EFSA’s toxicological assessment of aspartame: was it even-handedly trying to identify possible unreliable positives and unreliable negatives?

Table 2 ANS panel’s interpretation of the reliability of studies for those that had, and had not, indicated possible harm, by number of studies

	Number of studies reviewed	Number treated as reliable	Number treated as unreliable	Number of studies on which the panel was self-contradictory
Studies not indicating possible harm	81	62	19	2
Studies indicating possible harm	73	0	73	8