Depending on their weight, the average adult would have to drink nine to 14 cans of aspartame-containing soda daily to exceed the limit and potentially face health risks.

I really wish the headlines would lead with this information because I’m already tired of people telling me about the link to cancer every time I crack open a diet pepsi

Being included in IARC group 2B seems quite unimportant and not newsworthy. It’s just because everything related to artificial sweeteners always makes headlines.

Here are some other members of IARC’s group 2B: shampoos and lotions containing coconut oil; aloe vera extract; nickel and nickel alloys; coffee and red wine (due to caffeic acid — unrelated to caffeine); thyme and sage (also caffeic acid).

To that, add occupational exposures related to working in carpentry; working in dry cleaning; working as a firefighter; working in textile manufacturing.

the comments on this post right here is highlighting what I love about this community, and why I’m perfectly okay not going back to reddit. everyone is talking about risk as a percentage, the inherent risk of doing anything (or nothing), the way that dosage determines toxicity, and all sorts of other sane and reasonable things to say in the face of something like this. No calls to ban aspartame or jail the manufacturers, no one is trying to say that artificial sweeteners are a joint UN-alien collaborative effort to establish mind control, no tribalism, no name calling, no vague fear-mongering about “chemicals” in the generic case, just reasonable discussion acknowledging that we live in a world where we make constant risk-reward decisions and that everyone has to die of something eventually.

Ah yes, just like the safe levels of lead.