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PEPSI WILL SOON HAVE THREE DIET DRINK OPTIONS. 
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JUST A YEAR AFTER DITCHING ASPARTAME, PEPSI IS RE-INTRODUCING THE ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER. 
PEPSICO SAYS A NEW OFFERING WILL BE MADE WITH ASPARTAME AND ACE-K-- 
IT WILL BE CALLED DIET PEPSI CLASSIC SWEETENER BLEND. 
THE DRINKS WILL ON STORE SHELVES IN SEPTEMBER...AND SOLD IN 20-OUNCE AND TWO-LITER BOTTLES, ALONG WITH 12-PACKS. 
PEPSI INITIALLY DUMPED ASPARTAME OVER PUBLIC CONCERNS ABOUT THE SWEETENER"S HEALTH EFFECTS. 
NOW, IT SAYS CONSUMERS WANT CHOICE IN DIET COLAS -- SO IT"S JUST ADJUSTING TO BUYERS TASTES.
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PEPSI HEALTH DIET PEPSI MAX ZERO ACE-K



THE CALORIE COUNCIL, GROCREY MANUFACTURES OF AMERICA, NATIONAL FOOD PROCESSORS, NATIONAL SOFT DRINK ASSOCIATION AND THE NUTRASWEET KELCO COMPANY HOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS THE SAFETY OF ASPARTAME AND TO RESPOND TO PAPER BY JOHN OLNEY, MD AND COLLEAGUES THET USES EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA TO SUGGEST AN ALLEGED LINK BETWEEN ASPARTAME AND BRAIN TUMORS.

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Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Calorie Control Council, Nutrasweet Kelco Company, Grocery Manufacturers of America, National Food Processors and other food - related councils hold a press conference on the safety of aspertame.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

NEW FINDINGS BY THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH SHOULD PUT TO REST ANY FEARS ABOUT ASPARTAME AND ALLERGIES. SCIENTISTS REPORT FINDING NO CASES OF ALLERGIC REACTIONS FROM ASPARTAME. DOCTORS AT N-I-H PLACED ADS IN VARIOUS PUBLICATIONMS ASKING FOR SUBJECTS FOR THEIR RESEARCH. THEY CONDUCTED A THREE YEAR STUDY AND NO PATIENTS WERE FOUND WITH A REACTION TO ASPARTAME. SUBJECTS AND DOCTORS PARTICIPATED IN A DOUBLE BLIND STUDY...THE PATIENT WAS GIVEN ASPARTAME SOME TIMES AND A PLACEBO AT OTHER TIMES, NOT EVEN THE DOCTOR KNEW WHEN THE PLACEBO'S WERE ADMINISTERED. THE AMOUNTS OF ASPARTAME USED WERE EQUAL TO THE AMOUNT IN AS MANY AS TWELVE DIET SODAS. QUESTIONS? CALL LIBBY MIKESELL (202) 296-6540.

00:00:00:00 [Study at Emory indicates that Aspartame/Nutrasweet may cause brain damage to unborn children]-- Var shots products containing sweetner/ (0:00)/

This footage was filmed and produced 14 July 2023. Citizens display the artificial sweetener aspartame in Yichang, Hubei province, China, July 14, 2023. The World Health Organization announced on the 14th that the artificial sweetener aspartame is listed as a 'possible carcinogen.' The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) jointly issued a report on the hazards and risk assessment of aspartame, which classified aspartame as a 'probable carcinogen' (IARC Class 2B) based on 'limited evidence' that aspartame has carcinogenicity in humans. And reiterated that the recommended allowable daily intake is less than 40 milligrams per kilogram of body weight. Aspartame is an artificial sweetener that has been used since the 1980s in a wide variety of food and beverage products, including sugar-free beverages, chewing gum, gelatin, ice cream, dairy products such as yogurt, breakfast cereals, toothpaste, cough syrups, and chewable vitamin tablets

DR. JOHN OLNEY OF THE COMMUNITY NUTRITION INSTITUTE, FORMER SENATOR METZENBAUM WITH CONSUMER FEDERATION ANT OTHERS HOLD A COUNTER NEWS CONFERENCE ON THE SAFETY OF NUTRASWEET / ASPARTAME.

