So far, USA print and broadcast media are deaf, blind, and dumb,
regarding recent major bans of aspartame and MSG in the UK and EU.

The EU Parliament voted July 12 to ban artificial sweeteners in newly
born and infant foods.

On May 15 four huge UK supermarket chains announced bans of aspartame
and MSG, food dyes, and many additives to protect kids from ADHD —
Sainsbury, Tesco, Marks & Spencer, and ASDA, a unit of WalMart.

May 31: Coca-Cola and the much larger Cargill Inc., after years of
secret development, with 24 patents, will soon sell rebiana (stevia)
in drinks and food in the many nations where it is approved as a
sweetener — for decades a major sweetener in Japan,  China , Korea,
Taiwan , Thailand, Malasia, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Brazil, Peru,
Paraguay, Uruguay, and Israel, and an approved supplement in USA,
Australia, and Canada, according to Wikipedia.

recent research and news re aspartame and stevia: Murray 2007.07.30
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Women who live near California farm fields sprayed with organochlorine
pesticides may be more likely to give birth to children with autism,
according to a study by state health officials to be published today.

The rate of autism among the children of 29 women who lived near the
fields was extremely high, suggesting that exposure to the
insecticides in the womb might have played a role. The study is the
first to report a link between pesticides and the neurological
disorder, which affects one in every 150 children.

But the state scientists cautioned that their finding is highly
preliminary because of the small number of women and children involved
and lack of evidence from other studies.

"We want to emphasize that this is exploratory research," said Dr.
Mark Horton, director of the California Department of Public Health.
"We have found very preliminary data that there may be an association.
We are in no way concluding that there is a causal relationship
between pesticide exposure of pregnant women and autism."

The two pesticides implicated are older-generation compounds developed
in the 1950s and used to kill mites, primarily on cotton as well as
some vegetables and other crops. Their volumes have declined
substantially in recent years.

Examining three years of birth records and pesticide data, scientists
from the Public Health Department determined that the Central Valley
women lived within 500 meters, or 547 yards, of fields sprayed with
organochlorine pesticides during their first trimester of pregnancy.
Eight of them, or 28%, had children with autism. Their rate of autism
was six times greater than for mothers who did not live near the
fields, the study said.

Susan Kegley, senior scientist of Pesticide Action Network North
America, a San Francisco-based advocacy group, said the report adds to
an existing body of evidence that endosulfan and dicofol, already
banned in some countries, are harmful.

"This is one of the first papers that links use of pesticide to
incidence of a disease, and autism in particular," she said. "The
findings are very strong. This is a sixfold risk factor in comparison
to someone who is not exposed. There aren’t too many studies that come
out like that."

Even though small numbers of children were involved, "it is still one
of those things that make you sit up and pay attention," she said.

The findings suggest that 7% of autism cases in the Central Valley
during the years studied – 1996 through 1998 – might have been
connected to exposure to the insecticides drifting off fields into
residential areas. Births during those years were analyzed because
children born later might not yet be diagnosed with autism.

Children with autism spectrum disorders have impaired social and
communication skills. The causes are unknown, but because diagnoses
have been increasing, scientists have been exploring various
environmental factors, including children’s vaccines and chemical
pollutants.

"The good news is we’ve used a new research technology to generate
hypotheses and possible associations, so we are making progress in the
battle to get more information" about the cause of autism, Horton
said.

The goal of the study was to "systematically explore the general
hypothesis that residential proximity to agricultural pesticide
applications during pregnancy could be associated with autism spectrum
disorders in offspring," the authors wrote in their study, published
online today in the scientific journal Environmental Health
Perspectives.

The scientists collected records of nearly 300,000 children born in
the 19 counties of the Sacramento and San Joaquin river valleys. Of
those children, 465 had autism. The scientists then compared the
addresses during pregnancy to state records that detailed the location
of fields sprayed with several hundred pesticides.

For most pesticides, no unusual numbers of autism cases were found,
but the exception was a class of compounds called organochlorines.
Most, including DDT, were banned in the United States several decades
ago because they were building up in the environment. Only dicofol and
endosulfan remain.

The autism rate was highest for children of those mothers who lived
the closest to the fields and it declined as the distance from the
fields increased.

There is no other human or animal evidence that the two chemicals can
cause autism. But both affect nerves and the brain – and cause
reproductive effects and alter hormones in animal tests. In addition,
dicofol is a possible human carcinogen.

The scientists concluded that "the possibility of a connection between
gestational exposure to organochlorine pesticides and autism spectrum
disorders requires further study."

A July report by the state Department of Pesticide Regulation said
endosulfan can spread far from fields via the air and expose the
public, based on air monitoring in Fresno, Monterey and Tulare
counties. The agency is likely to designate endosulfan as a toxic air
contaminant soon, and dicofol could follow. That designation triggers
a review by the agency to see whether steps should be taken to
minimize the chemicals drifting off fields into nearby communities.

Glenn Brank, spokesman for the pesticide agency, said officials there
are "very interested" in the new autism data but say that "more work"
on the potential link is needed before it can carry much weight in
assessments of the chemicals’ risks.

The two insecticides are now used much less often than in the years in
which the possible connection to autism was found. As a result, there
is less likelihood that pregnant women are exposed today. Nearly
774,000 pounds were applied in 1996, compared with 277,000 pounds in
2005, down nearly 64%, according to state records.

"In the past couple years, the bottom has dropped out of these two,"
Brank said.

