Aspartame and its effects on health: Authors' reply

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Michael E J Lean, professor (mcmn1h@clinmed.gla.ac.uk),
Catherine R Hankey, lecturer, University Department of Human Nutrition

Division of Developmental Medicine, University of Glasgow, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G31 2ER
Division of Developmental Medicine, University of Glasgow, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G31 2ER

EDITOR—Briffa distorts the content of our editorial, his language demonstrating his fundamental distrust of the “artificial” and “synthetic”—in this case a sweetener.

We pointed out the difficulty of proving an absence of effects in research and suggested that the public is better served by independent scientific review than by anecdotes of sometimes unknown provenance.1 When public safety is at stake, all views should be evaluated and contributors' vested interests recognised.

Briffa cites an online review of studies on …