I gruppi di consumatori lanciano una petizione per vietare l’aspartame in Europa
https://www.euronews.com/health/2025/02/05/no-place-in-our-food-consumer-groups-launch-petition-to-ban-aspartame-in-europe
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I gruppi di consumatori lanciano una petizione per vietare l’aspartame in Europa
https://www.euronews.com/health/2025/02/05/no-place-in-our-food-consumer-groups-launch-petition-to-ban-aspartame-in-europe
di euronews-english
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Lmao why it’s one of the most tested and safest sweeteners.
Leave my coke 0 alone
“The IARC recommends limiting daily intake of the artificial sweetener to 40 mg/kg body weight. This would represent around a dozen cans of a sugar-free beverage for an adult weighing 70 kg. ”
Compared to the risks that come with large amounts of sugar, aspartame is a lot safer.
Yes, Europe needs another useless regulation.
As a diabetic, nah, that stuff is gold!
don’t take my pepsi max away from me 🙁
Sugar lobby at it again
Aspartam is safe.
Not going to say aspartame is healthy but you would need to drink a case of Coke Zero a day to have a problem ….
I just wish it wasn’t in everything. I can’t stand the taste of it, so I gave up sodas
Why? FFS, stop with this anti-science bullshit.
This is pretty stupid, aspartame is an additive in some “sugar-free” foods – it is easily avoided.
It is also “possibly carcinogenic”, whereas processed meats are a Group 1 carcinogen (“known to cause cancer” – same group as smoking and asbestos) and are widely sold across Europe, including marketing directly to children:
https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/cancer-carcinogenicity-of-the-consumption-of-red-meat-and-processed-meat
Salt is a known carcinogen, as is alcohol.
Acrylamide is formed when grilling/burning food- and when pickling food – it’s a known carcinogen and a component of cigarette smoke.
Coffee is a “possible carcinogen”.
Banning Aspartame because of a possible link to cancer surely sets a precendent where we should ban much more common foods which have much higher links to cancer.
Wtf no don’t do that
I wouldn’t mind. It makes my throat feel like it’s swelling. Not exactly like that, but that’s the only way I can describe it. Very unpleasant feeling!!
I get this is probably unecessary, but I’d love diet soda with sucralose (Splenda) instead.
What a waste of time and demonstration of ignorance.
> This category is used when there is limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans and less than sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals.
Here’s the experiment in animals:
> the average APM daily intake in the general population has been shown to range from 2 to 3 mg/kg body weight (bw)
Key takeaways is that they observed carcinogenic effects when rats were taking in 20mg per kg of body weight, but at doses close to what humans consume the carcinogenic effects are not statistically significant.
It’s an interesting study.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1392232/
We should ban processed meat first then, that one is on a higher category of risk in the who, it’s called “carcinogenic to humans” (group I). Red meat is called “probably carcinogenic” (group 2A). Aspartame is on an even lower category than red meat, “possibly carcinogenic” (2B)
The difference between 2A and 2B is that in 2A there is sufficient evidence of cancer in animals whereas for 2B the evidence is less than sufficient (even lower category of evidence than limited evidence)
Aspartame has been criticized recently for effecting your gut microbiome, which is a sensitive and complex part of your overall health and immune system.
More ignorant consumer groups…
The biggest producer is Monsanto.
Watch as Europe switches to Chinese sweeteners.
Hell yeah no more aspartame! All hail our processed sugars overlords which’re absolutely healthy! ^^/s
This aspartame witch hunt is ridiculous. You need to drink gallons of cola zero every day to get the same conditions as the rats in the experiment which developed cancer.
Does Europe have diet Baha Blast?
There’s about 30mg of aspartame per dL of Pepsi Max.
For 40mg/kg max daily allowance for average person of 80kg (3.2g aspartame) that translates into…
10.6 liters of Pepsi Max.
Every single day.
So, even a major veteran heavy user who chugs several liters a day will only reach a faction of that max allowance.
To cause said issues like liver cancer, the aspartame should be easily provable as a human carcinogen, because the average amount these people consumed it in those studies borderlined milligrams, not grams per day. We’re talking almost about dioxin level dangerous and heavy exposure to lab rats would yield cancer beyond doubt.
For comparison, a single can of basic piss beer contains about 15 000 milligrams of ethanol, which has been classified as a strong human carcinogen and literally everyone drinks like there’s no tomorrow with even daily allowance of a few cans per day included in most countries’ nutritional standards. Alcoholics routinely down a dozen per day (be it beer, wine, booze or wiper fluid) for several decades non-stop and even then, things like liver cancer aren’t the leading cause of death, but ordinary cirrhosis and stuff. Or tobacco – people puff that stuff by the pack for decades, which is proven beyond doubt to be a very strong carcinogen with 4000% relative cancer risk, yet only half of all lung cancers are tobacco-borne.
Yes, I stress about this myself every now and then because I’m a heavy consumer. All my drinks in essence are either sweetened sodas or energy drinks or mineral water. I’ve tried to go without, but after not seeing any difference in my well-being in ½year experiment(physical, mental, bloods, tooth decay, etc), I just returned for convenience.