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China to restrict saccharin (not aspartame) production and sale, three major agencies, five producers www.FoodNavigator.com: Murray 2006.07.25
China to restrict saccharin (not aspartame) production and sale,
three major agencies, five producers www.FoodNavigator.com:
Murray 2006.07.25
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1357
Correction: China tightens control on saccharin production
(not aspartame), Dominique Patton, Lorraine Heller,
www.FoodNavigator.com: Murray 2006.07.24
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1360
www.foodnavigator.com/news/ng.asp?id=69203-china-tightens-control
China tightens control on saccharin production
By Dominique Patton
18/07/2006 - China is once again tightening controls on saccharin output,
a move thought to be designed to boost its domestic sugar industry.
China has had restrictions on the production of saccharin for some time
but a circular issued last month by the
National Development and Reform Commission (NDR),
the State Administration for Industry and Commerce
and the State Environmental Protection Administration
shows that it wants to step up its controls.
The state departments said they will strictly
ban the launch of any new or expansion projects
to produce the sweetener,
and the five companies allowed by the government to produce saccharin
have been told that they cannot shift production to new locations.
The government did not reveal the reasons for its renewed pressure
on the sector but industry insiders say China wants to both promote
its sugar industry and protect the environment from damage
by saccharin production.
Saccharin is the most widely used artificial sweetener in foods and drinks
and is approved for use in more than 100 countries.
It is viewed as the major competitor to sugar in China.
The country's five designated producers -
Suzhou Fine Chemicals,
Tianjin Northern Foodstuff,
Tianjin Changjie Chemical,
Kaifeng Xinghua Chemical
and Shanghai Fuxing Chemical -
produced 22,850 tons in 2005,
exporting more than 19,000 tons of the total volume.
According to the China Sugar Association, the government has
restricted saccharin sales to its domestic market to 3,500 tons,
which is the same target set in previous years.
However illegal producers are also involved in the saccharin market
and with high sugar prices driving food makers to look for alternatives,
the demand for artificial sweeteners remains strong.
In China, standard grade sugar in the southern provinces
cost RMB4960 (?515) per ton in March
compared to about RMB2000 per ton during the same period last year.
Saccharin currently costs around RMB34,000 per ton,
rising from RMB29000 in October
due to the rising cost of its crude oil-derived raw material,
but saccharin is 300-500 times sweeter than sugar.
"We now have a capacity of 500 tonnes per month,
and we are receiving orders everyday,
but we are only allowed to produce 450 tonnes by the NRDC,
which cannot meet all the demands,"
Cheng Shaoxiong, marketing manager at Tianjin Changjie Chemical,
told AP-Foodtechnology.com.
There is also significant demand for the sweetener on export markets.
Cheng says that more than 70 per cent of total production
in China is required to be exported
although much of global saccharin demand comes
from non-food industries such as pharmaceuticals
and cosmetic products like toothpaste.
The measures taken to restrict saccharin come at the same time
as China launches research into the promotion of its sugar industry.
The Economic Operation Bureau of the NDRC
said in a recent statement that it will work together
with relevant departments to step up studies on establishing
a long-term effective macro control system for the sugar market
and drafting new rules on administration of the industry.
The government wants to better coordinate putting reserves of sugar
on the market with imports of sugar
and sugar production in the coming season.
China has recently auctioned some of its state sugar reserve
to stabilise prices forced upwards by a shortage of the ingredient
caused by drought last year.
Some in the industry also say that the government wants to reduce
environmental damage caused by the sweetener's production.
A key raw material in saccharin is phthalic acid,
used also in plasticizers and for surface coatings,
and responsible for significant pollution of water in China.
Additional reporting by Francis Yang.
From: "Lorraine Heller" <lorraine.heller@novisgroup.com>
To: <rmforall@comcast.net>
Subject: FoodNavigator-USA
Date: Monday, July 24, 2006 2:36 AM
Dear Rich,
Thank you for your message on FoodNavigator-USA.com.
