US National Cancer Institute; http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/artificial-sweeteners
Saccharin (quotes)
"1970s linked saccharin with the development of bladder cancer"
"Congress mandated that further studies of saccharin be performed and required that all food containing saccharin bear the following warning label: "Use of this product may be hazardous to your health. This product contains saccharin, which has been determined to cause cancer in laboratory animals.""
"Because the bladder tumors seen in rats are due to a mechanism not relevant to humans, and because there is no clear evidence that saccharin causes cancer in humans, saccharin was delisted in 2000 from the U.S. National Toxicology Program's Report on Carcinogens"
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
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