I can't remember in which book/youtube university lecture I read/saw a scientist admit that the truth is there just isn't much available literature on artificial sweetners. What the companies making them are required to do is to show that they are safe for consumption... so that's what they test. If someone wants to know more than, well, they were't required to run those tests. Does someone ELSE run those tests? No. The government says that's the company's responsibility. They don't fund that. And the company isn't going to fund something that brings no hope for profit and, in a worst case scenario, could even potentially hurt their product. They have no reason to want fund further research.
So, yeah, anyone telling you too much beyond that they've been proven safe for consumption is either giving their opinion or pure speculation. There's remarkably little scientific literature on the matter. Period.
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Date: 2013-03-21 03:51 pm (UTC)So, yeah, anyone telling you too much beyond that they've been proven safe for consumption is either giving their opinion or pure speculation. There's remarkably little scientific literature on the matter. Period.