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Wednesday, March 30, 1977
University Dally Kansan
FDA savs no saccharin
By MISSY PETERSON
Staff Renorter
A slender model toasts the camera as the commercial announces the viewers
But in a recent decision, which has drawn less than favorable responses from legislators and private citizens, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said "no" to the diet cola—and Swetch. Sprinkle all other product containers containing
The FDA has accepted Canadian government tests that found cancer in rats fed large quantities of saccharin and banned the artificial sweetener from the diet.
As the last artificial sweetener approved for use in food, saccharin's departure would mean the disappearance of several products now on supermarket shelves.
REACTION TO the ban in Lawrence is apparent only in the sale of powdered and liquid artificial sweeteners, according to local grocers. Their assessments of the situation range from nonchalance to shocking stockpiling, stocked with products such as Sugar Twin, Sucaryl and Sweet 'n' Low, may soon be consciously empty.
Those displaying nonchalance haven't, as yet, been adversely affected by the ban. "I think they're getting better," she said. "The manager of Falley's, 252 Iowa St., said Friday."
According to Leatherman, since the proposed ban was announced two weeks ago, the store has had to order about 10 times as much artificial sweetener as it usually does, but each order has been promptly filled, keeping the shelves well-
LEATHERMAN SAID that he had seen no evidence of hoarding, but that most customers who bought artificial sweeteners and other three packages each time instead of one.
Kim Simmons, manager of Safety, 711
exited St. Louis his store hadn't
wired for it.
The Lawrence store buys from a central
warehouse in Kansas City, Kan., which stores. Apparently the supply is holding.
"I haven't heard any word from my office and we're still getting anything we want."
However, Joe Summer, head grocery clerk at Kroger Discount Foods, 23rd and Naimshi Drive said, "It was panic." He said that even brands of artificial sweeteners that people normally didn't buy had been cleaned off the shelf.
"PEOPLE CAME IN and bought everything," he said, "and all I know is that I can not get it in stock now. We got some in it in yesterday, but everything else is gone."
Hugh Ridway, grocery manager of Diller's 1312 W. 6th St., said that within half an hour after the store opened the morning after the ban was announced, every bottle and box of artificial sweetener was gone. Two subsequent orders were filled by the distributors, only to be snapped up by other products were put on the shelves, he said.
"We had people who were buying it a cart load at a time," Ridway said.
A THIRD order, placed about a week ago,
be said, was never filled and the store has
without artificial sweeteners ever since.
Saccharin products are unavailable at SACCHARIN, according to Jim Meyer, store manager.
"We ordered 10 cases last Friday," he said, "and now it's all gone—the warehouse."
often said many upset customers were asking, "What are we going to do?," a concern which resulted in stockpiling of the artificial sweeteners.
"Older people use much saccharine," he said. "They came in and bought as much as she."
questioned how seriously the ban would affect those on restricted diets, such as athletes.
Meyer said that many of Rusty's older customers were on restricted diets, and therefore were dependent on saccharin sweeteners.
"There are doctors who believe that sugar substitutes are essential," he said, "but I personally don't think that sugar is poisoned for diabetics."
HOWEVER, Martin Wollmann, physician and director of Watkins Hospital,
Scientifically, he said, the FDA decision can be argued both ways. However, Wollmann said he thought social and cultural factors should be considered. Many people who rely on sugar subscriptions be said, whether or not they physically need them.
THE SACCHARIN ban can be avidly debated, Wolmann said. If a substance causes cancer in a nonhuman subject, when administered in amounts much greater than the dose of the questionable whether that particular substance would cause cancer in a human
Ridgway said he thought the idea was a little silly, because it was impossible for a human to consume as much saccharin as the rats tested did.
Least concerned of the grocers was Leatherman. He said he wasn't worried about the ban because he was confident that the government would rescind the ban.
Bailes Mestizos, a Chicano dance company, will perform an evening of Mexican dance at 8 p.m. April 21 in Hoch Auditorium.
Mexican troupe to dance at KU
Also appearing with the dance troupe will be a marianchi band from Mexico.
The troupe's lead dancer, from Guadalajara, Mexico, is considered to be among the best in that area. Howard SUA fine arts director, said yesterday.
The group is touring the area under the sponsorship of the Topeka Arts Com
General admission tickets are $2.50 at the 3UA office in the Kansas Union.
By MARY MITCHELL LILLY
Staff Reporter
users say news is sour
Area saccharin users and scientists knowledgeable in the research involved in banning certain chemicals from the market generally oppose a recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ban on saccharin, begun after saccharin was linked to cancer in rats.
