Corinne Gouget was neither a doctor nor a scientist by training. She was first and foremost a mother — and it is precisely this stance, that of an ordinary woman concerned about what she puts on her children's plates, that gave her work a popular reach that no institutional expert has ever managed to achieve. For more than twelve years, she pored over labels, scientific studies, toxicology reports, and international literature to compile what the food industry would have preferred you never knew.

Her masterpiece — "Additifs alimentaires danger !" (Food Additives Danger!), published in 2006 by Éditions du Chariot d'Or — quickly became a bestseller sold in over 170,000 copies in French, translated into several European languages. A small pocket-sized format, it could be slipped into a handbag or pocket and allowed any consumer to decipher, in seconds in a supermarket aisle, the danger level of each additive listed on a label. A simple color code — red, orange, green — did the work that health authorities should have done for decades.

Corinne represented the international association Mission Possible in France, a network of volunteers committed against aspartame worldwide. She hosted conferences, workshops, and organic fairs across France, ran a website — santeendanger.net — active from 2008 to 2015, and gave interviews to numerous alternative media outlets. Her fight earned her the persistent hatred of the agri-food industry.

She passed away on June 22, 2015, in Frontignan, Hérault, struck by a train. The investigation concluded suicide. She was going through a very difficult personal period at the time, marked by a divorce and a forced separation from her two daughters. Her loved ones and supporters continue, for some, to question the circumstances of her death. What is certain is that she left behind numerous unfinished projects, and a body of work that continues to reach readers every year.