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Or Red Herrings, Mole Hills, and Midstream Horses

JAMA. 1970;211(8):1368.

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The report to the secretary of HEW (p 1358) and a factual interpretation of this (p 1367) update the cyclamate status.

Medical investigation by government-assembled committee, or by public poll, today supplements investigation by the FDA, which in turn supplements that by the scientific laboratory. This has roughly been the sequence in the case of cyclamates, and an unusual approach to saving the healths of the nation, mothers, and unborn babes has been the result. After being used more than 12 years (usually with added saccharine) to spike diet foods and carbonated beverages, the decisions to ban cyclamates will have appeared abrupt to many Americans. If cyclamates are really dangerous, why did it take the FDA ten years to make the discovery?

Behind the decision lies a delicate irony, which although little voiced publicly, will have tickled the laugh-centers of some investigators. Argument from animal experiment to man is nowhere . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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