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New York Times Editorial:

 

February 21, 2006

Editorial

The Safety of Aspartame Aspartame, an artificial sweetener

used by more than 200 million people around the world, has passed

numerous safety evaluations in the past quarter-century. It is used as

a tabletop sweetener (Equal, NutraSweet) and as an ingredient in more

than 6,000 processed foods, including diet sodas, desserts, candy and

yogurt, among others. But now comes a provocative if inconclusive

report that says aspartame may cause cancer, even at levels long

considered safe. There is no reason for panic, but surely good reason

for regulatory authorities to look again at this much-studied sweetener.

The new alarm was raised by a large study in laboratory rats

conducted at the European Ramazzini Foundation in Italy. The study

found a statistically significant increase in lymphomas, leukemias and

other cancers in rats that were fed aspartame for a lifetime and

compared with rats that were not. Excess cancers were found even in

rats fed doses equal to 20 milligrams per kilogram of body weight,

well below the 50-milligram level currently deemed acceptable for

humans in the United States. If these results hold up under further

scrutiny, the guidelines will need re-evaluation.

 

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/opinion/21tues4.html

 

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