I’ve accepted everything gives me cancer. You could be super strict about avoiding everything that potentially gives you cancer, and then surprise 50 years later they will discover something you consumed or out of your control causes cancer. 🤷♀️
The IARC ruling […] is intended to assess whether something is a potential hazard or not [… and] does not take into account how much of a product a person can safely consume.
From the article. ^^^
This is something people frequently overlook. A substance may be a “possible carcinogen” and also completely benign at levels any sane person would consume.
Bananas also contain carcinogenic material, but eating bananas is still very much a healthy thing to do. There’s a reason banana equivalent dose is a concept, and “the dose makes the poison” is a common refrain in toxicology.
I think this is the key quote:
Since 1981, JECFA has said aspartame is safe to consume within accepted daily limits. For example, an adult weighing 60 kg (132 pounds) would have to drink between 12 and 36 cans of diet soda – depending on the amount of aspartame in the beverage – every day to be at risk. Its view has been widely shared by national regulators, including in the United States and Europe.
12-36 cans per day. That’s a lot of diet cokes. Even for Trump.
Yesteryear’s conspiracies are today’s common truth. Getting slowly used to that one.
