Word: saccharine
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...fundamental subject of people's health. The question: Should state legislatures make an end run around federal bureaucrats and legalize the use of drugs that the Food and Drug Administration has banned or not yet approved? They are Laetrile, an unproved anticancer nostrum, dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), Gerovital and saccharin...
...sign authorizing bills or let them become law without their signatures. Similar legislation is pending in twelve states and will probably be revived in seven others when their legislatures reconvene. In addition, Nevada has approved the manufacture and sale of Gerovital. Oregon has legalized DMSO and soon may approve saccharin, which has already been okayed by Indiana. (Apparently heeding FDA warnings that saccharin may cause cancer, legislators in Arizona and Nevada rejected bills to legalize the sweetener...
...license those that are manufactured and used within their boundaries in spite of federal disapproval. In fighting against the drugs, federal health officials have suffered from their loss of some public respect following the false swine-flu scare and the FDA'S proposed restrictions on the sale of saccharin. The agency acted after the laboratory rats which were fed huge quantities of the substance then developed cancer...
...broader consensus opposed the ban on saccharin imposed by the federal Food and Drug Administration. An impressive 75% of those questioned said that instead of banning the sweetener, the Government should mandate labels warning of its potential dangers and should allow consumers to decide for themselves whether or not to use it. Moreover, 53% said it was wrong to ban saccharin since the evidence of its harmfulness to humans is too skimpy...
...consumer movement's brainchild, they do not prove that it is totally without merit. It may be difficult to determine in all cases what the consumer interest is, but it is better to represent consumers imprecisely than not at all. On the big questions--nuclear power plant siting, saccharin in foods, fluoride in the water--consumers are adequately represented. Newspapers publicize these issues, consumer groups agitate over them, and concerned citizens write their congressmen about them. But on the regulations that escape public attention--regulations determining the width of crib slats, the amount of effluent to be dumped...