Why IARC's Sweetener Label Misleads
The label is a hazard flag, not a verdict. IARC placed aspartame in its possibly carcinogenic group because its working group found limited evidence in humans for hepatocellular carcinoma, alongside limited animal and mechanistic evidence. That is a deliberately low bar. It asks whether an agent can cause cancer under some conditions, not whether ordinary use does so.That distinction is not cosmet...More
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