Aspartame, one of the most widely used artificial sweeteners, will reportedly be classified as a possible carcinogen by the World Health Organization in July after years of conflicting research.
Aspartame is expected to be declared by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as “possibly carcinogenic to humans,” on July 14, sources told Reuters.
Aspartame is one of the most common sweeteners and is widely used in low-calorie food and drinks like Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi because, although it does contain calories like regular sugar, it’s used in lesser quantities because it’s 200 times sweeter.
IARC’s expected ruling reportedly doesn’t take into account how much of the sweetener a person can consume safely, but the Joint WHO and Food and Agriculture Organization’s Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) will reportedly make that decision in a separate report.
The sweetener is used in a lot of zero-sugar and low-sugar foods such as sugar-free Jell-O; tabletop sweeteners like Nutrasweet and Equal; Trident’s sugar-free gum and Crystal Light.
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