Evaluation of Scholarly Sources

I have found two scholarly articles that discuss the safety of scralose. Below I will analyze the articles with questions centered around content and reliability.

"Open Sesame," Dave Simonds, The Economist. 

Article 1: Toxicity of Sucralose in Humans: A Review

The purpose of this article is to explain experiments done (like on rats), and their effects. The article explores multiple experiments done on rats, but states that further research needs to be done on the artificial sweetener to determine if it is safe for human consumption.

The article was published by The International Journal of Morphology, which is based out of Chile. The article is featured in vol. 27, issue no. 1.

The article cites over 30 sources in the reference section at the end. The majority of them are the studies done on animals that the article presents.

The authors are A.B Rodero, L.S Rodero, and R. Azoubel. These authors are from Chile, and have other scientific articles published in The International Journal of Morphology.

It is clear that this article was written for a scientific journal, which is read by the scientific community. Scientists who are looking for a summary of experiments would be the ones who read this.

I found this article online after performing a search in Google Scholar. It was one of the first results that came up because it was entirely about sucralose. Most of the articles are about the general topic of artificial sweeteners.

Article 2: Questions Remain About Splenda 

This article was written to answer the question of "how safe is Splenda." Splenda is simply a specific brand of sucralose.

This article was published by The Windsor Star. The Windsor Star is a newspaper company which is based out of Ontario, Canada.

This article only refers to one source, Truth About Splenda. This website is a very anti-Splenda campaign that argues that Splenda is an unnatural chemical.

The author of this article is Eric Akis, who is a reporter for The Windsor Star. He has written many articles about food, and has also written for The Victoria Times.

The intended audience of this article are readers of the newspaper. It would be more for a dietitian or a hospital employee to read, because I would assume many readers would be bored over the science behind it.

I found this article on LexisNexis. It was on the first page of the search I performed, and I chose it because it was only about sucralose. Even though this article is from a newspaper, which doesn't always constitute a scholarly source, it fits into the category because it discusses studies and scientific facts behind sucralose.