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Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Coca-Cola front group (www.theguardian.com)

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It uncovered eight WHO panelists involved with assessing safe levels of aspartame consumption who are beverage industry consultants who currently or previously worked with the alleged Coke front group, International Life Sciences Institute (Ilsi).

Their involvement in developing intake guidelines represents “an obvious conflict of interest”, said Gary Ruskin, US Right-To-Know’s executive director. “Because of this conflict of interest, [the daily intake] conclusions about aspartame are not credible, and the public should not rely on them,” he added.

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[-] danielfgom@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

From the start I've never drunk all these Zero drinks because after reading a little about just how poisonous aspartame is, it was obvious this stuff shouldn't be consumed.

I'd rather drink sugar sugar than aspartame. Having said that I've just stopped drinking all of these sweet drinks all together.

I hope the truth gets out to the public

[-] quadropiss@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

There's no evidence of aspartame being harmful to humans and there's been a shit ton of research on it from various people

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[-] ours@lemmy.film 7 points 1 year ago

Same, I don't think it's a good habit to regularly drink sugary drinks even if they have "fake" sugar in them. It's just these companies finding ways for us to consume more of their product without the guilt of calories.

When I'm thirsty I drink water. And very rarely will I drink something else with real sugar like juice, a beer, or even rarer an actual soda.

[-] CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

In the end, the aspartame in the coke Zero is likely less harmful than the sugar, and I would pick a coke Zero every day of the week over coke with sugar.

Sugar is just not healthy.

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[-] M68040@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Would this fall under the purvey of regulatory capture?