Originally published February 22 2006
Aspartame ban bill introduced in New Mexico legislature
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Dr. Betty Martini relates information about the bills introduced in the New Mexico legislature that would effectively ban the sale of the artificial sweetener aspartame.
Bills to ban Neurotoxic Carcinogenic Artificial Sweetener Aspartame Advance in New Mexico Legislature, the bills that will precipitate a new era of Consumer Protection in the USA!
Albuquerque Democrat, Ortiz y Pino, and Gallup Navajo Democrat, Irvin Harrison, have introduced legislation that clearly moves New Mexico forward in terms of protecting citizens' health from this neurodegenerative sweetener, resulting from the complete breakdown in sound approval functions at the US FDA going back to 1981 and 1983, no more clearly exemplified than in the case artificial sweetener, Aspartame.
I believe that these bills are within the conceptual matrix not only of Governor Richardson's Year of the Child and Healthy Kids legislative initiatives, but also they are consistent within a deeper philosophical context of the Governor's views that because the FDA "isn't doing anything," every state needs to take back and to exercise some of the power ceded earlier to the Federal level, going back to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration in the Roosevelt era.
Soft drink companies would be smarter not to fight efforts to achieve freedom from neurotoxic multipotentially carcinogenic sweetener additives, and just immediately switch to a non-toxic harmless natural sweetener like Stevia.
Indeed, conversations between Coca Cola's lobbyist and Vice President of New Mexico operations and me occurred January 17, in which I recommended precisely such a course of action to the CEO, President, and Chairman of the Board of Coca Cola, relayed by the lobbyist to them.
Hoping to hide behind their product's FDA approval, industry lobbyists and corporate lawyers will bitterly complain to legislative committees that any state action to ban an incontrovertibly proven neurotoxic multipotential carcinogen like aspartame is automatically preempted by the Supremacy Clause and the Interstate Commerce Clause in the Constitution.
Lobbyists will fight this legislation right up to the ink drying as (we hope) they are signed by Governor Richardson.
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