To: testimony@capitol.hawaii.gov; senige@capitol.hawaii.gov

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Thank you for reconsidering this issue. I hope the following will not seem too brusque, I simply believe that this has gone on long enough and must be put to rights now.

I will keep this brief as you will have many to read. I will also avoid scientific info. This issue has been gathering momentum for well over twenty years. Globally individuals have suffered ill health, had working lives ruined and we have seen increases world wide in diagnosed Diabetes, depressive illness and other psychological disorders, M.S, Alzeimers and Chronic Fatigue to name only a few of the ailments knowingly attributed to aspartame and treated by numerous doctors who are highly aware of the toxic effects.

You don't need to be a scientist to recognise that when you have excessive numbers of people all over this planet reporting ill effects of a substance identified as a common factor and when that common factor is removed from the diet huge numbers of people see their symptoms abate and very often disappear after approximately 60 days, that there is a problem. Problematic too is that many people will not know that aspartame is the cause of their debilitating illness and not know that they have a choice to detox and will continue to suffer unnecessarily. My children can put those facts together and see the issue.

To turn a blind eye to all the data that has over time been presented by experts in their field of medicine and favour research presented by those with vested interest is to demonstrate a moral deficiency equal to the lack of integrity displayed by those hell bent on bringing this to the market in the name of the mighty dollar and ego gratification way back then.

I hope you will see this worthy of consideration.

Sincerely,

Andrea (Anni) Palmer
Auckland, New Zealand