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Artificial Sweeteners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition's report entitled SACN statement on the WHO guideline on non-sugar sweet

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
15 Oct 2025
Target answer date
20 Oct 2025
Answer
20 Oct 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 15 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition's report entitled SACN statement on the WHO guideline on non-sugar sweet

  2. 20 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 20 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    In its statement, the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) concluded that the evidence of a risk to health from consuming non-sugar sweeteners (NSS) is inconsistent. It also made a precautionary recommendation that intakes of NSS be minimised...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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