The popular American sugar substitute, sucralose (Splenda), was suspected of significantly increasing the risk of leukemia and other serious diseases with prolonged use..

Splenda brand sucralose was introduced in 1999 and marketed as a healthy alternative to white sugar and a sweetener for diabetics..

Manufacturers advised even healthy people to consume sucralose in order to "

Most studies, including manufacturer-sponsored research, have not found any association between sucralose and cancer.. But the latest issue of the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health says Splenda can be hazardous to health..

Note that this did not come as a big surprise to the scientific world.. Back in 2013, food safety experts from the Ramazzini Institute downgraded sucralose from safe to caution, warning of further research on the product..

“Even if you consume little sucralose, this does not mean that you are safe.. If a substance causes cancer in high doses, it usually does the same at low doses, just the risk is lower, ”says Dr. Lisa Lefferts, Research Center for Public Interest.

In the latest study, researchers exposed 850 mice to varying doses of the sweetener, ranging from 12 days of gestation until the animals died..

The sucralose content in the feed was 0, 500, 2000, 8000 and 16000 ppm. It was found that sucralose concentrations of 2000 ppm and above significantly increased the risk of leukemia in rodents.

“We have proven that sucralose is not biologically inert as previously thought. Although more research is needed to study its properties in depth, it can already be said that millions of people are at risk of cancer because of it, ”the authors concluded..

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