(Organic Slant) Fake Sugar? Is it safe? Aspartame was originally accidentally discovered by G. D. Searle’s chemist James Schlatter in 1965. Excerpt from: Trocho, C., et al., 1998. “Formaldehyde Derived From Dietary Aspartame Binds to Tissue Components in vivo,” Life Sciences, Vol. 63, No. 5,PP. 337+, 1998 “These are indeed extremely high levels for adducts […]