WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) -- U.S. food advocates downgraded sucralose, the artificial sweetener better known as Splenda, in the Chemical Cuisine guide to food additives.
Michael F. Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington said the food safety watchdog group had long rated sucralose as "safe" but is now placing it in the "caution" category pending a review of an unpublished study by an independent Italian laboratory that found the sweetener caused leukemia in mice.