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Jul 2023
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Pure Science : Does aspartame cause canc...

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In a new report, the WHO has categorised the artificial sweetener aspartame as “possibly cancerous” to humans. But the groupings used by the IARC, which decides these categories, don’t mean the same things we think they do. ThePrint #PureScience, Sandhya Ramesh explains. 

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