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...Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ban on the use of saccharine in foods and beverages because it allegedly causes cancer has stirred controversy among physicians and concern among some students threatened with the loss of their favorite diet soft drinks...
Local cancer and nutrition experts yesterday disagreed on the validity of a Canadian study, cited in support of the ban by FDA officials, that finds saccharine to be carcinogenic...
...former Nader employee), initiated a grievance proceeding and publicized his case. His accusations led to a General Accounting Office investigation and to Senate hearings, which in turn led to a major shakeup in the vaccine regulatory agency. The Bureau of Biologics was revamped and transferred from NIH to the FDA, and in 1972 a grievance panel reinstated Morris and censured the agency for harassing...
While Morris's boss wanted him fired for "insubordination" and "inefficiency," an independent hearing examiner ruled that Morris's infractions were minor, and that the scientist should be suspended for at most five days. But Alexander M. Schmidt, then Commissioner of the FDA, overruled the examiner, and on July 16, 1976, J. Anthony Morris was fired...
There are, however, medical experts like Ann R. Kennedy, research fellow in Radiobiology, who "avoids carcinogens like the plague." Kennedy has shunned artificially dyed foods for years, so the new FDA bannings didn't surprise...