Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.5 $; site ccvaxa Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!seefromline From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: The Perils of Nutrasweet Message-ID: <700002@ccvaxa> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 12:05:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.700002 Posted: Fri Jul 12 12:05:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 15:17:14 EDT References: <394@petrus.UUCP> Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #R:petrus.UUCP:-39400:ccvaxa:700002:000:405 Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!preece Jul 12 11:05:00 1985 > The claim was that nutrasweet was pushed through the FDA very quickly > (and not without substantial pressure from some chemical company which > makes almost all of it), with a minimum of studys and testing. ---------- I'm reasonably sure that aspartame was reported in _Science_ in 1973. Time to FDA approval is, therefore, about 11 years. This is a rush? -- scott preece ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece