Safety of the Artificial Sweetener, Aspartame

“Should You Stay Away from Aspartame?” By The Center for Accountability in Science Team.
Despite decades of research and hundreds of studies demonstrating the safety of the artificial sweetener, aspartame, rumors persist that it’s dangerous. Some flow from the back-country pages of the web, but there’s at least one government agency (in the world) stoking fears: California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA). OEHHA might add aspartame to its Proposition 65 list of chemicals “known to the state of California to cause cancer.” But consumers shouldn’t fear. If California does list aspartame as carcinogenic, it will become the only regulatory agency in the world to do so. And as we’ve shown before, going against the science is an OEHHA habit. Read more.