Such intake would require an average adult, using aspartame as an example, to consume twenty 12-oz diet soft drinks, or 97 packets of sweetener, daily.
The 2,000 ppm level corresponds to an assumed daily intake of 100 mg/kg body weight approximately the equivalent of a 45-pound child drinking 5 cans of diet soda or a 150-pound adult consuming 14 packets of sweetener per day.
At the milk-and-swizzle counter, a skinny boy opens a packet of sweetener into his cup, then tongues the excess powder off the rim with feline delicacy while Mitz tries to think of the next right thing to say.
For the cost of a packet of sweetener for your coffee just once each year, we could understand what is lurking around us, reduce outbreaks, speed diagnosis and control of new emerging diseases, discover new cures, and protect us from continual and massive economic losses.
Milk and sugar are available upon request, for those coffee enthusiasts under the age of 9. A deli three blocks over sells garish pink packets of artificial sweetener, for the ironical and/or sickly.
She even carries in her purse packets of her sweetener of choice — sucralose, sold as Splenda — for those occasions when a restaurant has run out of it and she might otherwise confront a choice between pink and blue.
Ms. Garcia, who also sends her grandmother packets of artificial sweetener for the drinks, along with toys so they can be resold, said her family was in no hurry to leave the black market.
Back at his tent, his edible supplies are a couple of crackers, some ground coffee, and a few packets of artificial sweetener.
The most frequently reported and consumed NNS product was NNS beverages in comparison with intake of NNS foods or packets of artificial sweeteners among male and female children and adults in NHANES 2007 2008 (Fig. 2; L.M. Steffen, unpublished data, 2011).
After the dishes from the main course were cleared, the two toddlers proceeded to open every packet of artificial sweetener, sprinkling the contents over the table.
Grab a packet of artificial sweetener and pour it directly onto the oil stain.
