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About this Digest on Aspartame

Sources for this Digest
Current Status
Digest Publication History

1. Sources for this Digest

The material content of most of the texts on Level 3 is directly sourced from the Update on the Safety of Aspartame, an Opinion of the Scientific Committee on Food of the European Commission DG Health and Consumer Protection published in December 2002.

The exceptions are:

Sub-questions 1.1 and 1.2, for which Level 3 texts are directly sourced from the 2002 assessment report of the French Food Safety Agency (AFSSA): Opinion on a possible link between the exposition to aspartame and the incidence of brain tumours in humans

The Levels 1 & 2 were written by Prof. Pedro Buc Calderón in collaboration with Valérie Wauthier, PhD candidate, and the GreenFacts team.

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2. Current Status

Approved for publication by the GreenFacts Scientific Board.

3. Digest Publication History

The GreenFacts publication process is designed to ensure as high a degree of objectivity as possible.

First draft

The first draft of this Aspartame study was produced by Prof. Pedro Buc Calderón in collaboration with Valérie Wauthier, PhD candidate, in December 2003 on the basis of a canvas prepared by the GreenFacts Team.

Second draft

The second draft of this Aspartame study was produced in January 2004 by Prof. Pedro Buc Calderón in collaboration with Valérie Wauthier, PhD candidate, after review by the GreenFacts Team.

Preliminary and Peer review

The final draft of this Aspartame study was produced in May 2004 by Prof. Pedro Buc Calderón in collaboration with Valérie Wauthier, PhD candidate, after pre-review by experts from environmental organizations and industry (see our pre review form).

The final draft was peer reviewed by 3 independent scientists selected by the GreenFacts Scientific Board (see our peer review form) and final corrections were added under the supervision of the GreenFacts Scientific Board in May 2004.