The information you point out is actually something we have covered
in the article below. This was written by Dominique Patton,
who is our reporter in China. But all her Chinese contacts translated
the Chinese document as saccharin and not aspartame.
This is a little confusing when compared to what else has been written
about this, but the FoodNavigator story is based on original research
from the field of action,
so we have every reason to believe that it is accurate.
You can access the story at:
www.foodnavigator.com/news/ng.asp?id=69203-china-tightens-control
Kind regards, Lorraine Heller, Editor, FoodNavigator-USA.com
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unexamined diet research cofactors:
formaldehyde from tobacco and wood smoke,
it also forms from methanol in dark wines and liquors
and 11% methanol part of aspartame: Murray 2006.07.25
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1340
aspartame groups and books: updated research review of 2004.07.16:
Murray 2006.05.11
NIH NLM ToxNet HSDB Hazardous Substances Data Bank
inadequate re aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid):
Murray 2006.07.16
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1349
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1341
Connecticut bans artificial sweeteners in schools, Nancy Barnes,
New Milford Times: Murray 2006.05.25
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1353
carcinogenic effect of inhaled formaldehyde, Federal Institute of Risk
Assessment, Germany -- same safe level as for Canada:
Murray 2006.06.02
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1352
Home sickness -- indoor air often worse, as our homes seal in pollutants
[one is formaldehyde, also from the 11% methanol part of aspartame],
Megan Gillis, WinnipegSun.com: Murray 2006.06.01
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methanol (formaldehyde, formic acid) disposition: Bouchard M
et al, full plain text, 2001: substantial sources are
degradation of fruit pectins, liquors, aspartame, smoke:
Murray 2005.04.02
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search/f?./temp/~HwoSfJ:1
HSDB Hazardous Substances Data Bank: Aspartame
ASPARTAME CASRN: 22839-47-0
METHANOL CASRN: 67-56-1
FORMALDEHYDE CASRN: 50-00-0
FORMIC ACID CASRN: 64-18-6
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1307
formaldehyde from 11% methanol part of aspartame or from red wine
causes same toxicity (hangover) harm: Murray 2006.05.24
Dark wines and liquors, as well as aspartame, provide
similar levels of methanol, above 120 mg daily, for
long-term heavy users, 2 L daily, about 6 cans.
Within hours, methanol is inevitably largely turned into formaldehyde,
and thence largely into formic acid -- the major causes of the dreaded
symptoms of "next morning" hangover.
Fully 11% of aspartame is methanol -- 1,120 mg aspartame
in 2 L diet soda, almost six 12-oz cans, gives 123 mg
methanol (wood alcohol). If 30% of the methanol is turned
into formaldehyde, the amount of formaldehyde, 37 mg,
is 18.5 times the USA EPA limit for daily formaldehyde in
drinking water, 2.0 mg in 2 L average daily drinking water.
Any unsuspected source of methanol, which the body always quickly
and largely turns into formaldehyde and then formic acid, must be
monitored, especially for high responsibility occupations, often with
night shifts, such as pilots and nuclear reactor operators.
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Aspartame Toxicity Information Center Mark D. Gold
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Correction: China tightens control on saccharin production
(not aspartame), Dominique Patton, Lorraine Heller,
www.FoodNavigator.com: Murray 2006.07.24
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China tightens control on saccharin production
By Dominique Patton
18/07/2006 - China is once again tightening controls on saccharin output,
a move thought to be designed to boost its domestic sugar industry.
China has had restrictions on the production of saccharin for some time
but a circular issued last month by the
National Development and Reform Commission (NDR),
the State Administration for Industry and Commerce
and the State Environmental Protection Administration
shows that it wants to step up its controls.
The state departments said they will strictly
ban the launch of any new or expansion projects
to produce the sweetener,
and the five companies allowed by the government to produce saccharin
have been told that they cannot shift production to new locations.
