Word: delaney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 it to ban any food additives that produce cancer in humans or laboratory animals, no matter what the dosage...
Public Outrage. More seriously, at least half a dozen bills were introduced into the House last week either to override the ban on saccharin or, more generally, to amend the Delaney amendment so that the FDA can apply some sort of "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...
...choice but to follow the Delaney Clause," Kerr said yesterday...
...universal applicability of the Delaney Clause should be re-examined, Kerr said yesterday. "Although the intent of the clause is super, it is a ridiculous law in pure form," he added...
...When so many jobs and lives are involved in the decision to ban saccharin, we should take a look at the Delaney Clause again," he said. Instead of a ban, saccharin manufacturers should advise users of the carcinogenic effects of the substance by a packaging label, he added...