Opinion: But beneath the media glare, the fact that aspartame is one of the most studied foodstuffs in history with no solid evidence for carcinogenicity was conspicuously muted writes David Robert Grimes aspartame
Sinéad O’Connor’s full-page Irish Times ad in 1993: ‘I deserve not to be treated like dirt. I deserve not to be hurt’
In 2015 the designation of processed meats as a group 1 carcinogen led to a clutch of dubious headlines worldwide asserting bacon was as bad as smoking. This was a fundamental and glaring misconception; over a lifetime, those consuming the highest level of processed meat had a 1 per cent higher incidence of colorectal cancer relative to those who never ate such products. This extremely modest risk is not remotely comparable to the stark rise in the risk of lung cancer intrinsic to smoking.
While this is the first time the IARC has considered the evidence base on aspartame, it is the third time its sister body the JECFA has reaffirmed its safety, with both WHO bodies advocating that a safe dose limit set in the 1980s remains unchanged.The furore over aspartame has an additional confounding factor – a history of suspicion. That aspartame is much sweeter than sugar without the calorific density has long made it an object of scorn by those who project moral values on to food.
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