Cyclamate (E952)

Names on a label

• E952
• E 952
• Cyclamate

Labels outside Europe often print the number on its own, without the E.

What it’s used for

The FDA lists these uses in food: non-nutritive sweetener.¹

What regulators and scientists say

• IARC classifies it as not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans (Group 3, 1999).²

IARC’s groups “indicate the strength of the evidence as to whether an agent is capable of causing cancer,” but they don’t measure how likely cancer is at a given level of exposure.³