CONFLICTING REVIEWS: JEFCA endorses aspartame despite WHO’s carcinogenicity assessment of the artificial sweetener
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)/WHO Expert Committee of Food Additives (JECFA) recently released conflicting assessments on the use of the artificial non-sugar sweetener (NSS) – aspartame. In the WHO’s July 14 hazard and risk assessments of aspartame, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified the NSS […]