Amid Health Fears, Diet Coke Sweetener in Safety Spotlight

'An artificial sweetener used in Diet Coke is to undergo an urgent EU safety review. Aspartame is ingested every day by millions of people around the world in more than 6,000 well-known brands of food, drink and medicine. However, it has been the subject of a number of studies that appear to show harmful effects on human health. One recent study linked diet drinks containing aspartame to premature births, while another suggested it could cause cancer.'...read more>>>...