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...safety and approved its use in a broad range of juice drinks, frozen desserts, canned and instant teas and breath mints. NutraSweet can currently be found in more than 130 different products, from Jell-O to diet Coke, but the lucrative new markets represent a major expansion of FDA approval...
Consumer-advocate groups had contended that aspartame was linked to many adverse reactions, including dizziness, depression and seizures. But the FDA said that aspartame had been found safe for the vast majority of people, except for a small number who appear to be especially sensitive to it. Aspartame's critics promised to take their case to court...
...AIDS patients and carriers of the virus. Perhaps the best news for AIDS patients last week was that shipments of azidothymidine, the experimental drug produced by Burroughs Wellcome Co. of Research Triangle Park, N.C., were arriving at twelve medical centers around the nation. The centers are awaiting the imminent FDA approval of the drug for use on those whom it seems to help most, the 6,000 AIDS patients who have also suffered a recent attack of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. Interim results of clinical trials with AZT were so promising that the tests were halted in September for ethical reasons...
...number of Oculinum patients are pressing the Food and Drug Administration to approve the drug for market soon, believing that such a decision might ease insurers' fears. But the FDA is adamant about following proper procedures. Says Deputy Commissioner John Norris: "We can't make new standards just for Scott's product...
...really sympathize with the situation," said John Cipriano, Department Director for the Office of Biologics Research and Review of the FDA. "But obviously, we can't waive all the rules either," he said. He said the drug was currently being evaluated by the licensing committee and the advisory committee...