Guys,
Saccharin is not considered a carcinogen. It used to be considered a
suspect carcinogen -- that is no longer the case.
None of the approved artificial sweeteners have been found to cause cancer in humans. Some experiments found such associations with rats, in high doses. When you read this kidn of thing, realize that for safety testing the quantities used on the poor rats are orders of magnitude larger than those we consume.
This is from the National Cancer Institutes (US):
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/f...ial-sweeteners
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* Artificial sweeteners are regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
* There is no clear evidence that the artificial sweeteners available commercially in the United States are associated with cancer risk in humans.
* Studies have been conducted on the safety of several artificial sweeteners, including saccharin, aspartame, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, neotame, and cyclamate.
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Further down on the same page, on saccharin and cancer:
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Subsequent studies in rats showed an increased incidence of urinary bladder cancer at high doses of saccharin, especially in male rats.
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Because the bladder tumors seen in rats are due to a mechanism not relevant to humans and because there is no clear evidence that saccharin causes cancer in humans, saccharin was delisted in 2000 from the U.S. National Toxicology Program’s Report on Carcinogens, where it had been listed since 1981 as a substance reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen (a substance known to cause cancer).
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The delisting led to legislation, which was signed into law on December 21, 2000, repealing the warning label requirement for products containing saccharin.
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