You are employed by Ω Alpha Foods Ltd. Your company is in the process of developing a new food product to be added to a product line for the “Health and Wellbeing” section of major food retailers in the EU. The product in question is a strawberry yoghurt which will carry on the label the term “no added sugar” Alpha foods is considering using either Aspartame or Stevia as an artificial sweetener in this product. Prepare a dossier for the management board of the company (2,000 words) in which you evaluate the safety of both sweeteners and based on your evaluation, recommend to the management board the most viable option for sweetener use in terms of protecting consumer safety from consumption of the sweetened yoghurt”

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