High intensity sweeteners are considered to be potential organic contaminants due to their widespread use in food, drugs and health products. They are introduced into the environment from different pa ...

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High intensity sweeteners are considered to be potential organic contaminants due to their widespread use in food, drugs and health products. They are introduced into the environment from different paths and are introduced into the water (1).

The cause of the pollution is the extreme persistence resistant to water treatment processes due to the continuous introduction in the aquatic environments, in particular for the Aspartame present especially in winter (2).

As for human health, Aspartame was recently (2014) tested in concentrations equal to those found in soft drinks, but, at least in this study, no interference was found on the aryl receptor and on the glucocorticoid receptor (3).

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(1) Determination of high-intensity sweeteners in river water and wastewater by solid-phase extraction and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.
Arbeláez P, Borrull F, Pocurull E, Marcé RM.
J Chromatogr A. 2015 May

(2) Evaluating the environmental impact of artificial sweeteners: a study of their distributions, photodegradation and toxicities.
Sang Z, Jiang Y, Tsoi YK, Leung KS.
Water Res. 2014 Apr

(3) Effects of artificial sweeteners on the AhR- and GR-dependent CYP1A1 expression in primary human hepatocytes and human cancer cells.
Kamenickova A, Pecova M, Bachleda P, Dvorak Z.
Toxicol In Vitro. 2013 Dec.

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