Health Groups Support Aspartame's Safety

"Available evidence suggests that consumption of aspartame by normal humans is safe and is not associated with serious adverse health effects."

American Medical Association Council on Scientific Affairs report, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, July 19, 1985

"Present levels of aspartame consumption appear to be safe for those who do not have PKU. . . . The blood phenylalanine levels reported in response to loading doses of aspartame in normal adults and those heterozygous for the PKU gene do not seem to be sufficiently high to warrant concern of toxicity to the individual or even to a fetus during pregnancy."

American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition, Task Force on the Dietary Management of Metabolic Disorders, December 1985 Final Report

"The American Diabetes Association finds the use of the two commercially available non-caloric sweeteners saccharin and aspartame to be acceptable. The use of both sweeteners is encouraged for the particular advantages of each."

Position statement of the American Diabetes Association, "Use of Noncaloric Sweeteners," 1990 (issued prior to the approval of acesulfame K)

"Evidence indicates that long-term consumption of aspartame is safe and is not associated with any adverse health effects."

American Dietetic Association "Use of Nutritive and Nonnutritive Sweeteners" position statement, July 1993

"Several years ago, experiments on rats suggested that saccharin might cause cancer. Since then, however, studies of primates and humans have shown no increased risk of cancer from either saccharin or aspartame."

American Cancer Society, 1996 Dietary Guidelines

"Aspartame is an FDA-approved, safe sweetening agent and flavor enhancer than can be substituted for sugar in the diet."

American Dental Association "Statement on Aspartame," July 17, 1981

"The extensive evidence presently available indicates that aspartame is a safe food ingredient. ACSH believes that consumers need not be concerned about its use. Extensive scientific evidence, including an unusually large number of studies in human subjects, indicates that aspartame is a safe food additive. Although aspartame is now approved for a wide variety of uses, levels of consumption remain well within safe limits."

American Council on Science and Health report, "Low-Calorie Sweeteners," March 1993

"As an organization devoted to people with seizure related problems, we at the Epilepsy Institute have evaluated the current scientific evidence and found aspartame to be safe for people with epilepsy. . . . the members of the Professional Advisory Board of the Epilepsy Institute looked at the seizure activity of our patients, many of whom consume aspartame regularly, and saw no change over the past three years."

The Epilepsy Institute, published in the Congressional Record, June 20, 1986

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