Researchers Say FDA Should Look Closer at Multigenerational Effects of Aspartame After Study Suggests Learning, Memory Deficits
New research from the Florida State University (FSU) College of Medicine suggests that the artificial sweetener aspartame may have negative cognitive effects, finding spatial learning and memory deficits among the offspring of male mice that consumed low doses of the chemical.
Over the course of a controlled 16-week exposure study, the FSU researchers observed the cognitive effects in mice whose fathers had been given aspartame at levels even lower than what is considered to be safe for human consumption by FDA.