The government did not reveal the reasons for its renewed pressure
on the sector but industry insiders say China wants to both promote
its sugar industry and protect the environment from damage
by saccharin production.
Saccharin is the most widely used artificial sweetener in foods and drinks
and is approved for use in more than 100 countries.
It is viewed as the major competitor to sugar in China.
The country's five designated producers -
Suzhou Fine Chemicals,
Tianjin Northern Foodstuff,
Tianjin Changjie Chemical,
Kaifeng Xinghua Chemical
and Shanghai Fuxing Chemical -
produced 22,850 tons in 2005,
exporting more than 19,000 tons of the total volume.
According to the China Sugar Association, the government has
restricted saccharin sales to its domestic market to 3,500 tons,
which is the same target set in previous years.
However illegal producers are also involved in the saccharin market
and with high sugar prices driving food makers to look for alternatives,
the demand for artificial sweeteners remains strong.
In China, standard grade sugar in the southern provinces
cost RMB4960 (?515) per ton in March
compared to about RMB2000 per ton during the same period last year.
Saccharin currently costs around RMB34,000 per ton,
rising from RMB29000 in October
due to the rising cost of its crude oil-derived raw material,
but saccharin is 300-500 times sweeter than sugar.
"We now have a capacity of 500 tonnes per month,
and we are receiving orders everyday,
but we are only allowed to produce 450 tonnes by the NRDC,
which cannot meet all the demands,"
Cheng Shaoxiong, marketing manager at Tianjin Changjie Chemical,
told AP-Foodtechnology.com.
There is also significant demand for the sweetener on export markets.
Cheng says that more than 70 per cent of total production
in China is required to be exported
although much of global saccharin demand comes
from non-food industries such as pharmaceuticals
and cosmetic products like toothpaste.
The measures taken to restrict saccharin come at the same time
as China launches research into the promotion of its sugar industry.
The Economic Operation Bureau of the NDRC
said in a recent statement that it will work together
with relevant departments to step up studies on establishing
a long-term effective macro control system for the sugar market
and drafting new rules on administration of the industry.
The government wants to better coordinate putting reserves of sugar
on the market with imports of sugar
and sugar production in the coming season.
China has recently auctioned some of its state sugar reserve
to stabilise prices forced upwards by a shortage of the ingredient
caused by drought last year.
Some in the industry also say that the government wants to reduce
environmental damage caused by the sweetener's production.
A key raw material in saccharin is phthalic acid,
used also in plasticizers and for surface coatings,
and responsible for significant pollution of water in China.
Additional reporting by Francis Yang.
From: "Lorraine Heller" <lorraine.heller@novisgroup.com>
To: <rmforall@comcast.net>
Subject: FoodNavigator-USA
Date: Monday, July 24, 2006 2:36 AM
Dear Rich,
Thank you for your message on FoodNavigator-USA.com.
The information you point out is actually something we have covered
in the article below. This was written by Dominique Patton,
who is our reporter in China. But all her Chinese contacts translated
the Chinese document as saccharin and not aspartame.
This is a little confusing when compared to what else has been written
about this, but the FoodNavigator story is based on original research
from the field of action,
so we have every reason to believe that it is accurate.
You can access the story at:
www.foodnavigator.com/news/ng.asp?id=69203-china-tightens-control
Kind regards, Lorraine Heller, Editor, FoodNavigator-USA.com
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For the first time, I found a host of Web sites for major public and
private agencies in China, giving access emails
and quite a lot of information about policy and recent actions.
State Administration for Industry and Commerce
8 Sanlihe Donglu, Xicheng District, Beijing 100820, China
Director: Wang Zhongfu
Tel: (86-10) 6803-2233
Fax: (86-10) 6802-0848
www.saic.gov.cn
http://www.zhb.gov.cn/english/ many agency links provided
State Environmental Protection Agency, SEPA
Address: No.115 Xizhimennei Nanxiaojie, Beijing (100035)
info2@zhb.gov.cn
Telephone Numbers for Administrative Offices in SEPA
Technical Support: Environmental Information Center of SEPA
from 2004-06-05
http://www.suzhoufinechemicals.com/template/enindex.htm
Suzhou Fine Chemicals Co., Ltd.
