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Carcinogenicity of saccharin in laboratory animals and humans: Letter to Dr. Harry Conacher of Health Canada

  1. Author:
    Bell, W.
    Clapp, R.
    Davis, D.
    Epstein, S.
    Farber, E.

  2. Author Address

    Canadian Assoc Phys Environm, Salmon Arm, BC, Canada Canadian Assoc Phys Environm, Salmon Arm, BC, Canada Boston Univ, Dept Environm Hlth, Boston, MA 02215 USA World Resources Inst, Hlth Environm & Dev Program, Washington, DC 20006 USA Univ Illinois, Sch Publ Hlth, Med Ctr, Chicago, IL 60680 USA Thomas Jefferson Univ, Jefferson Med Coll, Philadelphia, PA 19107 USA Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Univ Houston, Houston, TX 77004 USA Univ Guelph, Dept Human Biol & Nutr Sci, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada Ctr Sci Publ Interest, Washington, DC USA Ctr Sci Publ Interest, Ottawa, ON, Canada Frederick Canc Res Ctr, Pathol Lab, Chem Carcinogenesis Program, Frederick, MD USA Univ Sussex, Sci Policy Res Unit, Brighton BN1 9RH, E Sussex, England NCI, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA Athabasca Univ, Ctr Nat & Human Sci, Athabasca, AB, Canada Bell W Canadian Assoc Phys Environm, Salmon Arm, BC, Canada
    1. Year: 2002
  2. Journal: International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health
    1. 8
    2. 4
    3. Pages: 387-393
  4. Type of Article: Article
  1. Abstract:

    We appreciate this opportunity to provide input to the Health Protection Branch's (HPB's) review of the artificial sweetener saccharin. Concerns with regard to the safety of saccharin are of great public. health significance and of great interest to the public because saccharin is consumed by tens of millions of people, including children and fetuses. Any evidence of carcinogenesis-and there is ample such evidence-of such a widely used chemical should spur health officials to minimize human exposure to it. It is worth noting that on October 31, 1997, the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Toxicology Program, a unit of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), voted not to delist saccharin from its Report on Carcinogens.dagger

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