European Aspartame Manufacturer Quits

Holland Sweetener Company, a joint venture between Dutch Royal DSM and Japanese Tosoh Corporation has announced that it will close its Aspartame manufacturing facility located in the Netherlands. According to the financial pages of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the move is due to a "structural oversupply" in the global aspartame markets, which has caused "worldwide strong price erosion over the last 5 years". Perhaps recent renewed doubts over cancer causing properties and other side effects of the sweetener, which is used instead of sugar in a huge number of 'diet' foods and drinks, had something to do with the oversupply - Betty Martini, long time anti-aspartame campaigner, certainly thinks so....

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