Word: saccharinity
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Seldom has that intrusion generated the outrage caused last month when the FDA announced that it planned to ban noncaloric saccharin as a food additive (TIME, March 21). Last week the FDA decided to hedge a little. Newly appointed Commissioner Donald Kennedy announced that the agency will go ahead with the ban, probably by midsummer -but will allow saccharin to be sold, like aspirin, as an over-the-counter drug, at least until the end of the year...
...original decree. It was also a somewhat clubfooted end run around the so-called Delaney clause of the 1958 amendments to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which dictates the banning of any food additives that cause cancer in humans or laboratory animals. In the case of saccharin, some Canadian rats developed bladder cancer when they were fed the sweetener in amounts that would be equivalent, in a human, to 800 cans of diet soda a day throughout his life. The Delaney clause, however, makes no mention of dosage levels. By considering saccharin a drug, the FDA allowed itself...
...latest ruling may add a further touch of cynicism to attacks against the FDA: If saccharin is unsafe in food, what makes it acceptable in a drugstore? Certainly, the ruling has helped to make some of the criticism more pointed...
...proof that the dye was unsafe but contended that manufacturers could not prove it was safe-even though the substance had been used for 100 years under the name of amaranth. The decision raised eyebrows but no great storm of disapproval, because substitutes were available. The response to the saccharin ban was different, since in 1969 the FDA banned cyclamates, the only other artificial sweetener that had been widely added to food...
...subcommittee on health resources and scientific research: "There is no accountability in decision making. The FDA must be reorganized internally." Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Ralph Nader-affiliated Public Citizen's Health Research Group in Washington, says of the agency's initial decision to ban saccharin altogether: "The FDA wrote up its intention in one hour and 20 minutes. The furor could have been avoided if they thought of public reaction. They blew...