Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After recent tests conducted in Canada found that large doses of saccharin caused bladder cancer in rats, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a ban on the artificial sweetener to take effect within 120 days...
...suggested that the FDA declare saccharin a drug, allowing physicians to prescribe it for diabetics and obese people, while limiting the sweetener's widespread dangers...
...decision to ban saccharin is based on the Delaney Amendment to the Food and Drug Act, which requires the FDA to ban any food substance that has been found to cause cancer in human beings or animals...
Kuehnle, who is also clinical director of the alcohol and drug abuse research center at McLean Hospital in Belmont, said the 1971 study is not totally valid since the painful process used in the testing, pneumoencephalograms, involves injecting air into the brain and could conceivably cause further brain damage...
Until then, the search for sugar substitutes will continue on a largely hit-or-miss basis. One chemical, called aspartame, was found by G.D. Searle & Co. during research on an ulcer drug. The FDA had approved aspartame's sale, but stayed that action pending a new look at Searle's test data. Another contender to succeed saccharin is a chemical called xylitol; used as a chewing-gum sweetener in tests in Finland and the U.S., it sharply reduced formation of cavities. But it costs more than sugar and has the same number of calories...