Thinker wrote:


Something like when they banned sacharin as a sugar substitute. They fed
the rats an equivalent of 500 cups of coffee a day and .01% more rats got
cancer than if they had not been fed sacharin. But the people pushing
the new stuff got the old stuff banned.

I think you mean cyclamates. Saccharin is still in use, and sold as
"Sweet-N-Low".

Bob Weiss N2IXK