NEW YORK — With more consumers switching to diet soft drinks, NutraSweet Co., a leading producer of aspartame, plans to restart a mothballed production line at a Georgia plant this year to satisfy ...

Higher production costs are taking their toll on aspartame, as Ajinomoto Food Ingredients announces a 15 per cent price hike for non-contractual customers. The high costs of raw materials have been ...

Japanese seasonings firm Ajinomoto has announced that it is investing ¥6bn (US$58.6m) to expand its aspartame manufacturing plants in Yokkaichi, Japan and Gravelines, France, in order to meet growing ...

CHICAGO — Aspartame has been the subject of several controversies since its initial approval by the US Food and Drug Administration in 1974. The most recent headlines were made mid-July, after the ...

An agency of The World Health Organization, The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), has declared that the artificial sweetener aspartame is a possible human carcinogen. This could have ...