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2023-06-30 Science & Technology
Aspartame sweetener used in Diet Coke, some chewing gum, may be deemed 'possibly carcinogenic': report
[FoxBusiness] Aspartame — one of the most common artificial sweeteners in the world — is slated to be declared a possible carcinogen by the World Health Organization's (WHO) cancer research agency next month, according to a report.

In July, the sugar substitute will be listed as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Aspartame — which is 200 times sweeter than table sugar — is found in several products, including Coca-Cola diet sodas, sugar-free Ricola cough drops and certain sugar-free Extra chewing gum products. It is also sold as a tabletop sweetener under the brand names Equal, Nutrasweet and Sugar Twin.

The ruling by IARC, which was finalized earlier this month, is to help determine whether the substance is a potential hazard. )

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first approved aspartame in 1974 for use as a tabletop sweetener and in various products. Since then, the FDA has approved aspartame for other uses, including as a general-purpose sweetener in 1996.

Aside from people who have a rare genetic disorder called phenylketonuria (PKU), the FDA had concluded that aspartame — which is one of the most studied food additives in the human food supply — "is safe for the general population when made under good manufacturing practices and used under the approved conditions of use," according to its website.

The FDA says it also continues to monitor the scientific literature for any new information on aspartame.
Posted by Phoper Clavitle2605 2023-06-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 What's this 'possibly carcinogenic' shit? Either it is or it isn't. Leave it to a useless bunch of dicksnots like WHO to straddle the fence.
Posted by Raj 2023-06-30 01:35||   2023-06-30 01:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Care to guess where a lot of our Aspartame comes from ?
Posted by Besoeker 2023-06-30 03:05||   2023-06-30 03:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Been drinking Diet Coke since the 90's only had cancer twice. ☺

Here is a list of the 6 artificial sweeteners that the US National Cancer Inst. has looked it
Posted by NN2N1 2023-06-30 06:06||   2023-06-30 06:06|| Front Page Top

#4 "Eat ze bugz without sweetener or flavoring!"


it's always a dosage issue: "The equivalent of drinking 234 cans of Diet Coke a day"
Posted by Frank G 2023-06-30 06:33||   2023-06-30 06:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Experts slam WHO for causing unnecessary panic over aspartame with cancer fears as they insist the sweetener is one of the 'most researched' ingredients and it would take FIFTEEN cans of Diet Coke to breach limit
Posted by Skidmark 2023-06-30 07:29||   2023-06-30 07:29|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ The government established "limit."

Until I hear it from Fauci, forget it.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-06-30 07:30||   2023-06-30 07:30|| Front Page Top

#7 
Posted by badanov 2023-06-30 09:13||   2023-06-30 09:13|| Front Page Top

#8 We can't have the proles thinking about 'context', badanov.

That would skewer so many things foisted upon the masses.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-06-30 09:25||   2023-06-30 09:25|| Front Page Top

#9 "But mRNA vaccines are totally safe! Nothing to see here. Move along..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-06-30 09:30||   2023-06-30 09:30|| Front Page Top

#10 I thought the story on Aspartame was that it got dangerous beyond the expiration or if it was not stored properly. Lab dosages are not real world, but anyone who believes that following expiration dates is real world needs to do a zone inspection of my folk’s refrigerator… or mine.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-06-30 10:59||   2023-06-30 10:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Hmmm, the WHO decides a food additive used for half a century is suddenly "possibly carcinogenic". One suspects either politics or money is in play. Any new startups on the horizon that happen to produce a new artificial sweetener?
Posted by SteveS 2023-06-30 11:02||   2023-06-30 11:02|| Front Page Top

#12 Fruit Flies or a new Gaunga.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-06-30 11:08||   2023-06-30 11:08|| Front Page Top

#13 I remember when 50+ years ago cyclamates were banned because they supposedly caused cancer. I also seem to recall that the proof was that if they soaked baby rats in cyclamates, 2 or 3 out of 100 developed cancer.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2023-06-30 11:12||   2023-06-30 11:12|| Front Page Top

#14 I recall in the height of the recall mania back then, a couple college professors used the 'methodologies' to put particles of coin and paper money under the rats skin and yes, some rats* developed tumors. They used the same stupid media to spread the word that maybe the government should recall money. Then the 'ban' wagon stopped.

* those lab rats are highly inbred specifically susceptible to about anything. Like to see them use rodents from the streets of New York city.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-06-30 11:32||   2023-06-30 11:32|| Front Page Top

#15 So much for “most studied substance in history”
Posted by Hupolunter de Medici7308 2023-06-30 13:03||   2023-06-30 13:03|| Front Page Top

#16 and I'm "possibly" the long lost descendent of Gaius Julius Caesar.
Posted by Mercutio 2023-06-30 14:31||   2023-06-30 14:31|| Front Page Top

#17 I remember when 50+ years ago cyclamates were banned because they supposedly caused cancer.

1973 or thereabout. Cyclamates were banned in the US at the time by the FDA in favour of saccharine. Up north in Canada at the same time, they banned saccharine as dangerous, approving cyclamates. My father, who headed up a cancer research lab at the time, was furious — at the FDA for deciding on the basis of research deliberately skewed to yield that result.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-06-30 14:57||   2023-06-30 14:57|| Front Page Top

#18 ^ Fascinating, TW! Will make for good discussion big brother Mundi (toxicologist).
Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-06-30 15:11||   2023-06-30 15:11|| Front Page Top

#19  I also seem to recall that the proof was that if they soaked baby rats in cyclamates, 2 or 3 out of 100 developed cancer.

IIRC, our benighted Congress passed a law that if a substance showed the slightest signs of causing cancer, even if only at ridiculously ridiculous concentrations, then it was banned.
Posted by SteveS 2023-06-30 17:59||   2023-06-30 17:59|| Front Page Top

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