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Reassuring the public about the safety of aspartame
In 2000 it set up a website, Aspartame Information (http://www.aspartame-info.com), to give information to the public about the controversial artificial sweetener aspartame.[1]
In 2009 Ailbhe Fallon, managing director of Fallon-Currie, who described herself as a spokesperson for Aspartame Information, told FoodNavigator.com that a reassurance about the safety of aspartame from the EFSA "came as no surprise".[2] EFSA's assurance came in response to a study by the Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center of the European Ramazzini Foundation (ERF) published in June 2007 by Soffritti et al. The study's authors concluded that their results confirmed and reinforced their first experimental demonstration of aspartame’s multipotential carcinogenicity at a dose level close to the human ADI (actual daily intake). They also suggested that carcinogenic effects are increased when lifespan exposure to aspartame begins during foetal life.[3]
In a statement to Foodnavigator.com, an EFSA spokesman said:
- Most of the lymphomas and leukaemias reported in the study appear to have developed in rats showing signs of chronic respiratory disease rather than being caused by their treatment with aspartame.
- The increased incidence of mammary tumours is not considered indicative of a carcinogenic potential since the incidence of mammary tumours in female rats is rather high and varies considerably between carcinogenicity studies.
- Moreover the increased incidence of mammary tumours in female rats reported in the study was not found in the previous ERF study, in which much higher doses of aspartame were tested.[4]
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- ↑ REGISTRY WHOIS FOR ASPARTAME-INFO.COM, WhoIs?, accessed 23 March 2010. Screengrab here
- ↑ Sarah Hills, EFSA finds no reason to alter aspartame ADI, FoodNavigator.com, 22-Apr-2009, accessed 23 Mar 2010
- ↑ Sarah Hills, EFSA finds no reason to alter aspartame ADI, FoodNavigator.com, 22-Apr-2009, accessed 23 Mar 2010
- ↑ Sarah Hills, EFSA finds no reason to alter aspartame ADI, FoodNavigator.com, 22-Apr-2009, accessed 23 Mar 2010
- ↑ Sarah Hills, EFSA finds no reason to alter aspartame ADI, FoodNavigator.com, 22-Apr-2009, accessed 23 Mar 2010
