Following the recent decision of a World Health Organization (WHO) agency to classify aspartame as "possibly carcinogenic to ... Below is a chart from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that ...

A World Health Organization agency has classified aspartame, an artificial sweetener widely used in diet drinks and low-calorie foods, as possibly carcinogenic to humans. Getty Images How much ...

The sweetener aspartame, which is found in a variety of foods and fizzy drinks, is set to be officially classified as "possibly carcinogenic" to humans, reports claim. The label frequently causes ...

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified aspartame as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.” This ...

but doesn’t determine how likely they are to cause cancer in their evaluations which range from “possibly” carcinogenic to “probably” to cancer-causing. Aspartame joins a category with ...

Aspartame, a popular artificial sweetener found in diet sodas, chewing gum, yogurt and other food products, is a “possible carcinogen” but it remains safe to consume at the existing daily ...

So the news that aspartame – one of the key ingredients in the popular fizzy drink – is set to be declared as “possibly carcinogenic” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).

In a 1981 report, JECFA said that an adult weighing 60kg (132 pounds) would have to drink between 12 and 36 cans of diet soda – depending on the amount of aspartame in the beverage – every day ...