A GROUP CALLING ITSELF THE COMMUNITY NUTRITION INSTITUTE WANTS A NATIONWIDE BAN ON THE ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER NUTRASWEET, CHEMICALLY KNOWN AS ASPARTAME. THE GROUP SAYS THERE ARE NEW CONCERNS LINKING ASPARTAME TO EPILEPTIC SEIZURES, AND WANT THE F-D-A TO ACT.

<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:24 - :51</p>\n<p>World Health Organization</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:51 - :56</p>\n<p>CalorieCounter.org</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:56 - 1:05</p>\n<p>World Health Organization</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>1:05 - 1:20</p>\n<p>American Beverage</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>1:20 - 1:31</p>\n<p>World Health Organization</p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--LEAD IN--</b></p>\n<p>SOME PEOPLE MAY WANT TO TRADE THEIR DIET SOFT DRINKS FOR A GLASS OF WATER.</p>\n<p>THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SAYS THE LONG-USED ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER ASPARTAME.....FOUND IN MANY FOODS AND DRINKS.....COULD LEAD TO POTENTIAL HEALTH RISKS.</p>\n<p>JOHN LORINC REPORTS.</p>\n<p><b>--VO SCRIPT</b>--</p>\n<p>ASPARTAME MAY NOT BE AS SWEET AS YOU THINK....FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING.</p>\n<p>ASIDE FROM DIET SODAS AND LOW-CALORIE FOODS, THE ARTIFICIAL SWEETNER IS IN ROUGHLY SIX-THOUSAND PRODUCTS WORLD-WIDE, ACCORDING TO THE CALORIE CONTROL COUNCIL.</p>\n<p>AND NOW A SEMI-INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE WITHIN THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION WHO SAYS ASPARTAME SHOULD BE DEEMED QUOTE "POSSIBLY CARCINOGENIC TO HUMANS."</p>\n<p>BUT.....THERE'S A CAVEAT.....THE W-H-O SAYS THE EVIDENCE WAS QUOTE "LIMITED."</p>\n<p>SO, AT LEAST FOR NOW, HEALTH OFFICIALS RECOMMEND: MODERATION, MODERATION, MODERATION.</p>\n<p>AMERICAN BEVERAGE.....A GROUP THAT REPRESENTS THE NON-ALCOHOLIC DRINK INDUSTRY....</p>\n<p>SAID IN A STATEMENT QUOTE: “THE FACT THAT FOOD SAFETY AGENCIES WORLDWIDE, INCLUDING THE FDA, CONTINUE TO FIND ASPARTAME SAFE MAKES US CONFIDENT IN THE SAFETY OF OUR PRODUCTS.”</p>\n<p><b>--TAG--</b></p>\n<p>THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION GAVE THE NOD TO ASPARTAME USE IN SOME FOODS AND DRINKS IN 1974....BUT THAT WAS SUSPENDED FOR A FEW YEARS DUE TO POTENTIAL HEALTH CONCERNS.</p>\n<p>IN 19-83 THE F-D-A SET AN ASPARTAME GUIDELINE AT 50-MILLIGRAMS PER KILOGRAM OF A PERSON'S WEIGHT.</p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p>NATIONAL US HEALTH FOODS DRINKS WHO FDA CANCER</p>\n<p></p>

DR. JOHN OLNEY OF THE COMMUNITY NUTRITION INSTITUTE, FORMER SENATOR METZENBAUM WITH CONSUMER FEDERATION ANT OTHERS HOLD A COUNTER NEWS CONFERENCE ON THE SAFETY OF NUTRASWEET / ASPARTAME.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

This footage was filmed and produced 6 July 2023. Artificial sweetener Aspartame in Yichang, Hubei province, China, July 6, 2023