Insects have built up resistance and cotton farmers have switched to
new compounds.

The two chemicals are not found in household or yard pesticides.
Traces are found in food, but the study looked only at possible
exposure from the air. The chemicals are used most extensively in
Fresno, Kings, Imperial and Tulare counties. Dicofol is mostly used on
cotton, oranges, beans and walnuts. Endosulfan is used primarily in
tomato processing and on lettuce, alfalfa and cotton crops.

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Fluoride supplements, in graduating amounts up to 1 mg daily, are
often prescribed to children who don’t drink fluoridated water,
ostensibly to reduce tooth decay.

"This review confirmed that in non-fluoridated communities the use of
fluoride supplements during the first 6 years of life is associated
with a significant increase in the risk of developing dental
fluorosis, write researchers Ismail & Bandekar and first published in
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, February 1999, (2) but
posted to the ADA’s website July 2007.

Fluoride ingestion, once thought to reduce cavities, can lead to
dental fluorosis – white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted tooth
enamel. Modern science indicates fluoride absorbs into tooth enamel
topically, primarily.(3)

Studies link dental fluorosis to children’s kidney damage (4) and bone
fractures (5).

The ADA and Centers for Disease Control recently advised that
fluoridated water should not be mixed into concentrated infant
formula, in order to decrease dental fluorosis risk – now a growing
U.S. problem. (6)

Never safety-tested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration) (7),
fluoride supplements do more harm than good.(8)

"While fluoride is proclaimed a significant cavity reducer, there is
little, if any, science to support that," says lawyer Paul Beeber,
President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation.

A National Institutes of Health 2001 news release supports Beeber’s
assertion: "… the (NIH) panel was disappointed in the overall
quality of the clinical data that it reviewed. According to the panel,
far too many studies were small, poorly described, or otherwise
methodologically flawed." (9) Over 560 studies evaluated fluoride
among those reviewed by the NIH Consensus Development Program panel
for the Diagnosis and Management of Dental Caries.

Recent research shows that fluoridation delivers risks with little, if
any, benefit.(10)

"Save money, save our health, save the planet. Stop fluoridation,"
says Beeber.

References:

1) http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/ebd/reviews/fluoride_supplements.asp

2) "Fluoride supplements and fluorosis: a meta-analysis," Community
Dentistry & Oral Epidemiology, 1999 Feb;27(1):48-56, by Ismail &
Bandekar .

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=…

3)  http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5014a1.htm

4) "Dose-effect relationship between drinking water fluoride levels
and damage to liver and kidney functions in children," Environmental
Research,2007 Jan;103(1):112-6. Epub 2006 Jul 10, by Xiong, et. al

http://tinyurl.com/34lj92

5) "Dental and Early-State Skeletal Fluorosis in Children Induced by
Fluoride in Brick-Tea," Fluoride 2005;38(1):44-47 Cao, et. al

http://www.fluorideresearch.org/381/files/38144-47.pdf

6) http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/figures/s403a1t23.gif

7) http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2005/12/fluoride-never-fda-approv…

"The case for eliminating the use of dietary fluoride supplements
for young children," Journal of Public Health Dentistry, Fall 1999, by
Burt

http://tinyurl.com/2bnoff

9) http://consensus.nih.gov/2001/2001DentalCaries115html.htm

10) "Community Water Fluoridation and Caries Prevention: A
CriticalReview," Clinical Oral Investigations, by  Pizzo et.al,  2007
Feb 27;
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/Pizzo-2007.pdf

SOURCE:  New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation. Inc.

      Author: Jacob M Puliyel, M.D.
      (Senior Member, Indian Medical Association,

      Vice Chairman, IMA Sub Committee on Immunisation)
      Affiliation:

      Head of Paediatrics

      St Stephens Hospital

      Delhi, India
      Date: 10 July 2007

      I was quoted in the Hib vaccine news story from 4 July (see Hib
vaccine could save thousands in Asia), but perhaps due to constraints of
column space, I feel justice was not done to what I said.

       My main argument against the research findings from Bangladesh is not
that it does not make economic sense, but that the study is seriously
flawed. The visible enthusiasm of the sponsors of the study must not be
allowed to cloud scientific objectivity.

       In the study, cases of pneumonia were compared with a control group
without pneumonia.

       Because more children in the control group received the Hib vaccine,
the researchers considered the vaccine to prevent pneumonia.

      But closer reading of the paper suggests that the Hib vaccination
status in the control children was only coincidental.

       The control children were significantly richer, lived in better
houses and their mothers were better educated. With their greater affluence,
more children in the control group probably wore branded T-shirts, but we
would not expect Nike or Reebok to suggest that wearing their apparel is
protective against pneumonia.

       Where starvation and cholera kill thousands of children each year,
international agencies such as the GAVI Alliance, USAID and the WHO are busy
spending millions on dubious research to emphasise the harm from a disease
that local doctors hardly ever come across. All this so that vaccine
manufacturers can fill their coffers. This situation can only be described
as scandalous.

       It is unfortunate that five resource poor countries — Afghanistan,
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka — have been persuaded to
undertake the expensive intervention on the basis of flawed research.

      Lois Privor-Dumm says in your report that Bangladesh is eligible for
funding for the Hib vaccine from the GAVI Alliance, so they will only have
to pay 20 US cents per dose instead of US$5.60 per dose. He failed to
mention that there is no long-term assurance of continued GAVI funding, or
that funding will be withdrawn soon after universal vaccination becomes
government policy.

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