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In the area of food safety, there is some startling news: A key worldwide health agency is about to designate aspartame, a common artificial sweetener used in a variety of foods and beverages, a carcinogen.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a branch of the World Health Organisation (WHO), aims to reveal the results of a new examination of the product's safety data in mid-July. Reuters reports that the EPA will label aspartame "possibly carcinogenic to humans." A separate WHO committee that develops recommendations on how much of...