Word: saccharine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anyone afflicted with a craving for saccharin in a cup of coffee or on a bowl of breakfast cereal, there is good news. The Senate last week moved to permit its continued use by a vote of 94 to 1. Easy approval is expected in the House...
...controversy over saccharin, which is produced by Cleveland-based Sherwin-Williams, began in 1977, when the Food and Drug Administration linked extremely large doses of the artificial sweetener to bladder cancer in laboratory animals. As a result, the FDA proposed that the use of saccharin be outlawed. Congress thwarted the agency's move by giving the product an exemption from a federal law that prohibits the sale of any substance found to cause cancer in animals or humans. That reprieve ran out last month...
...company could trade off the famous name. He was right. The following year, Coke launched a caffeine-free regular and diet Coke. In March came Cherry Coke. To counter slipping sales of Tab, its older diet soda, Coke changed the sweetener last year to a combination of NutraSweet and saccharin, giving it a crisper taste. The company received thousands of letters from irate Tab drinkers, but Tab's sales have since stabilized...
...ulcer drug. Aspartame-sweetened Diet Rite and diet Coke have already been sold in Canada, and diet Coke has also quenched thirsts in Ireland and Scandinavia, but the U.S. introduction had been held up by the FDA, which was wary after its approval years earlier of cyclamates and saccharin. Aspartame won FDA acceptance in 1974, only to be pulled back after some scientists voiced concern that the substance might cause brain damage...
Aspartame's biggest remaining problem is its cost. It is 20 times as expensive as saccharin...