Santa Fe Sun News

Stephen Fox wrote:

Hawaiian Legislative Efforts to Ban Aspartame, Artificial Sweetener
Regarding bills in the Hawaii Legislative session to Ban Artificial sweetener and neurotoxin, Aspartame, House Bill 2680 and Senate Bill 2506
Stephen Fox of Santa Fe, Managing Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News and prime New Mexico moving force behind the legislative efforts to ban aspartame, commented on the great consumer progress implicit in these two bills in Hawaii:
This is wonderful news coming from Hawaii; the Legislators and their bill drafters saw the merit in keeping almost all of the same language from the 2006 and 2007 New Mexico bills, especially regarding the states' rights and their obligation to protect citizens health, which are not "pre-empted by massive failures at the FDA.
These New Mexico bills were overwhelmed and eviscerated in New Mexico by some of the most vicious corporate lobbyists I have ever encountered, representing Ajinomoto of Japan, the world's largest manufacturer of both aspartame and MSG, as well as their duped American corporate henchmen/partners-in-poisoning who use massive amounts of Aspartame, like Coca Cola, Pepsi, Altria/Kraft Corporate Services, and others. The same corporations and even more will show up in Honolulu, make no mistake! Probably to include Wrigley's Gum, all of whose products contain aspartame, which is metabolized as methanol and formaldehyde.
These corporations have everything to lose if such bills advance and ultimately lead to the inevitable product liability and personal injury suits from those damaged by aspartame, which number in the hundreds of millions, despite their corporate serving propaganda and lies.
My profoundest appreciation goes to the numerous fine Hawaii activists who brought up these imperative issues, and to the Legislators, Senator J. Kalani English (Chairman of the Transportation and International Affairs Committee), and Rep. Calvin Say (Speaker of the House), at the request of Rep. Mele Carroll, all 3 Democrats who see the merit and need to protect the health of all Hawaiians, no matter what duplicity is perpetuated by the top brass and corporate lackeys at the FDA. The Senate Bill is also cosponsored by Suzanne Chun-Oakland, Chairperson of the Senate Human Services Committee, and we sincerely commend these fine legislators for this pre-emptive and protective legislation.
Let's hope a few other legislators in other states recognize the importance of this, and that the FDA Commissioner, Dr. Andrew Von Eschenbach, chooses not to ignore this urgent initiative, now coming from Hawaii, as he chose to ignore the same effort in New Mexico as well as the letters signed by 21 New Mexico Legislators asking him to immediately rescind the approval for this neurotoxic poison found in 6000 food products.
It is my deepest hope that Hawaii Legislators don't capitulate to corporate-serving theories advanced by the corporate lobbyists that states do not have neither the right nor the power nor the obligation to challenge any kind of Federal authority, like an FDA pronouncement.
When aspartame's history of approval is examined, it will be clear that the FDA Commissioner at the time in 1981, Arthur Hull Hayes, was under a strong influence to approve this chemical, no matter who objected from the medical and scientific community, because the guy from the Reagan "transition team" who gave him the job, Donald Rumsfeld, had been CEO of the aspartame manufacturer, G.D. Searle. Rummy made $25 million off this deal alone!
Stephen Fox
Founder, New Millennium Fine Art
Managing Editor, Santa Fe Sun News

If aspartame is banned in Hawaii---Listen up gang---It means no more Li Hing Mui..Auwe!

Rosey from Maui:

WHAT is Li Hing Mui, please, and is it not possible to make it without chemicals that are metabolized as methanol and formaldehyde that do such terrible damage and cause illnesses like brain cancer and multiple sclerosis? I look forward to your reply,

STEPHEN FOX wrote:

Rosey from Maui:
WHAT is Li Hing Mui, please, and is it not possible to make it without chemicals that are metabolized as methanol and formaldehyde that do such terrible damage and cause illnesses like brain cancer and multiple sclerosis? I look forward to your reply,

I am so sorry Stephen. Li Hing Mui is a Chinese preserved plum that we who were raised here in Hawaii have come to love. We eat it for a snack. Most of us have been eating it and other preserved fruit since we were knee high to a grasshopper. And most local people here live well into the 80's & 90's.
And in case you might be wondering I am not Chinese:)

It is an acquired taste, you know regional recipes and snack foods that you grow up with.
I am interested, is there a snack or recipe that you grew up with that I might not know about?
Our cuisine here is quite eclectic.
Although restaurants do not cook with MSG anymore because of the link to migraine headaches. My mother used it alot while I was growing up.

Do you have a link that I could go to?
I would like more information.

