Sun
Feb
27
REBECCA.: What's in your diet soda: the health risks of aspartame
In 1965, a chemist at G.D. Searle & Co discovered aspartame. By 1981, aspartame was approved by the FDA and for sale under Searle’s trademarked brand name, NutraSweet. On aspartame’s shoulders, an entirely new arm of the food and drink industry was born: the…