An artificial sweetener used in Diet Coke will be declared a potential cancer risk to humans, a bombshell report claimed today.
Aspartame will be officially listed as 'possibly carcinogenic to humans' in the World Health Organization's reclassification, according to insiders.
Aspartame which entered the market in the 1980s is also added to Mars' Extra chewing gum and some Snapple drinks.
The move will occur next month following a review by the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), sources told Reuters.
The IARC ruling is intended to assess whether something is a potential hazard or not, based on all the published evidence.