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...average man tell how much polyunsaturated fat he is getting? That is difficult, says Furman, since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has forbidden food manufacturers to state the polyunsaturated fat content on the labels of their cooking oils and margarines. The FDA contends that such a statement is meant as a health claim, and would be so regarded by consumers. The ban, says Furman, denies the buyer information to which he is entitled...
Last month, Food and Drug had a slight change of heart. On the strength of a report by a special committee of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, the FDA took down the "no limit" sign and suggested that adults should keep down their consumption to five grams a day. For those using only the tablets, this should be no problem, since virtually all of them contain only .05 gm. cyclamate. The safety ceiling would therefore be 100 tablets a day. With the soft drinks, the problem is trickier. Their cyclamate content varies, but it ranges...
Research to date has revealed no serious harmful effects of cyclamates in man. But far more interesting than what the FDA said was what it did not say. It made no mention of recent studies in its own laboratories in which a product of cyclamate metabolism, cyclohexylamine, causes breaks in the chromosomes of cells grown in the test tube. Injections cause similar damage to the chromosomes of rats. In terms of effects upon chromosomes in human beings-and therefore, upon future generations-no one knows just what this means. No matter how hard and fast the geneticists try to work...
Lest anyone conclude that medical quackery is only a foreign specialty, A.M.A. President Dwight L. Wilbur offered some sobering estimates of the annual take from the domestic variety. He cited the FDA's standard figure of about $1 billion a year but suggested that this covered only interstate quackery. Wilbur estimated that intrastate quackery, immune to federal authority, probably mulets the sick of another $1 billion...
Died. George P. Larrick, 66, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration from 1954 to 1965; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. As head of FDA, Larrick fought for stiffer regulations of food additives, in 1961 prevented the sale of thalidomide because the drug was believed to cause deformed babies, and in 1963 cracked down on the sponsors of Krebiozen, whose claim that their medicine could cure cancer was proved groundless after extensive tests...