Aspartame Docket #02P-0317From: Stangle, Meagan [MStangle@kellencompany.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 3:10 PM
To: Dockets, FDA
Subject: Aspartame Docket #02P-0317

RE: Aspartame Docket Number 02P-0317 

The World Health Organization (WHO) states that aspartame, which was introduced in 1981, is safe for the general population and does cause brain tumors.  The WHO notes:

    “Analysis of the National Cancer Institute's public database did not support such an association. The data show that overall incidence of brain and central nervous system cancers began to increase in 1973 and continued to increase until 1985 since when they remained stable until 1990 and then slightly decreased until 1993 (the last year recorded).”

The WHO is the United Nations specialized agency for health.  WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

For more information regarding the WHO and their assessment of the safety of aspartame, please visit: http://www.who.int/medicines/library/pnewslet/dmp_pn5697.html. 

For your convenience and reference this information has been attached in PDF form. 



Respectfully submitted, 

Lyn O’Brien Nabors 
Executive Vice President 
Calorie Control Council 
August 23, 2005 
<<WHO.pdf>>