That’s not the point I was trying to raise.

My point was that people love to pile on anything artificial because they see it as unnatural and they claim it’s cause they just want to be aware of the risks, but those same people usually don’t know and don’t care that things they partake of everyday are also cancer risks and much higher ones than the artificial stuff.

My point in asking OP was because id wager (and wanted to see) they didn’t know those were cancer risks and won’t change their habits or they did know but hadn’t changed their habits.

Do you drink hot coffee or tea or soup? Cause hot beverages are considered more likely to cause cancer than this designation for aspartame.

Do you eat meat? Cause that’s two levels higher than this designation for aspartame.

Also the studies this ruling is based on indicates you would have to drink ~30 aspartame sweetened sodas a day to be at any risk.

The Roman’s used to add lead acetate to their wines to make them sweet. There’s records of people at the time noting that drinking to much of this lead sweented wine seems to cause issues. So humanity has known that lead isn’t necessarily a good thing for the human body for a very long time.