Twolions (Zhangjiagang) Fine Chemical Co., Ltd.
Sukun Highway, Outside Loumen, Suzhou, China
Zhangjiagang Bonded Area, China
Zip code: 215001 215635
Tel: 0512-67250496 0512-58726999 58726938
Fax: 0512-67248490 0512-58726900
E-mail: sfcgc@publicl.sz.js.cn; market@twolions.cn;
URL: http://www.suzhouchem.com www.twolions.cn
http://www.suzhouchem.com/Company.htm
Suzhou-Chem USA, Inc.
396 Washington Street, Suite 318
Wellesley, MA 02481, USA
Tel: (781) 431-6409 Fax: (781) 431-0384
Email: info@suzhouchem.com; Web: www.suzhouchem.com
http://www.chinacp.com/eng/cporg/cporg_ndrc.html
http://en.ndrc.gov.cn/ [ click English ]
http://en.ndrc.gov.cn/contactus.htm
National Development and Reform Commission
People's Republic of China
38.S. Yuetan Street, Beijing China Postcode: 100824
[ click on Transmit to compose and send email ]
http://en.ndrc.gov.cn/brief/default.htm
Brief Introduction of the NDRC
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC)
is a macroeconomic management agency under the State Council,
which studies and formulates policies for economic and social
development, maintains a balance of economic aggregates
and guides the overall economic system restructuring.
The NDRC's predecessor was the State Planning Commission (SPC),
which was founded fifty-one years ago in 1952.
The State Planning Commission was renamed as
the State Development Planning Commission (SDPC) in 1998.
After merging with the State Council Office for Restructuring
the Economic System (SCORES)
and part of the State Economic and Trade Commission (SETC)
in 2003, the SDPC was restructured into the NDRC.
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The principal functions of the NDRC include:
1. To formulate and implement serategies for national economic
and social development, long-term plans, annual plans,
industrial policies and price policies;
2. To monitor and adjust the performance of the national economy,
maintain the balance of economic aggregates
and optimize major economic structures;
3. To examine and approve major construction projests;
4. To guide and promote economic system restructuring;
5. To carry out strategic readjustment
and upgrading of industrial structure,
coordinate the development of agriculture and rural economy
and guide the development of industry;
6. To formulate plans for the development of the energy sector
and manage national oil reserve;
7. To promote the sustainable development strategy,
social development and coordinated development
of regional economy
and implement the Western Region Development Program;
8. To submit the plan for national economic and social development
to the National People`s Congress on behalf of the
State Council in accordance with the Constitution.
The NDRC has twenty-six functional departments/bureaus/offices
with an authorized staff size of 890 civil servants.
After the restructuring, the NDRC now exercises broader jurisdiction
and undertakes more challenging tasks
and more important responsibilities.
To live up to our mission and perform duties assigned by
the Communist Party of China and the people,
we will spare no effort to create a team of high-quality
and efficient civil servants and cultivate a unique commission culture
that can be summarized in the following words:
"Safeguard the fundamental interests of the people,
give top priority to national interests,
pursue excellence and progress,
seek truth from facts,
adopt a perspective of the overall situation,
stress the importance of unity,
think little of fame and fortune
and adhere to incorruptness".
The NDRC will as always be committed to deepening the reform
and opening up wider to the outside world and promoting development,
actively engage in extensive cooperation with government agencies
and people from all walks of life both at home and abroad
and make our new contribution to world economic development
and the progress of the mankind.
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China starts building its largest wind power plant
China has begun building the nation's biggest wind power plant
that will generate enough electricity for 400,000 homes,
state press reported.
