Fake Sugar, Real Cancer

by Jordan Yerman | April 25, 2007 at 05:42 am

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Even in realistic "human-sized" doses (not a rat eating six tons of the stuff), aspartame has been proven carcinogenic. Aspartame is found in products ranging from soda pop to medicine tablets; this discovery raises important questions of trust in a profit-driven food industry. The article below continues in English and Italian.

A second study conducted by the European Ramazzini Foundation (ERF) confirms the carcinogenicity of aspartame. The results of this study will be presented April 23, 2007 at the Mount Sinai Medical School of New York, where ERF Scientific Director Morando Soffritti will receive the third Irving J. Selikoff Award. [vedi testo completo per l'italiano]

Aspartame is an artificial sweetener consumed by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. It is used in over 6,000 diet products including soft drinks, chewing gum, candy, desserts, yogurt as well as in pharmaceuticals, in particular, syrups and antibiotics for children. In 2005, the European Ramazzini Foundation published important experimental data demonstrating the carcinogenicity of aspartame. These data demonstrated for the first time that aspartame is a carcinogenic agent, inducing various types of malignant tumors in rats, even at dose levels currently considered acceptable for humans.