As I see it, fructose is the new nicotine/asbestos. It's just fizzing away right now but soon, like the other two, some Bernie Banton on a dialysis machine will start a class action and the whole issue will blow up.
I wouldn't be surprised if, in addition to kidney damage and cancer acceleration, fructose isn't involved in the obesity epidemic. I intend to contact Larissa Waters, Queensland Greens Senator-elect, to enlist her support for a Senate inquiry into the whole issue of fructose, just like the US Senate hearings into the tobacco industry and nicotine addiction.
The problem, as I see it, is that no one in power really WANTS to live without fructose... yet. It's like asbestos and tobacco, really big money is involved. However, the asbestos furore and Bernie Banton with his oxygen tube is so fresh in people's minds that I think that it wouldn't be too hard to get some serious reform going over fructose. What we want is a committed effort to create healthy substitutes to fructose, like maltodextrin etc, and to incorporate them in ordinary, easily available supermarket lines.
The sugar industry could even get on board by supporting a research program to genetically engineer a sugar cane that would create maltose, not sucrose.