Aspartame, also known as Nutrasweet, is an artificial sweetener used in more than 6,000 products. Experiments conducted on rats have already shown that it is a carcinogenic agent in multiple sites, and that its effects are increased when exposure starts prenatally.
A new study in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine treated six groups of mice with aspartame from before their birth until their deaths. At death, each animal underwent complete necropsy, and all tissues and organs of all animals in the experiment were microscopically examined.
According to the study:
“The results of the present study confirm that [aspartame] is a carcinogenic agent in multiple sites in rodents, and that this effect is induced in two species, rats (males and females) and mice (males).”