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The first rule of sponsored content: You have to tell people it was paid for.Today, the Federal Trade Commission publicly admonished over a dozen health influencers for publishing videos on TikTok and Instagram about sugar and the artificial sweetener aspartame without disclosing that the posts were paid for by the American Beverage Association and The Canadian Sugar Institute.The FTC says this makes each of them potentially on the hook for fines over $50,000 if they continue posting without disclosures. Samuel Levine,…

The IARC classifies aspartame as possibly carcinogenic based on limited evidence, while the JECFA maintains its acceptable daily intake guidelines, noting insufficient data to warrant a change. Both bodies call for further, more comprehensive studies to definitively establish aspartame’s health impact.The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have released assessments…

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is the specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization, has declared aspartame may be a possible carcinogenic hazard to humans.Another branch of the WHO, the Joint WHO and Food and Agriculture Organization's Expert Committee on Food Additives, has assessed the risk and developed recommendations on how much aspartame is safe to consume. They have recommended the acceptable daily intake be 0 to 40mg per kilo of body weight, as we currently have in…

Cans of PepsiCo's Pepsi Zero Sugar soda are displayed for an arranged photograph taken in Tiskilwa, Illinois, on Wednesday, April 17, 2019.Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration disagrees with a World Health Organization finding that the widely used soda sweetener aspartame possibly causes cancer in humans, saying the studies used to reach that conclusion had "significant shortcomings.""Aspartame is one of the most studied food additives in the human food supply. FDA scientists do not…

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Kate Moss, a British model, once quipped that “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels". Drinkers of Diet Coke, the sugar-free version of the stuff in red cans, and of which Ms Moss is the current face, may agree. Why else would they drink it, when everyone knows (or at least this correspondent does) that Diet Coke isn’t a patch on the real thing? An announcement from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an arm of the World Health Organisation (WHO), may give them pause. On…

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The World Health Organization reaffirmed its recommended intake of aspartame Thursday, but the agency's classification of the sweetener as a possible carcinogen could still scare away diet soda drinkers and lead to new beverage formulas.Soda consumption has fallen over the past two decades as consumers have switched to drinking more water or picking beverages with less sugar. However, diet sodas have been a bright spot for the category in recent years.Although full-calorie options still dominate the soda segment, diet…

The artificial sweetener aspartame is now considered “possibly carcinogenic to humans,” declared the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which evaluates substances’ risk of causing cancer, late on Thursday EDT. The agency specifically found that consumption of artificially sweetened beverages was associated with an increased risk of a type of liver cancer called hepatocellular carcinoma. The ruling does not mean you need to stop consuming all aspartame-containing products, nor does it change the…

A can of Diet Coke in a supermarket, as an artificial sweetener commonly used in thousands of products including diet fizzy drinks, ice cream and chewing gum is to be listed as posing a possible cancer risk to humans, according to reports.Yui Mok | Pa Images | Getty ImagesThe World Health Organization on Thursday classified the soda sweetener aspartame as a possible carcinogen, but said it is safe for people to consume within the recommended daily limit.The International Agency for Research on Cancer, a WHO body,…