Autor/es reacciones

Rafael Urrialde de Andrés

Full member and Vice-President of the Royal European Academy of Doctors (RAED), and Honorary Member of the Spanish Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AEND)

We will have to wait until 14 July and see how the assessment determines and in which group it falls. From then on, the Food Safety Agencies and Authorities will have to determine whether to re-evaluate, ban or maintain authorisation and under what conditions, whether to continue with the same Acceptable Daily Intake or to lower it and to what extent it is lowered.  

Aspartame is present in many types of foods and beverages, although in warm countries, due to taste deviations caused by high temperatures, it is used in lower concentrations and in combination with other sweeteners than, for example, in central and northern Europe. 

Here are the IARC categories: https://monographs.iarc.who.int/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/QA_ENG.pdf  

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