Interstate and Foreign Commerce - Food Additive Safety Amendments (H.R. 5737), April 1977-1978

File — Box: LG 32, Folder: 26

Identifier: CAC_CC_109_7_32_26_0000

Staff Only

Letters to and responses from James R. Jones regarding the FDA's proposed ban on saccharin; Food Additive Safety Amendments (HR 5737, HR 5166); a bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to broaden the discretion of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare respecting certain food additives found to induce cancer in animals (HR 5361); a bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require appropriate tests before a food additive may be banned as inducing cancer in a man or animal and to permit the marketing of such an additive with appropriate warning labeling (HR 5156); a bill to direct the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a 1-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 18 months (HR 7599); Saccharin Study, Labeling and Advertising Act (S 1750); Public Law 95-203

Dates

April 1977-1978

Language of Materials

English

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