The World Health Organisation is set to issue a warning about a common sweetener, used in drinks such as Diet Coke, which could possibly cause cancer.
Aspartame will be listed as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” from next month following a report by the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
As part of the report, a group of external experts investigated and assessed whether products could cause a potential hazard.
However, the IARC’s decisions have faced criticism for sparking needless alarm in the past.
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.
The report does not consider how much aspartame a person can safely consume.
This advice comes from a separate body known as JECFA, an international expert committee on food additives administered jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN and WHO.
According to JECFA, aspartame is safe to consume within accepted daily limits, with an adult weighing 9st needing to drink between 12 and 36 cans of diet soda – depending on the amount of aspartame in the drink – every day to be at risk
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