Key Vote 95th Congress > Senate > Vote 382
Description: TO PASS S. 1750.
Bill summary: (Conference report filed in House, H. Rept. 95-810)
Saccharin Study and Labeling Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to conduct a study to assess: (1) current technical capabilities to predict the toxic or carcinogenic effect on humans of substances which have induced cancer in animals; (2) public health benefits and risks of food containing such substances; (3) existing means of evaluating such benefits and risks, and the validity of such analysis; (4) instances in
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which restrictions on such substances do not accord with benefit-risk analysis; and (5) the relationship between Federal regulatory policies concerning the use of such substances for food and nonfood purposes.
Directs the Secretary to request the National Academy of Sciences, or other public or private nonprofit organizations, to conduct the study.
Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of saccharin and other nonnutritive sweeteners to determine; (1) any impurities in saccharin; (2) the toxic and carcinogenic effects of such impurities; and (3) the health benefits of saccharin and other nonnutritive sweeteners.
Requires the Secretary to report, within one year of enactment, to the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and to the Senate Committee on Human Resources the results of such study. Requires the Secretary to report, within 15 months of enactment, the results of the assessment conducted under this Act, together with recommendations for legislation deemed necessary.
Prohibits the Secretary from restricting (except for labeling requirements allowed under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) the sale or distribution of saccharin, or any food, drug, or cosmetic containing saccharin for 18 months.
States that foods containing saccharin shall be deemed to be misbranded unless such foods carry a conspicuous warning of the possible hazards to human health.
Authorizes the Secretary to promulgate regulations requiring retail establishments, where saccharin, or any drug, food, or cosmetic containing saccharin is sold, to display prominently, during the 18 month period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, a notice of saccharin's possible health risks.
Authorizes the Secretary by regulation to require that saccharin sold through a vending machine contain such warning notice.
Extends for six months the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research.
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Bill titles: An Act to require studies concerning carcinogenic and other toxic substances in food, the regulation of such food, the impurities in and toxicity of saccharin, and the health benefits, if any, resulting from the use of nonnutritive sweeteners; to prohibit for 18 months the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from taking certain action restricting the continued use of saccharin as a food, drug, and cosmetic; to require certain labels and notices for foods containing saccharin; and for other purposes.; A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended, to conduct studies concerning toxic and carcinogenic substances in foods, to conduct studies concerning saccharin, its impurities and toxicity and the health benefits, if any, resulting from the use of nonnutritive sweeteners including saccharin; to ban the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from taking action with regard to saccharin for eighteen months, and to add additional provisions to section 403 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended, concerning misbranded foods.
Original source documents: Digest of the Congressional Record vol. 123-143, p. 14999;
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