Word: saccharine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WASHINGTON-The Food and Drug Administration [FDA] today will formally ban saccharin as a food additive. However, reports indicate that the FDA may permit the sale of saccharin as an over-the-counter drug...
...United States consumes more than five million pounds of saccharin annually, 7.5 percent of it in diet soft drinks...
...politicians, he returns reporters' calls promptly and always provides clever quips. When the House created an Ethics Committee last month in the wake of the conviction of two state senators for extortion, Frank said, "Peer policing doesn't even work at West Point. The Committee should be banned with saccharin as an artificial sweetener...
Public Outrage. More seriously, at least half a dozen bills were introduced into the House last week either to override the ban on saccharin or, more generally, to amend the Delaney amendment so that the FDA can apply some sort of "reasonableness test" to the results of experiments like those on the saccharin-stuffed rats. There is little sentiment to repeal the Delaney amendment outright or to write detailed standards for the FDA to follow. Congressmen, says one Senate aide, dread being put in the position "of voting how much cancer is to be allowed in food." But public outrage...
Long before then, industry will step up the search for saccharin alternatives. One clearly in sight, called Neo-DHC (neohesperidine dihydrochalcone-one trade name, SUKOR), has a lingering aftertaste with menthol overtones. It sweetens grapefruit juice or grapefruit-flavored soda; it is made from grapefruit and orange rinds. So far, it has had no adverse effect on rats or journalists who have sampled...