An Ignoble Experiment: Sweetener aspartame listed as possible cancer cause. But it's also still considered safe

2023/07/14

Sweetener aspartame listed as possible cancer cause. But it's also still considered safe

HEALTH NEWS

Jul 14, 2023

FILE - A bottle of soda is photographed in Washington Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. On Thursday, July 13, 2023, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the cancer research arm of the World Health Organization, deemed aspartame, the world's most widely used artificial sweetener, to be

Sweetener aspartame listed as possible cancer cause. But it's also still considered safe

The WHO's cancer agency deemed the artificial sweetener aspartame a "possible" cause of cancer. A separate group said it still considers it safe. More »

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