Cross-sectional research conducted outside the United States, is consistent in finding that non-nutritive sweetener intakes for adults and children are below the Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) set by regulatory bodies outside the United States. Persons with diabetes and young children had the highest non-nutritive sweetener intakes, when expressed as mg/kg body weight. Evidence regarding non-nutritive sweetener intakes in the United States is limited to descriptive data on aspartame consumption from 1984 to 1992.

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