Hi Marshall,
Interesting point, you made a request to the EPA for Aspartame use as an ant
poison. (Rat Poison may have been more appropriate) The EPA might possibly have
considered Aspartame as a Ant Poison had you submitted the requisite science
(proving that it was an insecticide) and an environmental study showing that it
wasn't a threat (it breaks down into to naturally occurring amino acids found
in the environment.)
Do you have any positive experience with Aspartame and killing Ants?
Some observations:
Aspartame (a laboratory union of Aspartic Acid and Phenylalanine) is an FDA
approved food additive, an artificial sweetener. It is considered safe and
effective. Silver is barely tolerated under the DSHEA as a mineral supplement
and is neither considered safe and effective.
Aspartame is metabolized into its component parts of Aspartic Acid,
Phenylalanine after ingestion, and may generate methanol (eventually
formaldehyde) by hydrolysis under certain conditions during storage. However,a
glass of orange juice contains a magnitude greater quantity of methanol by
comparison.
Silver remains silver after leaving the body
Neither Aspartic Acid nor Phenylalanine are considered threats to the
environment.
Silver is now considered a potential threat to the environment
Monsanto owns Aspartame and could easily fight off any challenge, which is
unlikely. The CS retailers, wholesales, manufacturers, etc do not have the
resources.
(Monsanto purchased G. D. Searle the company that invented Aspartame. G. D.
Searle was the descendant company of the drug company founded by Dr A.B.
Searle, MD who wrote a book, The Use of Colloids in Health and Disease in 1919,
which includes using Colloidal Silver against a number of diseases, citing peer
review medical journals.)
It does not matter as to the form of Colloidal Silver (metal particle, ionic,
silver protein, etc) as all forms have been listed in a 200+ product list
submitted as part of the petition by CTA. Nano Silver Particles from EIS is
quite possible (Sovereign Silver fits this description and is on the list). The
petition concerns Nano Technology Silver.
Aspartame does not have have a coalition of Environmental Groups etc
petitioning the EPA to follow its own regulations on the subject of enforcement.
However, Aspartame info (which is far from safe):
After discovery in 1965, Aspartame had a long road to approval, interestingly
enough because of health safety issues.
Following safety testing, a debate as to whether these tests had indicated that
aspartame may cause cancer in rats. The FDA, which at that time was showing
some independence from big Pharma, unlike it is now, investigated Searle and
published a scathing, 76 page report uncovering the discrepancies,
inconsistencies, and evidence of fabrication of records in Searle's lab work.
They also performed their own autopsies on the remaining corpses of the rats
and found a large number of pathological conditions which were caused by the
aspartame but not reported by Searle in their analysis of the results. This is
known as the Bressler report. The Bressler Report compared all the available
raw data and summary data against the manufacturer's FDA submission and found
missing raw data, errors and discrepancies in available data, but later the FDA
would chose to ignore Bressler's report.
In essence the Bressler report dealt with Searle's shoddy job of covering up
the evidence. Lab rats turned up with brain tumors, atrophied testicles, and
other conditions and anomalies, and many of them began dying unexpectedly.This
report was subsequently buried and only recently obtained under the FOIA.
The U.S. FDA did not approve Aspartame's use as a food additive in the United
States at that time.
In 1980, the FDA convened a Public Board of Inquiry (PBOI) consisting of
independent advisers to reexamine Aspartame's risks. The PBOI concluded that
aspartame does not cause brain damage. The PBOI recommended against approving
aspartame citing unanswered questions about cancer in laboratory rats. At that
point in time, there was no requirement in place in FDA regulations to include
brain research in the approval process, only cancer research.
Searle's Chief Operating Officer, Donald Rumsfeld, reapplied for FDA
certification immediately after U.S. President Ronald Reagan took office. FDA
Commisioner, Jere E. Goyan, was removed from his post on the first day of
Ronald Reagan's presidency (1981).
Goyan had refused to approve the use of aspartame due to studies documenting
increase of cancers in rats.
President Ronald Reagan appointed Arthur Hull Hayes, MD as FDA Commissioner in
April 1981. In the same year Hayes approved aspartame as a food additive
against an FDA Public Board of Inquiry (PBOI) recommendation citing data from a
Japanese study that had not been available to the members of the PBOI, Hayes
approved aspartame for use in dry goods.(It is notable however that Hayes had
available results from a new Japanese study which the PBOI chairman later
claimed would have reversed his recommendation)
In 1983 FDA further approved aspartame for use in the lucrative diet carbonated
beverage market.
In November 1983 Hayes quit and joined Searle's public-relations firm
Burson-Marsteller as senior medical advisor. (Can we say "Revolving Door
Policy" ???)
Monsanto purchased Searle in 1985. Subsequently, the FDA approved Aspartame for
use in other beverages, baked goods, and confections in 1993. In 1996, the FDA
removed all restrictions from aspartame allowing it to be used in all foods.
Maybe if the CS sellers could enlist the help of Donald Rumsfeld there might be
a chance. (Tongue in Cheek)
Best Regards,
Steve Foss
I don't think this is anything new. I contacted the EPA some time ago
about selling aspartame as an ant poison and was told that it could not
be sold labeled that way since it was not proven safe. But they still
allow tons of it to be used in products. Also EIS is typically 90%
ionic, which is not being addressed, so likely it would be nothing more
than a labeling issue.
Marshall
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