 "non-sugar sweeteners, sweetners")
India’s food regulator has said that more country-specific studies were needed to probe the impact of non-sugar sweeteners (NSS) or aspartame on metabolism as well their links with diseases as laid down by World Health Organization (WHO) in a guideline released in May.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) also said that in the absence of substantive established evidence on the safety, it was retaining the existing prescribed limits on NSS.
FSSAI based its conclusions on the recommendations of a panel of scientists that looked into the WHO guidelines on non-sugar sweeteners.
The WHO had recommended against the use of
