This product contains saccharin, which has been determined to cause cancer in laboratory animals.
If saccharin is removed from the carcinogen list, its warning label could be dropped as well.
Saccharin is an artifical sweetener that is 200 to 500 times sweeter than sugar.
For example, the Environmental Protection has thrown out a rule classifying saccharin as a dangerous substance.
The president pointed out that the EPA has long treated saccharin as a toxic chemical.
Oshana admits she joined the case after hearing about the saccharin switcheroo from fellow lawyers but denies this is lawyer-driven litigation.
Since 1981, saccharin has been listed in an "anticipated" human carcinogen category, based on evidence that included a Canadian study on rats.
Others filed copycat cases in at least five states, even after the government took saccharin off its list of suspected carcinogens in 2000.
For sheer chutzpah few cases exceed the attempted class actions against Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo for selling fountain drinks that contained small amounts of saccharin instead of aspartame sweetener.
According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the recommendation to keep saccharin on the carcinogen list or remove it will occur at a peer-reviewed committee meeting at the end of October.
There are a few companies out there who've tried their hands at show business: Starbucks' distribution of the saccharin "Akeelah and the Bee" and Eurostar's funding of Brit flick "Somers Town" are just two ad-hoc examples.
There were so many stores decorated with tinsel and streamers and balloons, selling little artificial fir trees, displaying gross Christmas cards hawkers had even set up on the sidewalks peddling these nauseous things (usually with pictures of a snowy scene in Vermont and some saccharin verse inside about ol' Jack Frost).
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