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• A study of rats links low doses of aspartame -- the sweetener in NutraSweet, Equal, and thousands of consumer products -- to leukemia and lymphoma.
• But food industry officials point out that many other studies have found no link between aspartame and cancer.
• The rats in the study were fed various doses of aspartame throughout their lives.
• In female but not male rats, lymphoma and leukemia were significantly associated with daily aspartame doses as low as 20 milligrams (mg) per kilogram (kg) of body weight.
• To reach a dose of 20 mg/kg, a 140-pound woman would need to drink three cans of diet soda a day.
• The sweetener is in thousands of products, ranging from yogurt to over-the-counter medicines.
• The study comes from an independent research team led by Morando Soffritti, MD, scientific director of the European Ramazzini Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences in Bologna, Italy.
• "What I am recommending is for healthy children and women -- if they do not have diabetes -- to avoid consumer use of aspartame," Soffritti tells WebMD.
• A consumer watchdog group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, has called for FDA action.
• If it is accepted as top quality, it could lead to a ban on aspartame," Jacobson tells WebMD.
• "I think a lot of companies are going to see the writing on the wall from this study and switch to newer artificial sweeteners.
• "So people shouldn't fear that if they have one diet soda a day they are going to develop cancer.
• And I must say, the one qualm I have about the study is they found an increased risk of cancer at such a low level of exposure.
• If aspartame were that potent a carcinogen, I wonder if we wouldn't be seeing a real epidemic of cancer."

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