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watching right now has at some point or another had aspartame. as you point out for over 40 years it s been approved. it s been used in all sorts of different products from beverages, which is the primary sort of product, diet beverages, but also things like break it s a cereals and chewing gum and cough drops. it s been out there for a long time. it s about 200 times sweeter than typical table sugar. so you can use small amounts and makes it very easy for these manufacturers to use that to sweeten their products. again, they ve been doing it for a long time. one thing that s going to come out i think in these w.h.o. discussions is this old adage which the dose makes the poison. anything in a certain dose could potentially be poisonous or harmful. so how much aspartame is potentially harmful is the real question. the fda, as you might imagine, they ve analyzed this for years. where they came down on it says 50 milligrams per kilogram is what they think is potentially problematic. what

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