Is aspartame dangerous

There is a story going around that the artificial sweetener, Aspartame, is actually very dangerous chemical that causes methanol toxicity which is causing a health epidemic; further, people are getting affected and the industry is suppressing all this information.
There is this article on Snopes that shows what the dangers being highlighted are, and then proceeds to get opinions from a range of medical experts about how all this is false, and bogus science. Read more (link)