cyclamates

The WHO guideline name-checked common artificial sweeteners such as acesulfame K, aspartame, advantame, cyclamates, neotame, saccharin, sucralose, stevia and stevia derivatives.

So was it the cyclamates or the saccharin, or synergism between the two, that had raised the malignant-looking cells in the animals’ bladders?

Applying this dictum to the bladder tumours, the committees found that since saccharin has been used for longer than cyclamates without apparently harmful effects, it must have been the cyclamate which caused the tumours.

Dr. Epstein did not live his life in a bubble, but he sought to avoid tobacco, X-rays, pesticides, saccharin, talcum powder, cyclamates used as preservatives, hair spray with vinyl chloride, hot dogs dyed with nitrites, milk from cows injected with genetically engineered growth hormones and pajamas treated with a certain flame retardant — all of which he considered carcinogenic.

More recently, the federal Food and Drug Administration banned cyclamates as a carcinogen from 1970-1984 based on a flawed study of rats.