Prof Robin May, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Food Standards Agency, said: “We strongly support SACN’s call for industry to make data on the quantity of these sweeteners in their ingredients publicly available to provide better information on how much people are consuming and to help inform our assessments of these ingredients.”<\/p>\n

Prof Graham Finlayson, Chair in Psychobiology, University of Leeds, said it was reasonable to be cautious, especially in children, but the evidence wasn’t strong enough to dismiss non-sugar sweeteners as a tool for reducing sugar intake.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

“With obesity and diabetes rates rising, knee-jerk policy changes could do more harm than good,” he warned. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n