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Article: Saccharin: bittersweet.(includes related article on other sweeteners)
- Article from:
- Nutrition Action Healthletter
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
- Author:
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"It's been around a long time. I'm not concerned about the safety," says Josh Rosenbaum, a 27-year-old meeting planner in Washington, D.C. "Rats are one thing, people are another."
"I think of cancer in rats," says Amie Chant, an agribusiness consultant in McLean, Virginia. "I don't buy saccharin."
Ask anyone about saccharin and the mixed reactions seem to parallel the scientific debate. Twenty-one years after researchers confirmed that the sugar substitute causes cancer in animals, controversy still rages.
Are the little pink packets of Sweet'N Low--or the dozens of foods made with saccharin--safe for humans? The evidence is anything but ...