{"id":9252,"date":"2023-07-14T08:20:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T07:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londonpost.news\/?p=9252"},"modified":"2023-07-14T08:20:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T07:20:21","slug":"who-sweetener-aspartame-hazardous-to-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/economy\/business\/who-sweetener-aspartame-hazardous-to-health\/2023\/07\/14\/admin1\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO: Sweetener aspartame hazardous to health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON<\/p>\n<p>World Health Organization (WHO) declared on Friday the sweetener aspartame is a possible carcinogen but it remains safe to consume at agreed levels.<\/p>\n<p>The judgments are the outcome of two separate WHO expert panels, one reviews whether any evidence that a substance is a potential hazard, and the other which assesses how much of a real-life risk that substance actually poses.<\/p>\n<p>Aspartame is one of the world&#8217;s most popular sweeteners, used in products from Coca-Cola diet sodas to Mars&#8217; Extra chewing gum.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference ahead of the announcement, the WHO&#8217;s head of nutrition, Francesco Branca, urged consumers weighing beverage choices not to consider aspartame.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If consumers cannot decide whether to take cola with sweeteners or one with sugar, there should be a third option &#8211; which is to drink water instead,&#8221; Branca said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON World Health Organization (WHO) declared on Friday the sweetener aspartame is a possible carcinogen but it remains safe to consume at agreed levels. The judgments are the outcome of two separate WHO expert panels, one reviews whether any evidence that a substance is a potential hazard, and the other which assesses how much of [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[23,562,2409],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/WHO.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9254,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions\/9254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}