A more conclusive study linking cancer and the use of saccharin should be undertaken. Bea Brien, 602 W. 27th Ter. A young-old son is diabetic, said yesterday.
"I think the FDA's decision to ban saccharine is cruel and ridiculous." Brian said. "I don't think the researchers in Canada but through information to make such a decision."
The FDA's proposed ban, expected to go into effect in July, is based on a study by the Canadian government's health protection laboratory in Ottawa.
THE STUDY, which lasted three years, involved feeding rats saccharin in daily doses that amounted to 5 per cent of diet by weight. Of the 38 rats tested, seven developed blinder tumors—three of them humans—and think humans could be equated with rats.
"If all I read in the papers is true, how could one 12-year-old boy drink 40 to 50 cups of coffee a day?"
The amount of saccharin fed to the rats is equivalent to the consumption of 800 cans of diet soda each day for a lifetime by a human.
Kay Farrer, chairman of the Lawrence Metro unit of the American Diabetes Association, said, "The drinking of 800 cans of diet soda a day makes the FDA's ruling look foolish. A modification in the research is desired."
FARMER SAID the Diabetes Association had urged its members to write their congressmen requesting that the Delaney Act be changed and that the research be modified to a consumption more nearly enail that of humans.
The Delaney Amendment, added to the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act in 1968.
College Assembly passes tougher withdrawal policy
Students enrolled in courses in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will face a more stringent withdrawal policy following the vote taken by the College Assembly.
Eleanor Turk, assistant to the dean of the college, announced Monday that the returns of a mail vote taken by the assembly had resulted in the passage of a proposal to tighten withdrawal policies of the college. The vote was 279 to 179.
Under the new proposal, a student will have seven weeks from the first day of classes to withdraw from a liberal arts and humanities program. A member of an assembly committee to withdraw.
The committee will then study the request to determine whether it is valid, taking into account personal reasons for the request, or extended sickness and other complications.
week of class. There is no petition requirement under the present system.
The new policy will go into effect this fall on one-year trial banks. At the end of a year, all tribal banks will undergo Study and Advising will report its recommendations about the withdrawal.
The current policy allows a student to withdraw without penalty until the 12th
The new proposal has been before the assembly for debate for most of last month. Objections were made, mostly by students, that seven weeks wasn't a long enough time in which to decide whether to remain in a course.
requires that any food additive that causes cancer in man or animals be banned from use.
Many doctors think sugar substitutes aren't a vital part of diabetic diets, Martin Wollmann, physician and director of Watkins Hospital, said. Wollmann said the test hadn't proven that saccharin was cardiogenic, or cancer-causing, in man.
THE STUDY has to be repeated several times before any decision is made. *Mertens*
The proposal for the revision came after results of a faculty questionnaire, taken last year, showed that a majority of faculty were prepared tightening the withdrawal policy.
Paul Kites, professor of biochemistry and American Cancer Center Program liaison to the National Cancer Center campuses, said, "Congress passed the Delaware Amendment, so the FDA must
Turk said that there were many reasons for this general opinion, including a large number of withdrawals each year and a number of students weren't taking enrollment seriously.
"I think the FDA, as a holder of the public
decision, has increased by its recent
statement." Kilen and others.
Matthas Mertes, professor of pharmacy, said one 3-year experiment wasn't enough to justify the saccharin barb. Mertes is developing better drugs for cancer treatment.
"It's going to create real problems. Many diabetics, particularly children, will not be able to have their diet soda when the other children are drinking regular pop." Partner
The ban will make it difficult to control the diets of diabetic children, Mary Torneds, 2103 Maple Lane, said. Tornedes' daughter is a diabetic.
Kitos said the research itself was hard to evaluate because the entire study hadn't been done.
A recent Time magazine article said more than 10 million diabetics in the United States would suffer because of the results of one test and the ban by the FDA.
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"We should have the privilege of making up our own minds as we do with cigarettes. We want pop and cigarettes, we can take a chance," she said.
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after he heard the ban a few weeks ago, he said, he announced that he was going to several govery stores to buy a huge supply of suicidary gum.
Tornedes said she had heard that saccharin might be available on a prescription basis at druggists, but that such as things like vanilla gum would disappear from the market.
"I wanted to cry," she said. "If he can''
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Tornedes said that her daughter used sugarless gum to control her appetite for sweets and that the absence of the gum on her teeth could cause her daughter severe problems.
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Diabetics can't consume enough saccharin for the chemical to affect their blood sugar.
"THESE PEOPLE have have it to keep the lives going," she said, "Something much more."
She said that the group of Lawrence diabetics might petition the FDA to scrutinize the effects the ban would have on diabetics.
Brien said her son had been "alarmed" he read about the ban in the papers.
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