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Aspartame has been labelled by the World Health Organisation as a 'possible' carcinogen, but consumption advice remains unchanged.

The sweetener aspartame is a "possible carcinogen" but it remains safe to consume at already agreed levels, two groups linked to the World Health Organisation have declared.

Two groups affiliated with the World Health Organization or WHO announced on Friday that aspartame, a widely used sweetener, is a "possible carcinogen." However, they emphasized that it remains safe to consume at the agreed-upon levels.

The imminent move to label aspartame as a possible carcinogen comes after years of advocacy from a leading consumer group in the United States and a handful of cancer scientists hoping to settle a decades-long debate over the sweetener's safety. Reuters reported last month that the cancer research arm of the World Health Organization (WHO), known as the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), was set to make that declaration on July 14, according to two sources with knowledge of the process. The designation as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" will provide an incen...

LONDON - The imminent move to label aspartame as a possible carcinogen comes after years of advocacy from a leading consumer group in the United States and a handful of cancer scientists hoping to settle a decades-long debate over the sweetener's safety. Reuters reported last month that the cancer research arm of the World Health Organisation (WHO), known as the...