The Canadian Cancer Society is recommending that people stay within existing daily limits of aspartame consumption and is encouraging more studies on the artificial sweetener after the World Health Organization deemed it “possibly carcinogenic.”
The classification “means that there’s limited evidence suggesting that it may cause cancer in humans and that additional research is needed,” said Elizabeth Holmes, director of health policy at the Canadian Cancer Society, in an interview on Friday.
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