"We have appeared to waffle it," fretted HEW Secretary Robert Finch. Some people in the Food and Drug Administration, he said, "have been overzealous" in their warnings, while "others have gone too far the other way." Finch had good reason to be disturbed; there was growing confusion last week about the latest flare-up in the controversy over the safety of a substance that millions of Americans consume daily: the artificial sweetener, cyclamate.
At the center of the cyclamate hassle was Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, a veteran FDA research scientist who, since 1966, has been...
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