Top Sweetener Officially Declared a Carcinogen

Since 1987, it's been clear this sweetener's approval was mired by conflict of interest, poor quality, industry-funded research and revolving-door relationships between the FDA and the food industry.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• The World Health Organization has finally gotten around to declaring the popular artificial sweetener aspartame a potential carcinogen

• The ruling comes from sources with WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), who said aspartame will be listed as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” in July 2023

• I’ve been warning about aspa…