• Hazzardis@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Like how cancerous is it? Considering the amount of diet pop my family consumes…I’m kinda worried

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      1 year ago

      I’m pretty sure the last I read about this it was an absurd concentration that showed to potentially cause cancer. Nothing a human could drink in such concentrations.

      That being said maybe that’s changed very very recently, I’ll be interested to see what their actual findings are.

      A lot of things potentially cause cancer in huge concentrations.

      Edit - From what I’ve read aspartame would be considered a possible carcinogen in the same class of Coffee. That doesn’t make quite the same headline though hah!

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          Lead was used way past discovering it was dangerous, and is still used enough to cause problems in specific populations. Just like cigarettes. If there is a large moneymaking industry and it suddenly comes to light that what it is producing is dangerous, they have a lot of motivation to put money behind keeping that knowledge from getting out or, when it does, keep it from affecting law. They lobby/bribe, they abuse the legal system, whatever they can to avoid going under. As such, it’s not safe to assume that something is not dangerous simply because it hasn’t been banned.