The World Health Organization's recently announced that aspartame, used in products from Coca-Cola diet sodas to Mars' Extra chewing gum, will be listed as "possibly carcinogenic to humans." It feels like we are told about a new carcinogenic item or product every week, so what should we actually be worried?

Oliver Jones, Professor of Chemistry at RMIT and internationally recognised expert in analytical science joins Antoinette Lattouf to break it down.

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