I remember in the mid 90’s that there was a controversy over the sugar subsitute saccharine. There was even warnings posted on the doors at the local walmart. I know that it had something to do with health effects. Could someone fill me in?
To my knowledge, it was thought to cause cancer because they pumped ridiculous amounts of it into rats (300+ cans per day of pop equivelant for humans) and they developed cancer.
It was later found that rats didn’t have certain enzymes necesary to process saccharine, and so it wouldn’t have the same effect on humans.
There is a bit of suspicious activity regarding the whole saccharine thing - the FDA management during the early 90s was very possibly corrupt, approved nutrasweet/aspartame under dubious circumstances, and then suddenly started running extreme tests to find fault in saccharine to help aspartame take over the market share.
Also, I seem to remember that regularly injecting water into mice/rats caused cancer. Seems that is their biological response to a high-stress environment.
I remember it being far back as the 70s.
Side note try Splenda it is way expensive but tastes WAY better than Equal (or the said generics)