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Last week the Food and Drug Administration condemned cyclamates as possibly dangerous to health and effectively banned their widespread use in the U.S. Robert Finch, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, ordered that all foods and drinks containing the artificial sweetener be removed from grocers' shelves and soft-drink vending channels no later than Feb. 1. In the case of products containing the largest proportions of cyclamates, the deadline is Jan. 1. The effects of this abrupt order on food and drink manufacturing, processing, distribution and marketing will be enormous (see BUSINESS...
Robert H. Finch, Secretary of HEW, congratulated Luria by telegram following last week's Nobel presentation. "You have amply earned the gratitude of all Americans," he said...
Representatives of 27 scientific and legal organizations drafted the Committee statement, to be sent to Finch today. It condemns as "carried over from the 1950's" the continued use of "security and suitability" criteria often related to political beliefs or personal associations...
Britain's minister of agriculture asked the U.S. for a report on its tests on cyclamates. This action followed an announcement Friday by U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Robert H. Finch that all cyclamates must be removed from the U.SC. market by the end of this year...
...Verrett was furious. "My studies were not false," she said, insisting that on the basis of her work and that of her associate, Dr. Marvin Legator, cyclamate may well produce deformities, transmissible mutations or cancer-or all three. "Mr. Finch does not seem to consider that the next species might be human. It's impossible to predict what the effects might be in other animal species, including man, but the fact that we do have a positive result indicates the need for further investigation of its effects." Dr. Verrett accused the FDA of dragging its feet, pointing out that...