COMMISSION REQUEST FOR ASPARTAME REVIEW BROUGHT FORWARD NINE YEARS
May 1st, 2011
BY MJ DESCHAMPS and KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is to bring forward from 2020 a request by the European Commission for a re-evaluation of aspartame's safety, despite recent scientific assessments failing to reveal fresh concerns about the sweetener.
Indeed, EFSA reviewed the latest studies on aspartame only last month.
"When we evaluated scientific studies on aspartame recently, we didn't see anything glaring that would lead us to believe people should change their daily intake," said spokeswoman Lucia De Luca. The latest ...
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