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...questionable anticancer grounds, saccharin suddenly has more friends than an Irish bartender on St. Patrick's Day. Millions of skeptical Americans rushed to supermarkets last week to stock up on thousands of saccharin-sweetened products-diet soft drinks, canned fruits, desserts-before the FDA's ban goes into effect, which might happen on July 1. "We had our shelves almost cleaned off," said a Denver grocer, Ross McCotter. Said Houston Supermarket Owner John T. Butera: "A man called this morning and asked for 1,000 cases of Sweet'n Low. I told...
Most 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...
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...
...FDA has no choice but to follow the Delaney Clause," Kerr said yesterday...
...five scientists testified that they would not vote to support an FDA action banning the substitute from the market...