Word: cancerous
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...saccharin users think the FDA's action is silly, a gratuitous Government act reminiscent of the cyclamate ban more than seven years ago, which left saccharin as the only FDA-approved artificial sweetener. In recent Canadian tests, some rats that were fed enormous doses of saccharin developed bladder cancer. To take in an equivalent amount of saccharin, a human would have to drink at least 800 cans of diet soda every day. Under the law, however, the FDA had no choice: the so-called Delaney amendment of 1958 to the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act forces...
Even so, the decision did little to bolster faith in science or Government. Wrote Lexie Harrington to the Portland Oregonian: "The scientists subject these animals to massive megadoses of the substance in question, which would kill an elephant, and then triumphantly -almost gleefully-announce that they have discovered cancer or other ailments developing in the test victims." Representative Andrew Jacobs Jr., an Indiana Democrat, sarcastically introduced a bill that would allow sales of saccharin-sweetened products under the label, "Warning: the Canadians have determined that saccharin is dangerous to your rats' health...
...reasonableness test" to the results of experiments like those on the saccharin-stuffed rats. There is little sentiment to repeal the Delaney amendment outright or to write detailed standards for the FDA to follow. Congressmen, says one Senate aide, dread being put in the position "of voting how much cancer is to be allowed in food." But public outrage against the saccharin ban is so vehement-in some congressional offices it accounted for two of every three letters and phone calls from constituents last week-as to make it likely that some exceptions to the Delaney amendment will be enacted...
When doctors discovered last March that the slight hardening in the right breast of Eugenie Blaschko was a malignancy and that the cancer had spread to adjoining lymph nodes, they urged her to undergo a mastectomy. But Blaschko, 56, an exercise buff who swims year round in the California surf near her Long Beach home, adamantly refused to let surgeons remove the breast. Says she: "I decided I'd rather live a few years less and keep what I have...
...Canadian experiment "unequivocally" showed a carcinogenic effect, but there are no reported cases of saccharin-induced bladder cancer in humans in the 70 years that saccharin has been on the market, Brown said...