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...seven years ago, which left saccharin as the only FDA-approved artificial sweetener. In recent Canadian tests, some rats that were fed enormous doses of saccharin developed bladder cancer. To take in an equivalent amount of saccharin, a human would have to drink at least 800 cans of diet soda every day. Under the law, however, the FDA had no choice: the so-called Delaney amendment of 1958 to the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act forces it to ban any food additives that produce cancer in humans or laboratory animals, no matter what the dosage...
...make it likely that some exceptions to the Delaney amendment will be enacted. Representative Barbara Mikulski, a Baltimore Democrat and a dieter who has "just lost 50 pounds," says that the saccharin ban reminds her of Prohibition: "People will use the stuff anyway. I can envision speakeasies selling diet soda...
Long before then, industry will step up the search for saccharin alternatives. One clearly in sight, called Neo-DHC (neohesperidine dihydrochalcone-one trade name, SUKOR), has a lingering aftertaste with menthol overtones. It sweetens grapefruit juice or grapefruit-flavored soda; it is made from grapefruit and orange rinds. So far, it has had no adverse effect on rats or journalists who have sampled...
...Sherwin-Williams Co. of Cleveland, the sole U.S. producer of saccharin, whose output accounts for 65% of the 8 million lbs. consumed yearly by Americans. Researchers pointed to the enormous quantities of saccharin fed the test rats-equivalent to consumption by a human of some 800 cans of diet soda each day over a lifetime. Said Duke University Biochemist Henry Kamin: "The dosages are so large that the result means nothing." In Albany, N.Y., Dr. Frederick Coulston revealed that his tests on monkeys-much closer to humans than are rats-revealed no harmful effects. Said he: "We gave saccharin...
...Soda, chips, coffee and doughnuts will round out the menu for dedicated tube watchers...