Word: nutrasweet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enterprises and ministries, which staged a four-day conference in Moscow in April to talk about prospective joint ventures. In a display of Madison Avenue glitz, council members from the U.S. gave their Soviet counterparts a crash course in marketing that included razzle-dazzle TV commercials for Diet Coke, NutraSweet and the American Express Card. Gorbachev invited the U.S. visitors to the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses for a seven-course feast of caviar, pheasant, grouse and other delicacies. After exchanging toasts with the capitalists, the Soviet leader described perestroika as an "invitation" to a business partnership with the West...
Without calling NutraSweet a definite health threat, Steven Farber of MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Science and the Technology Policy Program said the current testing system which relies on chemical companies to police themselves is "inadequate...
Farber's comments came before an audience of 30 in a speech sponsored by Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO), entitled "Are We the Dupes of the NutraSweet Company? The Politics and Chemistry of Artificial Sweetners...
...example, Farber said NutraSweet was nottested with the substances with which itfrequently occurs, like caffeine, despite the factthat the threat of drug interaction is commonlyknown...
...NutraSweet was initially approved in themid-1970s by the FDA with a warning forphenylketoneurics, those whose bodies cannothandle the presence of phenylalanine, an aminoacid...