Perspective: IARC relishes stirring the pot with thin science
The IARC’s aspartame classification feels like a game the agency is playing to sow confusion, exploit cancer patients, and hit companies with deep pockets.
The IARC’s aspartame classification feels like a game the agency is playing to sow confusion, exploit cancer patients, and hit companies with deep pockets.
Activists love to use misconceptions about two artificial sweeteners, saccharin and aspartame, to beat Monsanto over the head, unfairly in my opinion. They love to disparage these sweeteners and declare that “Monsanto is the company that gave us saccharin, aspartame, and PCBs.” That’s only partly correct. Saccharin (Sweet & Low, Necta Sweet) is the oldest […]
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