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...that is ending. Last week the Food and Drug Administration rescinded its provisional approval of Red No. 2 because its safety could not be established. The FDA's most recent tests showed a significant increase in cancer among aged female rats that had been fed large doses of the dye. Commissioner Alexander Schmidt stressed that the FDA found "no evidence of a public health hazard" from products made with the dye; according to one manufacturer, a human would have to drink 7,500 12-oz. cans of soda pop containing Red No. 2 every day to reach the rats...
MacMahon refused to comment on the FDA action. "That's not my business," he said. Hoover, who was at a conference in Florida yesterday, could not be reached for comment...
This evidence, published by doctors from the University of Seattle and the Kaiser Institute in Los Angeles this fall, has led federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials to push for tighter restrictions on drugs containing estrogen...
...made from dried potatoes" must be labeled exactly that, and the last four words must appear on the can in type at least half as large as the words potato chip (on Pringle's cans they now appear in small print easy to overlook). For good measure, the FDA slapped a similar restriction on makers of other "restructured" foods, like fish sticks made from minced fish. To P.&G.'s competitors, it is a hollow victory: Pringle's, after all, can still call itself a potato chip, sort of. And because the FDA plans to issue some...
Schmidt, in fact, insists that the FDA can move quickly when it has to and will waste no time getting something like a proven anticancer drug or a more effective new antibiotic introduced in the U.S. But until such a product comes along, he will enforce his agency's standards, designed to be safe rather than fast...