Europe’s food safety regulator has taken aim at a study on a popular artificial sweetener and cancer, the latest rebuttal of questions about the safety of low-calorie sugar substitutes.
The European Food Safety Authority issued a statement May 8 on the validity of findings in a study last year of sucralose, the main ingredient in Splenda, saying the data in the study did not support the authors’ conclusions that the sweetener could lead to cancer in laboratory mice.
The study was led by scientists at the Ramazzini Institute in Bologna, Italy, and continues a simmering ...
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