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Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Coca-Cola front group (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It uncovered eight WHO panelists involved with assessing safe levels of aspartame consumption who are beverage industry consultants who currently or previously worked with the alleged Coke front group, International Life Sciences Institute (Ilsi).

Their involvement in developing intake guidelines represents “an obvious conflict of interest”, said Gary Ruskin, US Right-To-Know’s executive director. “Because of this conflict of interest, [the daily intake] conclusions about aspartame are not credible, and the public should not rely on them,” he added.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Point taken and why I think any conflicts just need to be noted and weighed with the rest of the facts, as opposed to completely discarding someone's expertise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I don't think the expertise would get discarded so much as their conclusions. Again the conclusion is that the levels we are ingesting are safe. I don't want to trust anyone who could profit from the sale of the product they are judging the safety of.

In the 1940s tobacco companies said cigarettes were safe, in the 1950s and 60s we took thalidomide because it was marked as safe, in the 1970s oil companies said petroleum emissions weren't of any concern.

There is a pattern here and it's very, very simple

Profits>everything