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Article: Consumer news; Aspartame is a suspect in rise of brain tumors But FDA, manufacturer dispute new study about sweetener.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- November 5, 1996
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Aspartame, the popular artificial sweetener sold most often as NutraSweet, is a leading suspect in an upsurge of deadly brain tumors in the United States, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have concluded.
Their analysis of National Cancer Institute data, to be published this week in the Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, found that the number of brain tumors jumped by 10 percent in 1984, a year after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the sweetener for widespread use in food and soft drinks. Similar increases in brain tumors occurred in Europe, the researchers said.
The U.S. increase - about 1,310 cases per year - was ...