Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site floyd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!trb From: trb@floyd.UUCP Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Aspartame(tm?) questions Message-ID: <1839@floyd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Jul-83 14:51:01 EDT Article-I.D.: floyd.1839 Posted: Mon Jul 11 14:51:01 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Jul-83 20:30:48 EDT References: <227@burl.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany, NJ Lines: 10 Another cute memory about pumping rats full of nasties during testing. When the Canadian scientists pumped rats full of saccharin and said it caused cancer, there was a cartoon, I believe in Time magazine, which showed (approximately) a lab with two people talking and a bunch of bloated, bleary-eyed rats, the size of volleyballs, with their little feet sticking out of their spheroid masses. The caption had a researcher explaining "We fed them 300 cans of Tab a day and it caused cancer." Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491