Special edition: Risk communication

Communicating when the data are not clear-cut

By Shane Starling

13-Apr-2011 Last updated on 18-Mar-2017 at 02:01 GMT

In the first part of this special on risk communication, FoodNavigator looks at the often highly contradictory and inconclusive data that can surround a single ingredient or food, and how that information is best relayed to the public.

France backs aspartame safety but calls for more research

07-Apr-2011

French authorities have backed the safety of aspartame after scrutinising two recent studies that linked the intense sweetener with increased rates of cancer and pre-term births.

EFSA statement on sweetener studies due this month

08-Feb-2011

EFSA has said it will issue a scientific statement by the end of February on two recent studies that drew into question the safety of artificial sweeteners, but has indicated that while further analysis or research may be merited, the findings are not...

Peer probes FSA aspartame study as costs double

06-Dec-2010

Liberal Democrat peer Lord Clement-Jones has called on the Department of Health to explain how spending £322,000 of taxpayers' money on a study addressing consumer concerns over aspartame represents value for money at a time when budgets are so stretched.