A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that any action respecting nitrites by the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare because of any carcinogenic effect that nitrites may be represented to have should be delayed until after the completion of the study required by the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act.

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Declares that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare should take no action to prohibit the sale, distribution, or use of nitrites as a food preservative solely on the basis of any carcinogenic effect they may be represented to have in humans, until three months after the submission of the results of the study required by the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act.

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  summary · EN · 16 August 1978

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