Safety Assessment of Sugar Substitutes

There have been extensive research on low calories sugar substitutes followed by meticulous inspections and law enforcements by official authorities in food industry. This is mainly due to achieving safety measures of sweetener content products rather than taste desirability and quality.
Any low-calorie sweetener present in food products is legally obligated to be stated in ingredients on the packages.



Analysis of the acceptable daily intake i.e. ADI must be carried out within adequate parameter before being legally permitted to process and manufacture. It is specified as milligrams per kg of body weight that can be safely followed for daily consumption.
The acceptable daily intake of each sweetener is evaluated cautiously to the extent that it is dramatically less than the safe portion for animals (resulting from laboratory animal experiments).

Basically the Food and Drug Administration is in charge of controlling the acceptable daily intake in the US while international authorization of the ADI is in association with distinguished organizations including the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives of the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO).
According to the results of many scientific experiments, commonly used sugar substitutes do not have any connection with risk of cancer. The following outlines the safety aspects studied on certain low-calorie sweeteners:
Saccharin

In 1977, using saccharin was forbidden in Canada as a result of some studies carried out in laboratory on experimental rats; increasing risk of bladder cancers caused by saccharin precipitation. In the USA the manufacturers were legally obligated to label a warning (that saccharin may develop the risk of cancer in laboratory animal) on the packages of the Saccharin- content products.

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