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What does carcinogenic mean? Full list of carcinogens

Arm of World Health Organisation looking into aspartame’s effect on health

Evening Standard

Everything we know about aspartame and its cancer links including popular products that contain it

Aspartame has been used as a sweetener for decades in fizzy drinks and food but could soon be listed by the World Health Organisation as having "possible" links to cancer

Irish Mirror

Aspartame explained and list of foods with 'possible cancer risk' including Diet Coke

An artificial sweetener that is used in thousands of everyday products - including Diet Coke and chewing gum - may be listed by the World Health Organisation as a 'carcinogen' from next month.

Daily Record

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The additive is found thousands of products including ice cream and chewing gum

Manchester Evening News

Aspartame: Key ingredient in Diet Coke set to be declared ‘possible cancer risk’ by WHO

World Health Organisation cancer research unit is reportedly set to declare aspartame as a potential carcinogen from next month

The Independent UK

Aspartame to be declared 'possible carcinogen' by WHO. Don't panic.

Sources told Reuters that the International Agency for Research on Cancer, an arm of the World Health Organization, will soon name aspartame a "possible carcinogen." But historically, the agency's decisions have been controversial and confusing.

LiveScience

Aspartame may be a ‘probable carcinogen.’ Here are the 8 most common drinks and foods containing the sweetener

This artificial sweetener appears in popular sodas, gums, and desserts.

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Mum-of-six set alight by husband who poured petrol over her in car on way to work

Mr Justice O'Hara described mum-of-six Katrina Rainey's murder as the "ultimate act of domestic violence".

Daily Record

Diet Coke fanatics react to forthcoming WHO announcement on ‘possibly cancerous’ aspartame: ‘The final straw’

The artificial sweetener, which is 200 times sweeter than sugar, has come under review

The Independent UK

Aspartame is one of the most popular artificial sweeteners. Next month, the WHO will declare it a possible carcinogen

That could set up a showdown with food and beverage makers.

Fortune

Aspartame: Artificial sweetener used fizzy drinks may cause cancer, WHO set to declare

The move has been met with a backlash from the food and drink industry

Evening Standard

Aspartame sweetener to be listed as ‘possible cancer risk’ by WHO – reports

The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer is preparing to label the sweetener as ‘possibly carcinogenic to humans’, according to reports.

The Independent UK

Sweetener in Diet Coke and chewing gum may be cancerous to humans, says bombshell report

Aspartame will be officially listed by the World Health Organization as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" in a bombshell reclassification of many favourite treats, according to reports

Daily Mirror

Ingredient used in diet drinks and sugar-free chewing gum 'to be declared possible cancer risk'

Aspartame is widely used in food and drink, as well as being available as a sweetener to add to your tea, coffee and home baking

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The Guardian - UK

Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports

Artificial sweetener used in thousands of products reportedly to be labelled ‘possibly carcinogenic to humans’

Wales Online

Common ingredient used in Diet Coke and chewing gum 'to be declared cancer risk'

The additive appears in most diet drinks and sugar-free products, but could now be declared 'potentially carcinogenic'

Daily Record

Sweetener in Diet Coke and chewing gum may cause cancer, WHO report to declare

One of the world's most common artificial sweeteners - used in products like chewing gum and fizzy drinks - is set to be declared a carcinogen next month by the World Health Organisations cancer arm.

The Independent UK

Aspartame: Ingredient in Diet Coke a ‘possible cancer cause’, WHO set to announce

World Health Organisation cancer research unit is reportedly set to declare aspartame as a potential carcinogen from next month

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Clarkson's Farm just got a bit louder

The Hindu

Scientists isolate human gene able to fend off most bird flu viruses

UK researchers have homed in on a human gene implicated in thwarting most bird flu viruses from infecting people

Daily Mirror

New vaccine for killer illness is backed by UK charity amid fears of disease resurgence

Wellcome charity and Microsoft founder Bill Gates join forces to help co-fund final clinical trials of the most promising TB vaccine candidate in a century

Manchester Evening News

Matt Hancock says he is ‘profoundly sorry’ for every death caused by Covid-19

"I am profoundly sorry for the impact that it had, I’m profoundly sorry for each death that has occurred."

The Conversation

Illegal organ trade is more sophisticated than one might think - who's behind it and how it could be controlled

Every now and then the trade in human organs makes national, even international, news.

The Conversation

Cholera: vaccines can stop the spread, but the biggest deterrent is clean water

South Africa has experienced outbreaks of cholera since January. The worst was in May in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, where nearly 30 people died. Cholera is a bacterial disease which spreads via the faecal-oral route mostly through ingestion of contaminated food and water. It causes severe diarrhoea and dehydration, and…

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"I'm not hiding behind wizards, mountains, goblins and fire" - meet vintage rockers Sweat

Sweat are a Swiss-American quartet whose cathartic debut album Who Do They Think They Are? is packed with the sounds of the 70s and 80s

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