A sweetener commonly added to diet fizzy drinks is to be listed as posing a possible cancer risk to humans by the World Health Organisation (WHO), according to reports.
The additive is used in thousands of products, including ice cream and chewing gum. Aspartame will be listed as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” from next month based on the findings of WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
The IARC is preparing to label the sweetener as “possibly carcinogenic to humans”, Reuters reported based on “two sources with knowledge of the process”. This would mean that there is some evidence linking aspartame to cancer, but that it is limited.
