Aspartame, a mainstay of diet beverages for decades, is coming under new scrutiny. The World Health Organization recently called two meetings to reevaluate its safety and it's possible increased cancer risk.
of carbonated soft drinks that have a sweetener use aspartame, as well as about 90 percent of ready-to-drink teas,“There is a broad consensus in the scientific and regulatory community that aspartame is safe. It’s a conclusion reached time and time again by food safety agencies around the world,” said Kevin Keane, the beverage association’s interim chief executive.
Earlier, in 2006 and 2007, a team at the Ramazzini Institute in Italy published papers reporting that aspartame caused cancers at multiple sites in rats and mice. The validity of that study, too, has been questioned by critics.Two World Health Organization working groups are in the process of reviewing the safety of aspartame. The International Agency for Research on Cancer, or IARC, just concluded a meeting in France to assess the potential carcinogenic effect of the sweetener.
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