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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10848

18 May 2013
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) food safety
EFSA defers opinion on aspartame until November

Brussels, 17/05/2013 (Agence Europe) - Expected for the month of May, the new scientific opinion from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on aspartame, an artificial sweetener that gives rise to considerable controversy due to its potential risks and undesirable side effects on health, will finally be published in November unless it is deferred yet again (see EUROPE 10824).

EFSA and the European Commission have, by common accord, agreed to give EFSA scientists more time to make a...

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