Up to 14 cans of diet drink a day considered safe for 70kg person, as WHO says sweetener is ‘possibly’ carcinogenic in larger amounts
A widely used artificial sweetener deemed a “possible” cause of cancer is safe in limited quantities, such as consuming fewer than nine to 14 cans of soft drink a day, experts have said.
The sugar substitute aspartame, used in thousands of products including diet fizzy drinks, ice cream and chewing gum, was classified as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” in a report released on Thursday by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
