It’s not a “risk” it’s a “hazard assement”.

It’s not a food safety agency it’s just the World Health Organization’s cancer research arm.

This certainly doesn’t stir up mistrust. joker-troll

  • betelgeuse [comrade/them]
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    11 year ago

    You know when a food additive is bad when they start removing it voluntarily. A lot of sodas switched to sucralose years ago. Companies don’t completely change their formula for fun. And I don’t think consumer pressure drove them to do it either. At some point they found out that the shit was bad and they could be sued if they kept using it. So they got ahead of it. They don’t want to be tobacco’d.

    Same thing with all the uncured luncheon meat that started years go. All those extra curing additives causes cancer too.

    Sucralose will probably have its day too. I noticed a huge spike in stevia and monk fruit being pushed ahead of sucralose. And splenda dove deep into those alternate sweetners. They could probably drop sucralose and be fine.

    • thisonethatone [he/him]
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      11 year ago

      Ugh, I hate sucralose. That stuff gave me a gnarly allergic reaction/inflammation and I got sent to the hospital twice because of it (I didn’t know what was causing it so oops, poisoned myself twice)

    • i remember reading some story about some guy with a snacky sweet tooth buying a big pack of sugar free gummy bears to eat on a plane ride. they were sweetened with sorbitol. anyway, the guy absentmindedly eats a shitload of them and then gets outrageous bubble gut, before absolutely wrecking the airplane toilet midflight. like apparently it was loud as hell and unrelenting.

      he discovered later sorbitol, while a sweetener, is also used as a laxative.

      • mittens [he/him]
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        11 year ago

        this was featured in dr house, one of the clinic patients had persistent diarrhea and house was like “how much gum are you chewing per day lmao”

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      01 year ago

      idk, If I was a betting man, I’d put money on the new stuff being cheaper before I’d believe they’re concerned about their consumers or measly lawsuits.