On 18 June 1987, the United States General Accounting Office (GAO) in Washington DC—an agency tasked with providing Congress and the public with fact-based, non-partisan information—sent a report to United States Senator Howard M Metzenbaum. It was titled ‘Food And Drug Administration: Food Additive Approval Process Followed For Aspartame.’ A ‘Restricted File,’ it was ‘not to be released outside the General Accounting Office except on the basis of specific approval by the Office of Congressional Relations.’
Senator Metzenbaum, a Democrat from Ohio, had requested the GAO to ‘review the USFDA’s process of approving Asapartme’ because he was concerned that Aspartame, a sugar substitute marketed under the brand name NutraSweet, was a cancer-causing chemical powder that is dangerous for humans.
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