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It was approved by US Food and Drug Administration in 1974 for use as a tabletop sweetener and as an additive in chewing gum, breakfast cereals and dry bases for foods
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Consumers, food companies, retailers and restaurants must decide whether to fight back or find alternatives to aspartame after it is listed as a possible carcinogen in July.
Aspartame, a popular artificial sweetener found in Diet Coke, chewing gum, yoghurt and other food products, is set to be declared a possible carcinogen next month by a World Health Organization arm, Reuters reported on Thursday. WHAT IS ASPARTAME? Discovered in 1965 by American chemist James Schlatter, aspartame is about 200 times sweeter than the regular table sugar.