Fatal studies should have blocked NutraSweet approval
When the G.D. Searle Co. sought FDA approval for NutraSweet they submitted doctored, fraudulent “studies,” so corrupt that the Department of Justice appointed two prosecutors to Investigate Searle. Searle’s lawyers hired the prosecutors and the case died with the statute of limitations.
Listen in on aspartame hearings in 1976 between Senator Ted Kennedy and FDA Commissioner Alexander Schmidt at the Senate Subcommittee on Labor and Public Health:
Commissioner Schmidt: ”Today I would like to report to you the final results of the Food and Drug Administration’s detailed investigation …

Straight Talk About Aspartame
Is aspartame poisoning an urban myth? Some doctors say so, the FDA says so, and snopes says so. Why would they say it was safe if it wasn’t true?
“Above all else, do no harm.”
Ever hear that phrase? It’s from the Hippocratic Oath. Too bad not all doctors swear in by it any more, and many don’t abide by it. Where medicine is concerned, shouldn’t it be about erring on the safe side and guiding people toward decisions that will better their health rather than harm it? …

Just maybe. (And I can almost hear my dad cheering from the sidelines.)
After promising an overhaul of the FDA, President Obama chose Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. as the new FDA Commissioner. She was confirmed on May 18, 2009, and and according to Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., cancer prevention expert and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois in Chicago, her appointment could finally put an end to aspartame.
Says Epstein in his Huffington Post article, “Under the explicit provisions of the 1958 Delaney Law, which requires an automatic ban on carcinogenic …