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Brazilian Health Ministry
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
Health Canada
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ)
French Food Safety Agency (AFSA)
Scientific Committee on Food of the European Commission
U.K. Food Standards Agency
U.K. Food Standards Agency
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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French Food Safety Agency (AFSSA)

The French Food Safety Agency (AFSSA) recently completed a two year study by the French Expert Committee on Flavourings, Food Additives and Processing Aids and has confirmed the safety of aspartame once again. The English translation on its report and opinion on the safety of aspartame is now available. Original AFSSA Report

Specific Quotes from Regulatory Authorities

"It is most unlikely that aspartame would have any effects on humans that would not be seen with common foodstuffs."

Committee of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment, Department of Health and Social Security, United Kingdom, September 6, 1983

"The committee concerned has considered the available information on aspartame on a number of occasions, most recently in February of this year, and as a result aspartame has been given full clearance for use in food and drink. . . . I would like to reassure those of your readers who may have been concerned about the articles in the national press that this Department remains satisfied as to the safety of aspartame."

Sir Henry Yellowlees, chief medical officer, United Kingdom Department of Health and Social Security, in a letter published in the British Medical Journal, September 24, 1983

"The data provided no evidence that the occasional transient changes in blood amino acid levels, following simultaneous ingestion of aspartame and glucose, could produce changes in neurotransmitter levels which might affect mood or behavior. . . . The Committee saw no reason for concern over the amounts of methanol likely to be produced by the metabolism of aspartame when compared with those present naturally in food. . . . Foetal effects from excessive material aspartame consumption by pregnant women heterozygous for PKU were not likely in view of the available data on phenylalanine levels in maternal blood."

"Report of the Scientific Committee for Food on Sweeteners," European Economic Community, January 3, 1985

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