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Researchers Discover Popular Sweetener Damages DNA (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

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[–] pleasemakesense 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The purpose of this study was to determine the toxicological and pharmacokinetic properties of sucralose-6-acetate, a structural analog of the artificial sweetener sucralose. Sucralose-6-acetate is an intermediate and impurity in the manufacture of sucralose, and recent commercial sucralose samples were found to contain up to 0.67% sucralose-6-acetate

So it's not the actual sweetener in use, but an impurity related to manufacturing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, but it's not removed, so it's still in the package with the sweet stuff.