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 ...

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 ...