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Aspartame advice unchanged despite cancer question
- ano-ther 3y ago> The "possibly carcinogenic" label often causes fear and confusion, but just means the evidence is unconvincing. > the "possibly" refers only to the strength of scientific evidence. If the evidence was strong, then aspartame would be in a higher category. > Dr Mary Schubauer-Berigan, of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, said the "evidence was not of sufficiently high quality or convincing enough" and "this is really more a call to the research community" to study the sweetener more. > The cancer classifications frequently lead to misleading headlines. Alcohol and plutonium are in the same category (both are proven to cause cancer), but one is seriously more dangerous than the other.