Word: health
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...Jean Mayer, professor of Nutrition at the School of Public Health, told a Women's National Press Club luncheon last Thursday that high concentrations of the ingredient have caused extensive brain damage in infant mice...
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Robert H. Finch has ordered his department to destroy any blacklists barring scientists for political reasons from positions as HEW consultants...
...York Times reported Monday that 45 scientists-including five from Harvard, nine from Yale, and M.I.T. Nobel Laureate Salvatore E. Luria-have been placed recently on a blacklist for the National Institute of Health (NIH). In addition, 48 scientists have been blacklisted by HEW for several years, the article said...
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...
...that cyclamates cause cancer in animals. At the same time, he emphasized that there is as yet "no evidence that they have indeed caused cancer in humans." HEW, he said, was being prudent, and will now check other food additives to see whether they may be harmful to human health...