One of the most common artificial sweeteners is set to be declared a possible carcinogen next month by a leading global health body, according to two sources, pitting it against the food industry and regulators.
The IARC’s decisions have also faced criticism for sparking needless alarm over hard to avoid substances or situations. It has previously put working overnight and consuming red meat into its “probably cancer-causing” class, and using mobile phones as “possibly cancer-causing”, similar to aspartame.
Other possible carcinogens include rubbing lead all over your body and licking 50 year old paint.
Of course, the actual magnitude of effect is so monstrously different that it’d almost seem dishonest for someone to claim this in a vacuum, especially in the face of the several decades of research, several thousand studies, several hundred animal tests, all of which have found no actual proposed chemical route of cancer generation from aspartame.
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That’s… pretty bad…
Sure, I didn’t think the stuff was actually healthy as such but this is pretty big.
Going to have to keep an eye on this…
Other possible carcinogens include rubbing lead all over your body and licking 50 year old paint.
Of course, the actual magnitude of effect is so monstrously different that it’d almost seem dishonest for someone to claim this in a vacuum, especially in the face of the several decades of research, several thousand studies, several hundred animal tests, all of which have found no actual proposed chemical route of cancer generation from aspartame.
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