Neotame- The New Aspartame

[Billiam]

USDA Certified Organic’s Dirty Little Secret: Neotame
Barbara H. Peterson on December 31st, 2010


Just when we thought that buying “Organic” was safe, we run headlong into the deliberate poisoning of our organic food supply by the FDA in collusion with none other than the folks who brought us Aspartame. NutraSweet, a former Monsanto asset, has developed a new and improved version of this neurotoxin called Neotame.

Full article http://farmwars.info/

Billy

[Tea]

First time I hear of Neotame.

Looks like it received approval back in 2002 but the labeling issue is recent.


http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/monsantos-neotame-molecule-allowed-in-usda-certified-organic-foods/

From the above article:

In 1998, Monsanto applied for FDA approval for a monster molecule, “based on the aspartame formula” with one critical addition: 3-dimethylbutyl [listed on EPA's most hazardous chemical list]. Neotame is touted as being 13,000 times sweeter than sugar.

On July 5, 2002 – Monsanto’s Neotame molecule was approved by the US FDA over formally registered objections of the Aspartame Consumer Safety Network and others. (Long term effects on humans are unknown.) Read the full release on The Aspartame Consumer Safety Network.

The food labeling requirements required for aspartame have now been dropped for Neotame, and no one is clear why this was allowed to happen. Neotame has been ruled acceptable, and without being included on the list of ingredients, for:

1.USDA Certified Organic food items.
2.Certified Kosher products with the official letter k inside the circle on labels.

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Some reports from 2002:
http://www.mindfully.org/Food/Neotame-Sweetener-Approved-FDA5jul02.htm

[conk]

One of the best anti-Aspartame sites is http://www.dorway.com

[Corncrake]

Thank you for posting this. It is horrifying - they never give up. I was just getting used to finding Aspartame turning up in non-diet foods and now this. I wonder if it is the UK yet.

[buffski]

hey corncrake. Not only is it in the UK, it's in the whole of Europe. The borders have come down over here as they will over the pond pretty soon. The visible chiefs are getting ever harder to locate over here....they are fast blurring the distinction between themselves and the invisible ones.
Here is an article on the European sanction of NEOTAME...the 'new' way to 'tame' the herd!!!!!

http://www.euroinvestor.co.uk/news/story.aspx?id=10818144&bw=20100107006050

the only way to avoid this non-labelled poison is to never go near a single processed food, eat local produce and shut the front door.

[witchy1]

Speechless!!!!!!!!!!

[witchy1]

H.J. ROBERTS, M.D., FACP, FCCP6708 PAMELA LANEWEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA 33405 (561) 588-7628 DIPLOMATE, AMERICAN BOARD OF FAX (561) 547-8008 INTERNAL MEDICINE (RECERTIFIED)
[Handwritten letter transcribed by mindfully.org]


April 7, 1999
Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305)
Food and Drug Administration
5630 Fishers Lane
Room 1061
Rockville, MD 20852
Dear Sirs,
You have received my previous letters of March 3, 1998 and February 25, 1999, expressing my extreme professional opposition to the approval of Neotame as an all-purpose sweetener (copies of both are enclosed) without further data.
This correspondence is prompted by my analysis of Monsanto's "Environmental Assessment," dated December 17, 1998, which I have just read today. I am troubled by its shortcomings, based on my 15-year interest and researches on its analog, aspartame. In view of the deadline of April 10, 1999, I am writing my criticisms as a supplement to my prior letters. They only can be summarized here.

I. Environmental Impact
I believe that there is a potentially significant impact that cannot be necessarily shown by the rat and dog studies, or in the extremely short (13 weeks) tests on healthy subjects.
Contrary to the Monsanto submission, I have considerable data that point to aspartame being toxic, mutagenic, carcinogenic, diabetogenic and teratogenic. These assertions stem in part from the experience of over 1,200 (!) aspartame reactions in my own database.

II Animal Testing
It is a gross error to project the animal studies onto humans where the massive consumption of this chemical is envisioned. (Currently, over half of the population consumes aspartame products.) For example, these species metabolize phenylalamine 4-5 times faster than humans. Moreover, phenylalamine concentrates much more on the fetal side of the placenta, and readily crosses the blood-brain barrier to affect the fetus brain.
Comparable arguments could be made for aspartic acid and methanol, which I have addressed in many publications.

IV. Diabetics
The assertion that aspartame/neotame does not affect glycemic control is WRONG ! As a Board-certified internatl and endocrinologist, I have repeatedly found that aspartame products aggravate both diabetes control and its complications--and have written on this subject. My requests of corporate-sponsored researchers in this realm to justify their published "negative" conclusions have not been answered.

V. "Small Amounts"
It is erroneous to assume that "a dietary concentration of less than 10ppb [parts per billion] of each minor degradant. . ." is innocuos. From my work on pesticides, there are several molecules in each cell even in parts per trillion.

CONCLUDING COMMENTS
I am a totally corporate-neutral physician who is concerned about the ongoing exposure of the population to aspartame and numerous other chemicals that were approved without adequate long-term pertinent studies by corporate-neutral investigative and politically-neutral regulators.
Let me repeat: it will be a public health tragedy if the aspartame problem is allowed to be repeated in the absence of these safeguards !


Yours truly,
H.J. Roberts, MD
2 enclosures
[for complete handwritten letter please see http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dailys/041299/c00001.pdf 6jul02]

[Flash]

thanks for the information Billiam. It is important to note as well that no diabetic should ever use any artificial sweetener. It would have the same impact on the brain as if you were using sugar and may have you increase your weight instead of losing some.
I am really sorry this has been approved all over the planet, however, for Canadian, it has to be listed on the label as a food ingredient. At least we know where it is and we have the choice to consume or not.

http://www.gazette.gc.ca/archives/p2/2007/2007-08-22/html/sor-dors176-eng.html

[Merkaba360]

It never ends.

Who designed this evolutionary process anyway? So, by the time we achieve mass awakening, we will all be crippled enjoying our utopia society!? Sigh