That was one of the dirtiest deals in the long checkered history of the Food and Drug Administration, one that the great Ohio US Senator, Howard Metzenbaum, convened Senate hearings on in 1987, only to have them shot down by the current Utah Senator, Orrin Hatch.
If you want to do something now about this, write to your U.S. Senators and to your Congressperson, asking them to convene more hearings on aspartame and ask why such a deadly menace is still on the market with the FDA's blessing. Is this just FDA approved Genocide? After all, at one point back in the 80's, the Pentagon itself even declared Aspartame to be a weapon of biochemical warfare, and the Pentagon usually knows what it is talking about (except for missing billions of dollars, of course!)
At the very least, ask your Senators and your Congressman to ask the FDA Commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, to begin the process to rescind the approval for Aspartame. In short, they relay your concerns to the FDA in the context of the citizen groundwork focused on rescinding FDA approval for this poison. Bernie Sanders frequently made clear on the 2016 campaign trail that he wanted to overhaul the FDA and end the era of regulatory failures there induced by corporate manipulation.
If you don't want to wait for Bernie Sanders or some unknown not-yet-emerged Presidential candidate to overhaul the FDA in 2020, and you don't want to wait for Donald Trump to wake up and realize that the Diet Cokes are leading inexorably to neurodegenerative illnesses, particularly dementia and multiple sclerosis, write that letter to your Senator now, because truly, LIVES DEPEND ON IT, including your own.
Finally, we must ask the remaining obvious question of whether a bad diet leads to bad and ill-conceived policy decisions?
In the meantime, somebody please tell President Trump to look out for Donald Rumsfeld bearing gifts of Jelly Beans with Aspartame. Remember the dementia at the end of Ronald Reagan's Life?
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