A new study on sucralose—a popular sugar-free sweetener that underwent 110 safety studies before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved it in 1998—finds the popular ingredient has toxicities that regulatory agencies must consider. 
New health and safety findings revealed in the study show sucralose, sometimes sold under the brand name Splenda, is “genotoxic,” meaning it breaks up DNA. That’s on top of other condemning evidence revealed in the study published May 29 in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health. Years of independent research into sucralose have dismantled many of the original claims made in its food additive permit. …