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Welcome to the Equal resource center. Here, you can find health information and learn more about the safety of aspartame from leading health and media organizations.
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Health & Wellness Organizations
- American Cancer Society
The ACS is a nationwide, community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer through research, education, advocacy, and service.
"Since aspartame is broken down into [aspartic acid, phenylalanine and methanol] before it is absorbed into the blood stream, aspartame in its initial form does not have the opportunity to travel to target organs, including the brain, to cause cancer." Read Full Article
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- American Council on Science and Health
ACSH is an independent, nonprofit consumer education consortium concerned with issues related to food, nutrition, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, lifestyle, the environment, and health. They published an article in 1999 debunking the Internet hoax that links aspartame to health problems.
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- American Diabetes Association
The American Diabetes Association is the nation's leading nonprofit health organization providing diabetes research, information, and advocacy. Their website includes health and nutrition information, and recipes that call for sugar substitutes like Equal.
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- Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
The nation's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics serves the public by promoting optimal nutrition, health, and well being. The 2004 updated position paper on nutritive and nonnutritive sweeteners from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics was released in February 2004 and states, "A comprehensive review of the safety of aspartame has recently been published. The review covers previous publications as well as new information that support the safety of aspartame as a food additive and negates claims of its association with a range of health problems..." The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has also released a fact sheet titled "Straight Answers About Aspartame." Download PDF
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- Aspartame Information Center
Published by the Calorie Control Council, this detailed website collects news and information about the sweetener in Equal. Find facts, learn the truth about myths, and read what the experts have to say about aspartame.
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- Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA)
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA), a not-for-profit organization founded in 1953, is the leading patient organization for people with asthma and allergies. On their Food Additives page, the AAFA states that most reactions to aspartame have not been verified.
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- Calorie Control Council (CCC)
The CCC is an international non-profit association representing the low-calorie, reduced fat food and beverage industry. The Council has sponsored numerous studies on low-calorie ingredients, foods, and beverages—including investigations in the areas of mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, metabolism, consumer usage, and public opinion. Based on a thorough review of the scientific evidence, the Council supports the availability of FDA-approved low-calorie sweeteners. Read what they have to say about the benefits of aspartame.
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- International Food Information Council Foundation (IFIC)
IFIC's mission is to communicate science-based information on food safety and nutrition to health and nutrition professionals, educators, journalists, government officials, and others providing information to consumers. Check out their article, Everything You Need to Know About Aspartame.
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- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)
Founded by parents of children with type 1 juvenile diabetes, JDRF has always focused on a single goal—accelerating research progress to cure diabetes and its complications. Their website includes information on research and life with diabetes.
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- National Multiple Sclerosis Society
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society confirms aspartame is not linked to MS. Read More
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- U.K. Food Standards Agency
The U.K. Food Standards Agency is an independent Government department set up by an Act of Parliament in 2000 to protect the public's health and consumer interests in relation to food. The agency updated their position on aspartame in March, 2012.
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- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The FDA's mission is to promote and protect the public health by helping safe and effective products reach the market in a timely way, and by monitoring products for continued safety after they are in use. See the FDA's talk paper on Aspartame.
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