Word: saccharin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that long, scientists have tried to speed up the process by feeding huge amounts of suspect chemicals to laboratory animals such as mice. Typically they are given what is known as the maximum tolerated dose, an amount just below the lethal level. In the case of the artificial sweetener saccharin, mice were given the equivalent of hundreds of cans of diet soda a day; similarly, a person would have had to eat thousands of apples a day to get the maximum tolerated dose of Alar, a fruit-ripening chemical used by growers until it was withdrawn from the market because...