Congressional Hearing on Saccharin Ban Moratorium (1977)

Original title: Moratorium on saccharin ban: hearing before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session on H.R. 7753 (and all identical bills) bills to direct the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a one-year review and evaluation of all available information respecting the toxicity and carcinogenicity of food additives, including information respecting the ability to predict the effect on humans of food additives found to cause cancer in animals and whether there should be a weighing of risks and benefits in making regulatory decisions respecting such additives, and to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to permit the continued use of Saccharin as a food, food additive, drug, and cosmetic for eighteen months, H.R. 8012 a bill respecting the continued use of saccharin as a food, food additive, drug, and cosmetic, and for other purposes, H.R. 5166 (and all identical bills) bills to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize an evaluation of the risks and benefits of certain food additives and to permit the marketing of saccharin until such an evaluation can be made it (and all other similar or identical bills) June 27, 1977.