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Originally Posted by Bodeanicus
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No, they haven't. America, where you can pay politicians enough to make tobacco and alcohol, two proven killers that completely wreck a person's internal organs legal, is not the entire fucking world. 'Muricah.
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Yup, it's all an American conspiracy.. Except that aspartame has been found to be safe for human consumption by the regulatory agencies of more than 90 countries worldwide. It is probably the most thoroughly tested and studied food additive on a global scale, and its safety is 100% clear cut.
The European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Food evaluated aspartame thoroughly, (
http://ec.europa.eu/food/fs/sc/scf/out155_en.pdf) and they found over 500 papers on aspartame published between 1988 and 2001. It has been studied in animals, in various human populations including infants, children, women, obese adults, diabetics, and lactating women. Numerous studies have ruled out any association with headaches, seizures, behavior, cognition, mood, allergic reactions, and other conditions. It has been evaluated far more extensively than any other food additive.
When new rat studies by the Ramazzini Foundation in Italy (
http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/topics/topic/aspartame.htm) appeared to show an association with tumors, the European Food Safety Authority examined Ramazzini’s raw data and found errors that made them discredit the studies. Their updated opinion based on all the data available in 2009 said there was no indication of any genotoxic or carcinogenic potential of aspartame and that there was no reason to revise their previously established ADI (Acceptable Daily Intake) for aspartame of 40 mg/kg/day. Studies have shown that actual consumption is well below that limit.
People who are absolutely convinced they get adverse effects from aspartame have been proven wrong. For instance, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study (
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3657889) of people who reported having headaches repeatedly after consuming aspartame. When they knew what they were consuming, 100% of them had headaches. In a double blind crossover trial, when they didn’t know what they were getting, 35% had headaches after aspartame, and 45% had headaches after placebo.
Please put aside your tin-foil hattery and stop spreading misinformation.