Word: saccharine
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Since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took steps two weeks ago to ban it on questionable anticancer grounds, saccharin suddenly has more friends than an Irish bartender on St. Patrick's Day. Millions of skeptical Americans rushed to supermarkets last week to stock up on thousands of saccharin-sweetened products-diet soft drinks, canned fruits, desserts-before the FDA's ban goes into effect, which might happen on July 1. "We had our shelves almost cleaned off," said a Denver grocer, Ross McCotter. Said Houston Supermarket Owner John T. Butera: "A man called this morning and asked...
...decision to ban saccharin is based on the Delaney Amendment to the Food and Drug Act, which requires the FDA to ban any food substance that has been found to cause cancer in human beings or animals...
...Canadian experiment "unequivocally" showed a carcinogenic effect, but there are no reported cases of saccharin-induced bladder cancer in humans in the 70 years that saccharin has been on the market, Brown said...
...regulation should not apply to saccharin on the basis of available evidence, he said. "If you were going to see the carcinogenic effect of saccharin, you would have seen it by now," he added, disagreeing with Schneiderman's testimony...
...When so many jobs and lives are involved in the decision to ban saccharin, we should take a look at the Delaney Clause again," he said. Instead of a ban, saccharin manufacturers should advise users of the carcinogenic effects of the substance by a packaging label, he added...