<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:24 - :35</p>\n<p>World Health Organization</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:36 - :51</p>\n<p>Dr. Mary Schubauer-Berigan</p>\n<p>Program Head, IARC Monographs, WHO</p>\n<p>World Health Organization</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:51 - :56</p>\n<p>CalorieCounter.org</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:57 - 1:05</p>\n<p>Dr. Francesco Branca</p>\n<p>Director, Dept. of Nutrition and Food Safety, WHO</p>\n<p>World Health Organization</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>1:05 - 1:20</p>\n<p>American Beverage</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>1:20 - 1:31</p>\n<p>World Health Organization</p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--LEAD IN--</b></p>\n<p>SOME PEOPLE MAY WANT TO TRADE THEIR DIET SOFT DRINKS FOR A GLASS OF WATER.</p>\n<p>THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SAYS THE LONG-USED ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER ASPARTAME.....FOUND IN MANY FOODS AND DRINKS.....COULD LEAD TO POTENTIAL HEALTH RISKS.</p>\n<p>JOHN LORINC REPORTS.</p>\n<p><b>--REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS--</b></p>\n<p>ASPARTAME MAY NOT BE AS SWEET AS YOU THINK....FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING.</p>\n<p>ASIDE FROM DIET SODAS AND LOW-CALORIE FOODS, THE ARTIFICIAL SWEETNER IS IN ROUGHLY SIX-THOUSAND PRODUCTS WORLD-WIDE, ACCORDING TO THE CALORIE CONTROL COUNCIL.</p>\n<p>AND EVERY TIME A PERSON INGESTS ASPARTAME, THE MOLECULE BREAKS DOWN INTO THREE-PIECES.</p>\n<p>--Nat sot--</p>\n<p>“Phenylalanine, aspatic acid and methanol.”</p>\n<p>AND NOW A SEMI-INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE WITHIN THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION WHO SAYS ASPARTAME SHOULD BE DEEMED QUOTE "POSSIBLY CARCINOGENIC TO HUMANS."</p>\n<p>BUT.....THERE'S A CAVEAT.</p>\n<p>Dr. Mary Schubauer-Berigan/Program Head, IARC Monographs, WHO</p>\n<p>“Despite consistent positive findings in these three studies, the working group concluded that chance, bias and confounding could not be ruled out with reasonable confidence and thus they concluded that the evidence was limited.”</p>\n<p>SO, AT LEAST FOR NOW, HEALTH OFFICIALS RECOMMEND: MODERATION, MODERATION, MODERATION.</p>\n<p>Dr. Francesco Branca/Director, Dept. of Nutrition and Food Safety, WHO</p>\n<p>“Our results do not indicate occasional consumption should pose a risk to most consumers.”</p>\n<p>AMERICAN BEVERAGE.....A GROUP THAT REPRESENTS THE NON-ALCOHOLIC DRINK INDUSTRY....</p>\n<p>SAID IN A STATEMENT QUOTE: “THE FACT THAT FOOD SAFETY AGENCIES WORLDWIDE, INCLUDING THE FDA, CONTINUE TO FIND ASPARTAME SAFE MAKES US CONFIDENT IN THE SAFETY OF OUR PRODUCTS.”</p>\n<p>Dr. Francesco Branca/Director, Dept. of Nutrition and Food Safety, WHO</p>\n<p>“The recommendation that WHO made was to moderate both the consumption of free sugars and the consumption of sweeteners.” </p>\n<p>I'M JOHN LORINC REPORTING.</p>\n<p><b>--TAG--</b></p>\n<p>THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION GAVE THE NOD TO ASPARTAME USE IN SOME FOODS AND DRINKS IN 1974....BUT THAT WAS SUSPENDED FOR A FEW YEARS DUE TO POTENTIAL HEALTH CONCERNS.</p>\n<p>IN 19-83 THE F-D-A SET AN ASPARTAME GUIDELINE AT 50-MILLIGRAMS PER KILOGRAM OF A PERSON'S WEIGHT.</p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p>NATIONAL US HEALTH FOODS DRINKS WHO FDA CANCER</p>\n<p></p>

DR. JOHN OLNEY OF THE COMMUNITY NUTRITION INSTITUTE, FORMER SENATOR METZENBAUM WITH CONSUMER FEDERATION ANT OTHERS HOLD A COUNTER NEWS CONFERENCE ON THE SAFETY OF NUTRASWEET / ASPARTAME.

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