The Foodwatch Non -Governmental Organization, the Union of Cancer and the French application for the Yuka diet have today launched a joint campaign to prohibit aspartame, the sweetener in question, as a potentially dangerous to health.

In 2023, the World Health Organization described aspartame as “possibly carcinogenic for humans”.

Research has also highlighted risks associated with diabetes or premature birth in relation to aspartame consumption.

According to Foodwatch, sweetener is used in more than 6,000 products and especially in those called “light”, such as some sugar -free soft drinks, 0%yogurt, chew .

They seek the ban on aspartame

The purpose of the text – released in 11 European countries (Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Switzerland) – is to put pressure on European institutions for the ban on aspartam From the Member States of the European Union to act as a precaution.

According to Philippe Bergerot, president of the Cancer Union, there is no reason to allow people to be exposed to an absolutely avoidable risk of cancer “and” we ask political leaders to take responsibility and ban it “.

The substance is located on product labels as E951 and was re -evaluated in 2013 by the European Food Safety Agency, which is tasked with evaluating products in the European food market, without being blamed.

But Foodwatch, the Union of Cancer and Yuka are worried about “conflicts of interest”, as clarified in their joint announcement.

According to a Foodwatch report on aspartame, which is published today, “about three -quarters of aspartame studies that are considered reliable by the EFSA were funded by the agri -food industry or being influenced by its influence, which calls for its credibility Risk evaluation and, consequently, the approval of aspartame by EFSA. “

At the end of 2019, these three consumer and health organizations had a campaign against nitrate in foodstuffs for their role in the emergence of certain forms of digestive cancer. The result of this campaign was some of the food industries to modify how their products are prepared.