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

Table 3 Numbers in Categories 6 and 7

	Number of studies
ELlow = Studies implying a NOAEL less than 4000 mg/kg bw	16
ELhigh = Studies indicating adverse effects but only at doses greater than 4000 mg/kg bw/day	5

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