A unit of Shenhua Group, the country's biggest coal producer,
will build the 200 megawatt plant at a cost of 1.7 billion yuan
(210 million dollars) in the eastern coastal province of Jiangsu,
the Shanghai Daily reported.
The plant in Dongtai city, north of Shanghai,
will produce enough electricity for 400,000 homes, it said.
[ $ 500 per home to build, $ 1 weekly for 10 years ]
Shenhua subsidiary Guohua Energy Investment Corp
said it planned to expand the capacity at its Dongtai plant
to 1,000 megawatts over the next 10 to 15 years, the paper reported.
China, which currently relies on heavily polluting coal
for around 70 percent of its power needs,
is trying to diversify its energy mix.
China is intending to increase its wind power capacity
from the current level of 1,260 megawatts to 5,000 megawatts by 2010,
according to the China Electricity Council.
But the 760 megawatts of installed wind power
from 43 wind farms at the end of 2004
was less than one percent of the total national electricity production,
previous government figures showed.
According to previously announced Chinese studies,
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unexamined diet research cofactors:
formaldehyde from tobacco and wood smoke,
it also forms from methanol in dark wines and liquors
and 11% methanol part of aspartame: Murray 2006.07.25
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1340
aspartame groups and books: updated research review of 2004.07.16:
Murray 2006.05.11
NIH NLM ToxNet HSDB Hazardous Substances Data Bank
inadequate re aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid):
Murray 2006.07.16
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1349
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1341
Connecticut bans artificial sweeteners in schools, Nancy Barnes,
New Milford Times: Murray 2006.05.25
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1353
carcinogenic effect of inhaled formaldehyde, Federal Institute of Risk
Assessment, Germany -- same safe level as for Canada:
Murray 2006.06.02
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1352
Home sickness -- indoor air often worse, as our homes seal in pollutants
[one is formaldehyde, also from the 11% methanol part of aspartame],
Megan Gillis, WinnipegSun.com: Murray 2006.06.01
"Of course, everyone chooses, as a natural priority,
to actively find, quickly share, and positively act upon the facts
about healthy and safe food, drink, and environment."
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1143
methanol (formaldehyde, formic acid) disposition: Bouchard M
et al, full plain text, 2001: substantial sources are
degradation of fruit pectins, liquors, aspartame, smoke:
Murray 2005.04.02
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search/f?./temp/~HwoSfJ:1
HSDB Hazardous Substances Data Bank: Aspartame
ASPARTAME CASRN: 22839-47-0
METHANOL CASRN: 67-56-1
FORMALDEHYDE CASRN: 50-00-0
FORMIC ACID CASRN: 64-18-6
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1307
formaldehyde from 11% methanol part of aspartame or from red wine
causes same toxicity (hangover) harm: Murray 2006.05.24
Dark wines and liquors, as well as aspartame, provide
similar levels of methanol, above 120 mg daily, for
long-term heavy users, 2 L daily, about 6 cans.
Within hours, methanol is inevitably largely turned into formaldehyde,
and thence largely into formic acid -- the major causes of the dreaded
symptoms of "next morning" hangover.
Fully 11% of aspartame is methanol -- 1,120 mg aspartame
in 2 L diet soda, almost six 12-oz cans, gives 123 mg
methanol (wood alcohol). If 30% of the methanol is turned
into formaldehyde, the amount of formaldehyde, 37 mg,
is 18.5 times the USA EPA limit for daily formaldehyde in
drinking water, 2.0 mg in 2 L average daily drinking water.
Any unsuspected source of methanol, which the body always quickly
and largely turns into formaldehyde and then formic acid, must be
monitored, especially for high responsibility occupations, often with
night shifts, such as pilots and nuclear reactor operators.
http://www.HolisticMed.com/aspartame mgold@holisticmed.com
Aspartame Toxicity Information Center Mark D. Gold
12 East Side Drive #2-18 Concord, NH 03301 603-225-2100
http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/methanol.html
"Scientific Abuse in Aspartame Research"
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