Edited sentence: , appointed a 5-person Scientific Commission to review the board of inquiry's decision.Hayes later left the FDA under allegations of impropriety, served briefly as Provost at New York Medical College, and then took a position with Burston-Marsteller, the chief public relations firm for both Monsanto and Searle.He then personally broke the tie in aspartame's favor.It soon became clear that the panel would uphold the ban by a 3-2 decision, but Hayes then installed a sixth member on the commission, and the vote became deadlocked.On January 21, 1981, the day after Ronald Reagan's inauguration, Searle, led by then CEO Donald Rumsfeld, reapplied to the FDA for approval to use aspartame in food sweetener, and Reagan's new FDA commissioner, Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr.Since that time, he has never spoken publicly about aspartame