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 food additives, it is anticipated that Dr. Margaret Hamburg, the newly appointed FDA Commissioner and inspiring public health advocate, will promptly ban the continued use of aspartame.”

Named after Congressman James Delaney of New York, The Delaney Clause is a 1958 amendment to the Food, Drugs and Cosmetic Act of 1938. It reads: “No additive shall be deemed to be safe if it is found to induce cancer when ingested by man or laboratory animals or if it is found, after tests which are appropriate for the evaluation of the safety of food additives, to induce cancer in man or animals.”

So we’ve been screaming about aspartame’s carcinogenicity since its introduction. Why now, after 30 years of being pushed on the open market, is the synthetic sweetener finally in danger of being banned?

A second study conducted by the European Ramazzini Foundation (ERF) now reinforces the first study, which confirmed the carcinogenicity of aspartame. The first study found that “at doses less than usual human dietary levels,” there was an increase in cancer in the organs, including the lymph glands, brain and kidney. The second study confirms that life-long exposure to aspartame leads to even greater incidences of cancer. Check out the study, then send both Hamburg and Epstein an email.

And stand by later this week for the beginning of a series of posts aimed at exposing corporate corruption, particularly where aspartame is concerned.

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