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Aspartame: EFSA presents results of its evaluation of a new study
Last updated: 17 July 2006    
Publication Date: 27 April 2006    

The Scientific Panel on Food Additives, Flavourings, Processing Aids and Materials in Contact with Food (AFC) of the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) has carried out an assessment of the new carcinogenicity study on the sweetener aspartame by the Ramazzini Foundation in Bologna. On 5 May 2006, EFSA has presented the AFC Panel’s conclusions at a press conference in Rome.


See the video-on-demand of the press conference on Aspartame held in Rome on the 5th of May. The press conference was held to present the results of an assessment by the Scientific Panel on Food Additives, Flavourings, Processing Aids and Materials in Contact with Food (AFC) of a new carcinogenicity study on the sweetener aspartame conducted by the European Ramazzini Foundation in Bologna.