Aspartame: UK Parliamentarian Calls For Ban

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Health Supreme Update: Aspartame: UK Parliamentarian Calls For Ban

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According to a recent article in

http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,2763,1667734,00.html "

target= " _blank " >The Guardian, Roger Williams, a UK Member of

Parliament, called for emergency action to ban the artificial

sweetener Aspartame, questioning its safety. The MP said that

there was " compelling and reliable evidence for this

carcinogenic substance to be banned from the UK food and drinks

market altogether " . A second article in the same issue of The

Guardian reminds us how aspartame was approved by Donald

Rumsfeld calling in " political markers " to override the doubts

of the FDA's scientists. No honest reassessment of the science

on aspartame was attempted as country after country followed

the FDA's lead and approved the chemical sweetener. Consumers

did...

 

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