Aspartame News

Aspartame and Flavored Milk

There has been widespread misreporting about a petition by the dairy industry to allow the use of low calorie, non-nutritive sweeteners in flavored milk as a way of reducing sugar and calorie content. To correct media reports the National Milk Producers Federation has issued a statement making it clear that If the petition is approved, the added sweeteners would be included in the ingredient list, consistent with existing FDA food labelling requirements.

"The petition to the FDA...would not change the existing requirements that aspartame, sucralose or any other non-nutritive sweetener be included in the list of ingredients if it is present".

To read the statement from the National Milk Producers Federation click here