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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Re: expecting father & nutrasweet
Message-ID: <208@omen.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 13:37:27 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 31 13:37:27 1985
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In article <428@petrus.UUCP> mwg@petrus.UUCP (Mark Garrett) writes:
>++
>> Perhaps a product which is a mixture of cyclamates and some weak poison
>> could be approved.  The purpose of the poison would be to inhibit cancerous
>> growths by gigadoses of the material as was done with saccahrin and/or
>> cycalamates.
>
>Hey people, does this guy make any sense to you?  Or is it just me?

The crux of the matter is the "Delaney Amendment" which forbids the use of
any product which has been shown to cause cancer IN ANY CONCENTRATION.

The addition of the poison would kill the animal before the level of the
suspected carcinogen was high enough to cause a detectable effect.

As I recall from articles I've read, you cannot inject rats with megadoses
of sugar because the animals would simply die, therefore you can't test
sugar the same way you can saccahrin.
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