We are maintaining the present regulation which insists on not more than a certain amount of saccharin in all soft drinks and food.
Apart from sugar, glucose and allied carbonhydrates, the only sweetening agent at present in use is saccharin.
Can we have a debate on that, because what have been called sweeteners seem to be saccharin—a substitute for the real thing?
Other studies in progress, including ones of saccharin usage by man, will be reviewed as and when their results become available.
This ban is part of compositional requirements and has nothing to do with the safety of cyclamates or saccharin.
The more cynical, however, may well say that cyclamates are more widely used in some of these articles, because they are cheaper than saccharin.
The use of saccharin is already permitted in food.
It was that the shop concerned had two suppliers of saccharin tablets.
