ASPARTAME LAWSUITS ACCUSE MANY
COMPANIES OF POISONING THE PUBLIC.

 Defendants in the lawsuits includeCoca-cola, PepsiCo, Bayer Corp., the Dannon Company, William Wrigley Jr. Company, Walmart, ConAgra Foods, Wyeth, Inc., The NutraSweet Company, andAltria Corp. (parent company of Kraft Foods and Philip Morris).

Lawsuits were filed in three separate California courts against twelve companies who either produce or use the artificial sweetener aspartame asa sugar substitute in their products. The suits were filed in Shasta,  Sonoma and Butte County, California.

The suits allege that the food companies committed fraud and breach of
warranty by marketing products to the public such as diet Coke, diet
Pepsi, sugar free gum, Flintstone's vitamins, yogurt and children's
aspirin with the full knowledge that aspartame, the sweetener in them, is
neurotoxic.

Aspartame is a drug masquerading as an additive. It interacts with other
drugs, has a synergistic and additive effect with MSG, and is a chemical
hyper-sensitization agent. As far back as 1970, Dr. John Olney founded
the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity when he did studies on
aspartic acid, which makes up 40% of aspartame, and found it caused
lesions in the brains of mice. He made world news on the aspartame/brain
tumor connection in l996. Dr. Ralph Walton, Professor and Chairman of the

Department of Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of
Medicine has written of the behavioral and psychiatric problems triggered
by aspartame-caused depletion of serotonin.

Aspartame causes headache, memory loss, seizures, vision loss, coma and
cancer. It worsens or mimics the symptoms of such diseases and conditions
as fibromyalgia, MS, lupus, ADD, diabetes, Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue
and depression.

Aspartame liberates free methyl alcohol. The resulting chronic methanol
poisoning affects the dopamine system of the brain causing addiction.
Methanol, or wood alcohol, constitutes one-third of the aspartame
molecule and is classified as a severe metabolic poison and narcotic.

Recent news is full of reports of world-class athletes and other healthy
consumers of aspartame suddenly dropping dead. Sudden death can occur
from
aspartame use because it damages the cardiac conduction system.

Dr. Woodrow Monte in the peer reviewed journal, Aspartame: Methanol and
the Public Health, wrote: "When diet sodas and soft drinks, sweetened
with aspartame, are used to replace fluid loss during exercise and physical
exertion in hot climates, the intake of methanol can exceed 250 mg/day or

32 times the Environmental Protection Agency's recommended limit of
consumption for this cumulative poison."

The effects of aspartame are documented by the FDA's own data. In 1995
the agency was forced, under the Freedom Of Information Act, to release a
list of ninety-two aspartame symptoms reported by thousands of victims. This
is only the tip of the iceberg. H. J. Roberts, MD, published the medical
text "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" -- 1,000 pages of symptoms and
diseases triggered by this neurotoxin including the sordid history of its
approval.

Since its discovery in 1965, controversy has raged over the health risks
associated with the sugar substitute. From laboratory testing of the
chemical on rats, researchers have discovered that the drug induces brain

tumors. On Sept 30, l980 the Board of Inquiry of the FDA concurred and
denied the petition for approval. In l981, the newly appointed FDA
Commissioner, Arthur Hull Hayes, ignored the negative ruling and approved
aspartame for dry goods. As recorded in the Congressional Record of 1985,
then CEO of Searle Laboratories Donald Rumsfeld said that he would call
in his markers to get aspartame approved. Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's
transition team and a day after taking office appointed Hayes. No FDA
Commissioner in the previous sixteen years had allowed Aspartame on the
market.

In 1983, aspartame was approved for use in carbonated beverages. Today it
is found in over 5000 foods, drinks and medicines.

Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, MD, author of "Excitotoxins: The Taste
That Kills" (http://www.russellblaylockmd.com) wrote about the relationship
between aspartame and macular degeneration, diabetic blindness and
glaucoma (all known to result from excitotoxin accumulation in the
retina).

All of these neurodegenerative diseases are worsened by aspartame. In
addition, we now have evidence that excitotoxins play a major role in
exacerbation of MS and other demyelinating disorders including trigeminal
neuraliga. Blaylock says that new studies show excitotoxins trigger
significant elevation of free radicals in the lining (endothelial cells)
of arteries, which means that aspartame will increase the incidence of
heart attacks and strokes (atherosclerosis).

In original studies, aspartame has triggered brain, mammary, uterine,
ovarian, testicular, thyroid and pancreatic tumors.

Plaintiffs have asked for an injunction to stop companies from producing,
manufacturing, processing, selling or using aspartame.

Plaintiffs in all three cases are seeking a jury trial.If you would like to schedule someone from the National Justice Leaguefor an interview, please call or fax us at 208-246-1171.

Roberta Bellon, Public Relations

NATIONAL JUSTICE LEAGUE
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Redding, Ca 96002
Phone: 208-246-1171
California: 530-248-3483
Cell Phone: 208-890-0034
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FOR INFORMATION ON ASPARTAME:
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You can also contact Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible Intl,
9270 River Club Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097 USA 770-242-2599

This release is issued by courtesy of:WORLD NATURAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION
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Betty Martini
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