# Aspartame- deadly or conspiracy
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspartame-deadly-or-conspiracy/76643
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 16, 2001, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspartame-deadly-or-conspiracy/76643 "2001-08-16T21:52:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@satanslawyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/satanslawyer)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2001, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspartame-deadly-or-conspiracy/76643/1 "2001-08-16T21:52:41Z")
A certain co-worker (who is such a conspiracy theorist she firmly believes in chemtrails) said that aspartame is a DEADLY toxin that causes MS like symptoms and too much will kill you. I searched around the web for awhile and every web site I found had conspiracy theory written all over them. Is aspartame really a deadly substance? If so, how the hell did the FDA let it go?
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### Author:  [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2001, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspartame-deadly-or-conspiracy/76643/2 "2001-08-16T21:56:34Z")
**Cecil Adams** on [aspartame](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a961129.html).
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### Author:  [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2001, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspartame-deadly-or-conspiracy/76643/3 "2001-08-16T22:40:03Z")
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=81754](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=81754)
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### Author:  [@MrDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDeath)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2001, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspartame-deadly-or-conspiracy/76643/4 "2001-08-16T22:45:19Z")
[This active thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=81754) has been discussing it in some depth. The scientific evidence is that Aspartame is quite safe for most people, unless you’re afflicted with phenylketonuria (which leaves you unable to digest phenylalanine, which is a component of Aspartame); some studies also indicate that a percentage of migraine sufferers find there attacks increase in severity when they take Aspartame.
But if you want to dissuade your friend, send them over to the [MS Foundation Web page](http://www.msfocus.org/aspart.htm) that discusses this exact issue.
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### Author:  [@MrDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDeath)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2001, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspartame-deadly-or-conspiracy/76643/5 "2001-08-16T22:46:43Z")
D’oh! Sorry about the quasi-simulpost.
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### Author:  [@MrDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDeath)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2001, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspartame-deadly-or-conspiracy/76643/6 "2001-08-16T22:48:17Z")
“There” attacks? Ooooooooohhhh. Wake up, MrDeath!