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Brian H. MacMahon, Wolcott Professor of Epidemiology in the Faculty of Public Health, is serving on a panel which will evaluate the Food and Drug Administration's proposed saccharin ban for a Congressional committee...
...panel, chosen by the congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) met for the first time last weekend. It will report to the Senate Subcommittee on Health on the risks and benefits of saccharin consumption, and the availability of other sweeteners in a report due June...
...Unlike Saccharin. What are Carter's chances of mustering enough popular support to overcome the opposition? The portents so far are decidedly mixed. The President's popularity rating in opinion polls has risen, rather than falling sharply as he once said he feared it would when he announced the energy program. On the other hand, surveys taken by Pennsylvania-based Sindlinger & Co. in the past two weeks show the sharpest drop in consumer confidence in the economy since the Arab oil embargo of 1973. Chairman Albert Sindlinger blames confusion among consumers as to just what the energy program...
...plan, most of it favorable -almost as many letters as poured in last November when it temporarily dropped the popular Doonesbury comic strip. But on Capitol Hill, Congressmen almost unanimously described their energy mail as light to moderate. "It's an absolute drop in the bucket compared with saccharin," said Melody Miller, a Ted Kennedy aide...
EATING IS BAD for your health, to judge by the public controversy and fear which food has stirred up recently. The Saccharin Question has replaced the Cyclamate Debate, but the same anxieties over cholesterol count, caloric content and carcinogenic tendencies are being expressed. Widespread concern about our food and the need for that concern is evident in past and continuing controversies over mercury in fish, bug spray on tomatoes, too much sugar in baby food, bacterial contamination in canned and frozen foods, red dye in anything. The big swing towards "health foods" is an indicator of this consumer anxiety--every...