It continued to recommend people keep consumption of aspartame below 40mg/kg a day, a level it first set in 1981. For the average person, this would be equivalent to between nine to 14 cans of diet ...

A World Health Organization agency has classified aspartame, an artificial sweetener widely used in diet drinks and low-calorie foods, as possibly carcinogenic to humans. Getty Images How much ...

The sweetener aspartame, which is found in a variety of foods and fizzy drinks, is set to be officially classified as "possibly carcinogenic" to humans, reports claim. The label frequently causes ...