World Health Organization (WHO): aspartame may cause cancer and is allowed to eat 40 milligrams per kilogram of body weight every day.

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Brother Black fly's left hand clue delivery! CTOnews.com, July 14, July 14, the Joint expert Committee on Food Additives of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (JECFA) released the assessment of the health effects of the sugar-free sweetener aspartame.

Citing "limited evidence" of human carcinogenicity, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified aspartame as one of the possible carcinogens to humans (IARC Group 2B). The Joint expert Committee reaffirmed its daily allowable intake of 40 mg per kilogram of body weight.

In 2016, the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization Joint expert Committee on Food Additives determined that the allowable daily intake of aspartame was 0-40 mg per kilogram of body weight, so the Joint expert Committee concluded that "the data assessed indicate that there is no good reason to change this data".

Assuming there is no other food intake, for an adult weighing 70 kilograms, drinking more than 9-14 cans of diet soft drinks containing 200-300 mg of aspartame a day will exceed the daily intake.

Dr. Francesco Branca, Director of the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety of World Health Organization (WHO), pointed out:

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Every year, one in six people dies of cancer. Human beings are constantly expanding scientific exploration to assess the possible triggers or promoters of cancer with a view to reducing the number of diseases and human deaths. The assessment of aspartame shows that although safety is not a major issue in terms of common use, the potential impact has been described and needs to be investigated through more and better research.

CTOnews.com is accompanied by an introduction to aspartame by the World Health Organization as follows:

Aspartame is an artificial (chemical) sweetener widely used in a variety of food and beverage products since the 1980s. including diet drinks, chewing gum, gelatin, ice cream, yogurt and other dairy products, breakfast cereals, toothpaste and cough syrup and vitamin chewable tablets.