This advice for individuals comes from a separate WHO expert committee on food additives, known as JECFA (the Joint WHO and Food and Agriculture Organization's Expert Committee on Food Additives), alongside determinations from national regulators. JECFA, the WHO committee on additives, is also reviewing aspartame use this year. Last year, an observational study in France among 100,000 adults showed that people who consumed larger amounts of artificial sweeteners – including aspartame – had a slightly higher cancer risk. Pepsico removed aspartame from sodas in 2015, bringing it back a year later, only to remove it again in 2020. But it will also likely ignite debate once again over the IARC's role, as well as the safety of sweeteners more generally.

Source: Daily Nation June 30, 2023 07:05 UTC