Posted on 06/29/2023 8:48:07 PM PDT by bitt
The artificial sweetener aspartame might soon be declared a “possible carcinogen,” or cancer-causing agent, according to a leaked report from the World Health Organization.
Aspartame is used in Diet Coke, Coke Zero, chewing gum, diet Snapple, breakfast cereals, ice cream and many other common food and drinks.
It’s also sold as NutraSweet, Equal and Sugar Twin.
The news about the possible move by the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, first reported on Reuters, met with quick resistance from the food industry.
“… [T]his leaked opinion contradicts decades of high-quality scientific evidence,” International Council of Beverages Associations executive director Kate Loatman said in a press release.
The potential health warning “could needlessly mislead consumers into consuming more sugar rather than choosing safe no- and low-sugar options — all on the basis of low-quality studies,” Loatman added.
“Consumers deserve facts, and the fact is aspartame is one of the most widely studied food ingredients and has repeatedly been determined to be safe by global scientific and regulatory authorities,” said Robert Rankin, president of the Calorie Control Council, in a statement.
“IARC is not a regulatory agency, ingredient expert, or food safety authority,” Rankin added, “[and] their sole focus is to find substances that could cause cancer, and they have classified things like aloe vera, low frequency magnetic fields, and pickled vegetables as possibly a causing cancer.”
The Post has also reached out to the Coca-Cola Company for comment.
The possible IARC listing could come as early as July 14 — the same day another group, the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives, is set to announce its findings on aspartame.
Labeling an ingredient as cancer-causing requires years of rigorous testing and research.
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With nearly every chemical, it's not as much the poison as it's the dose.
If diet coke caused cancer, guaranteed we'd know about it by now. A lot of diet coke drinkers are not casual, they're hardcore, and if there was a causality to cancer, it would be impossible to hide the correlation.
I do believe there are a lot of serious long term health issues that chemicals like artificial sweeteners contribute to, especially in America, but I'm not willing to hitch my horse to the carcinogen wagon to get them more attention.
Any studies on sucralose?
We knew this a long time ago.
Obama-approved after only days in the White House.
Everything gives you cancer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsQyru5ACmA
If you live long enough, you’ll eventually contract every malady known to man.
Well, if 80% of people used it but that’s not likely. Don’t know, it was a scientist who quit because of what he felt were potential lawsuits from the product. I have read other info that states the same. If people want to take it, that’s up to them, but other chemically produced sugars cause cancer and other problems.
Diet Rite Pure Zero Cola does.
Also “Shasta” uses Sucralose:
“DOES DIET SHASTA CONTAIN ASPARTAME?
There is no aspartame in Diet Shasta. We use a blend of sucralose and acesulfame potassium sweeteners. (You may know these ingredients by their tradenames: Splenda and Sunnett.)”
https://www.shastapop.com/faqs/
This is pure greed.
Aspartame was developed 50 years ago.
It has been FDA approved for more than 40 years.
Suddenly - it is a dangerous poison!
The ONLY antidote - billions of dollars distributed to USA tort lawyers!
Watch Deep State blame cancers cause by CoupFlu vaxxes on aspartame.
Bull shiite.
Now we have to worry about Gates of hell arming mosquitoes with the killer vaccine.
“Possible” means there’s no science involved. It either is or it is not with science. Political shakedown comes into view.
Sugar is bad for you if you have too much of it, but it is at least an actual food.
Aspartame, like sodium saccharine or cyclamates, are just random chemicals that happen to taste sweet. I will take my chances with sugar, thanks.
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