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by refurb 1106 days ago
The TK6 cells were exposed to 20 concentrations of sucralose-6-acetate (maximum 4.5489 mM or 2000 μg/ml) or 20 concentrations of sucralose (maximum 10 mM or 3980 μg/ml)

If you look at the genotoxic Multiflow results (tables 3-4), the genotoxic signals only showed up at the highest concentrations (>300 ug/mL).

Peak concentrations of sucralose in blood after consumption is ~300 ng/mL, so about 1000x fold less.

Also note the paper showed non-mutagenicity in the bacterial reserve mutation test (Ames Test).

So the results are interesting, but I'm not sure how applicable they are to actual exposure in humans.

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I like to think of it on the cell basis. All you need is to nick off a tumor suppressor gene and you're much closer to a cancerous cell. That tends to be how cancer proliferates, right? One bad cell and then a tumor, metastasis - cancer.

If you consider it on a particle scale, there's 4.5x(10^23) particles/mL. That's about 15 particles per cell per mL, and there's 3^13 cells in the body. Some of which are protected, others susceptible.

I'd take a risk, just not one for funky tasting sweets. Of course I don't do it for regular sweets, either, which possess their own dangers.