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Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 11:11 am Post Subject: EU Food Regulators Overturn Cancer Study Findings
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Aspartame Safe for Consumption, Food Regulator Concludes
The EU's food safety regulator today said aspartame is safe for consumption, contradicting a scientific study by the Ramazzini Foundation that claimed the artificial sweetener caused cancer.
The regulatory rejection of the study means food and beverage makers will not have to find a substitute and reformulate their products....
... [Another] report concluded: "The results of this mega-experiment indicate that APM (aspartame) is a multipotential carcinogenic agent, even at a daily dose of 20 mg/kg body weight, much less than the current acceptable daily intake. On the basis of these results, a reevaluation of the present guidelines on the use and consumption of APM is urgent and cannot be delayed."
EFSA stands by its previous recommendations that even at high consumption levels aspartame does not lead to an increased incidence of cancers.
"We concluded that the lymphomas and leukaemias were not related to aspartame treatment because the rats had a predisposition due to the high rate of inflammatory diseases,"
