Saccharin Study and Labeling Act

Summary

Saccharin Study, Labeling, and Advertising Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct 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 substanced 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 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 Institute of Medicine of 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 complete both studies within one year and submit the results to the Senate Committee on Human Resources and the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce within 30 days of such completion date. 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 eighteen months, unless the Secretary determines that saccharin presents an unreasonable and substantial public risk. Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem a food containing saccharin misbranded if it is (1) without a specified warning conspicuously placed on the label or package; (2) sold in a vending machine without such statement conspicuously displayed on the machine; (3) sold at a retail establishment not having prominently displayed near such food a statement prepared by the Secretary including information on the current state of knowledge concerning saccharin; (4) advertised in any electronic communications medium subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission without such advertisement having all the information necessary for a retail establishment statement; and (5) advertised by written communication without the specified warning, conspicuously located in the advertisement.

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• Public Law (PDF)

  Public Law · EN · 24 November 1977

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• Conference report filed in House

  summary · EN · 3 November 1977

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 23 June 1977

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