CHEM 181 Lecture Notes - Ira Remsen, Food Additives Amendment Of 1958, Saccharin

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Sugar- suposed to rot our teeth and main culprit associated with obesity. Country with highest use of artificial sweeteners- u. s. (durr) They consume roughly half of all non-nutritive sweeteners in the world. His graduate student (fahlberg) got some on his hand, tasted it, and noticed it was sweet. Student patented the product behind remsen"s back! (shiiiet) Brought saccharin and put on market in u. s. 500 times as sweet as sugar :o. Other substances added to to cut down on bitter after taste, thus 300x sweeter than sugar. But still available as a table-top sweetener in pharmacies. Any substance that has been shown to cause cancer under any circumstances cannot be put on the market. Initially the food and drug administration banned saccharin from u. s. Eventually a special law passed to override this clause in saccharin"s case! Issue of animal study! comparative to humans, we"d have to drink 800 cans of saccharin to get cancer!

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