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From: cej@ll1.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Nutrasweet Dangers?
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Date: Wed, 18-Jan-84 22:29:13 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 18 22:29:13 1984
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	I have just heard that there may be some dangers associated
with the relatively new sweetener Nutrasweet. (I couldn't possibly
spell the generic name.), and that it may have been railroaded
through he FDA.  I just saw the tail end of the news, and didn't get
any of the details.  Has anybody heard anything definite about this?

	If it is really dangerous, it wouldn't surprise me, what
with the batting average as far as artificial sweeteners go.  To
bad, though, since from what I heard, Nutrasweet was the first
product of a "new wave" of drugs, produced by computer "modeling" of
chemical structure.  If I'm not mistaken, Nutrasweet was "designed"
to have a face that would fit into the sugar taste bud receptor.

	I wonder if people (and the FDA) will be unduly afraid of
other products produced by this technology.  I would think that the
only reason that this one would have been railroaded through, was
because of the profit in it, and that other less profitable drugs
would be tested further before they are released.

		* Nutrasweet is the trademark of someone


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