Can anyone tell me what the Santa Fe Sun News is? Other than numerous articles quoting Stephen Fox, a Google search doesn't show much at all-- and there doesn't appear to be a website associated with it. I am also aware of several legitimate newspapers (in Las Cruces and Silver City, to name two) with the name "Sun News" but I am unaware of one in Santa Fe.

MitchHellman wrote:

Can anyone tell me what the Santa Fe Sun News is? Other than numerous articles quoting Stephen Fox, a Google search doesn't show much at all-- and there doesn't appear to be a website associated with it. I am also aware of several legitimate newspapers (in Las Cruces and Silver City, to name two) with the name "Sun News" but I am unaware of one in Santa Fe.

I found it ---It is THE SUN NEWS located in Santa Fe, NM.

The web site gives phone numbers & also gives the contact phone #.

I just want a medical link for info.
But I think the DAMAGE has already been done---I have been eating Chinese seed all my life :)

i hope they do ban aspertame! i will not buy chewing gum anymore for the children. it all has it in it, or the name of it has been altered. i'm not giving my children drugs that can kill them.

I always SO ono for Li Hing Mui, but stay made in China...nah...nevah mind...
I remember Yick Lung, man those were da days...

HIDEO OSHIRO wrote:

[ASPARTAME HAS BEEN AN IMPORTANT FOOD ADDITIVE FOR NEARLY 100 YEARS. HIDEO OSHIRO, MD,FACS

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Aspartame was invented by a G.D. Searle & Company chemist in 1965.

And Aspartame was only initially approved in the US in 1981, but only for dry goods. Wider use of it was approved by the FDA in 1983.

The Santa Fe Sun News is not a real newspaper. It is a collection of essays on Fox's pet subjects, but listing it as an asset makes his resume seem to look good. I guess that is okay. Fox's efforts were noble, but his personality led to his running off many of the people who could have been most helpful to him, and he scorned the advice of many more politically savvy people in New Mexico who knew now to play the political game there in favor of enlisting the support of Betty Martini - who usually manages to run off any legitimate support and rely to on other nutcases like herself for support. In short, they had a good thing going and they fumbled the ball. Activists in Hawaii who wish to see their efforts go forward would do well to steer away from these people. They act like they are the all and everything of aspartame research, but, in fact, there is good reason to believe that Martini (who sports a phony doctorate given to her by a guy who was convicted of child molestation - which she denies even though she has actually seen the court documents that prove he was convicted) is actually making money off of all this, in the form of the tax write-offs her husband allegedly claims for her "activism" excursions, and also in the money that they most likely have invested in an artificial sweetener that they claim is safe and that is good for you - albeit the promotional material this company uses is full of false statements and contradictions.

The bottom line is that aspartame is toxic and it should be banned, but those who are attempting to ban it in Hawaii should be very careful about whose help they accept and whom they would do well to steer clear of. Remember, the New Mexico effort failed. They can shift the blame for that to whomever they want, but until they examine their own shortcomings and try to correct them, they have little to offer in the way of advice to those who wish to - unlike them - succeed at this effort.

Mcdonalds should be banned.

HIDEO OSHIRO wrote:

[ASPARTAME HAS BEEN AN IMPORTANT FOOD ADDITIVE FOR NEARLY 100 YEARS. ESSENTIALLY BILLIONS OF PEOPLE WORLDWIDE, IN PARTICULAR ASIANS HAVE USED IT DAILY WITHOUT ILL EFFECTS. IN STEAD OF BANNING ASPARTAME WE SHOULD BAN FIREARMS.
CONSIDER: APPROXIMATELY 30,000 PEOPLE IN THE IS AR4E KILLED EVERY YEAR. I8N THE LAST 20 YEARS, ABOUT 500,000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED.
SHOULD WE NOT BAN FIRARMS INSTEAD OF ASPARTAME?
SINCERELY
HIDEO OSHIRO, MD,FACS

Obviously, I am a victim of aspartame poisoning. I have had almost 100 employees witness me having major convulsions at work in front of all. Including customers. This happened at a wal mart. Let me tell you this, upon discovery, aspartame has been blamed for my episode. Fire arms are not as leathal as poisons found in our food chains. Poisons in our food chains causes undesireable effects. Lets say weight gain, temper flares, along with effects of fybromalgia, along with destruction of nerve points in the brain. Please understand this, aspartame is an ingredient used in a deadly bomb. You need to research this before judging firearms. Thank you for reading.

I remember not too long ago (in the cosmic sense LOL) when I lived in Hawai'i, I ate Li Hing Mui just about every day!!! but of course, back then, it wasn't made with aspartame...and, now that I'm so far away and must order it online, I'm finding nowhere is it made without this killer chemical! I am saddened by that.

by the way, I do NOT live in Alma GA, wherever THaT is... LOL ... I'm in Northern Virginia, Washington DC area...