{"id":12818,"date":"2023-08-03T09:48:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T09:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=12818"},"modified":"2023-08-03T09:48:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T09:48:29","slug":"malawi-what-are-the-implications-that-aspartame-is-now-a-possible-carcinogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=12818","title":{"rendered":"Malawi: What are the implications that aspartame is now a \u201cpossible carcinogen\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Adamson S. Muula<sup>1,2<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Professor and Head, Department of Community and Environmental Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS), Malawi<\/li><li>Editor-in-Chief, Malawi Medical Journal<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Email address: amuula@kuhes.ac.m<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aspartame is an artificial non-saccharide sweetener 200 times sweeter than sucrose. It is commonly used as a sugar<br>substitute in foods and beverages. Aspartame is a methyl ester of the aspartic acid\/phenylalanine dipeptide category.<br>It (aspartame) was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1974. Its approval was<br>revoked in 1980 before being re-instated a year later. It is one of the most studied food additives in the human food<br>supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/June-Editorial.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adamson S. Muula1,2 Professor and Head, Department of Community and Environmental Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS), Malawi Editor-in-Chief, Malawi Medical Journal Email address: amuula@kuhes.ac.m Aspartame is an artificial non-saccharide sweetener 200 times sweeter than sucrose. It is commonly used as a sugarsubstitute in foods and beverages. Aspartame is a methyl ester of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12820,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12818\/revisions\/12820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}