Should My Clients Consume Less Aspartame? The Recent WHO/IARC Report on the Health Impacts of Aspartame

The Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives, made up of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), just released a report assessing the health impacts of aspartame (1). The PEN Team has been watching the media headlines in anticipation of the report’s release to determine whether a change in practice recommendation was needed on the safety of the daily consumption of aspartame.

IARC has classified aspartame as...