Hi,

First, I am certainly not anti-aspartame because I believe that even
if there is a slight risk from it, the risk from sugar, or more
accurately excess/empty calories is much greater, but I'm wondering
whether the study commonly cited by the anti-aspartame crowd about
formaldehyde adducts binding proteins is accurate, whether there are
other studies that have not shown this, etc.  My understanding is that
formaldehyde really never builds up even in severe cases of methanol
poisoning because the conversion to formate, which is only dangerous
when it accumulates to high enough amounts to cause acidosis, is very
efficient.  Were the people who did this study quacks, was it not a
real study, was there more to the study than the scare-mongerers are
reporting, or what?