The safety of saccharine

In the LA Times, Elena Conis has a really interesting story about food safety and saccharine—the artificial sweetener that's long been suspected of toxicity, despite multiple studies suggesting that it's safe in the low doses humans actually consume. The piece does a really good job of explaining why it's so hard to gauge the long-term health impacts of something like saccharine. If you've ever wondered how people can have wildly different positions on the safety of a given chemical, this will help make sense of the confusion.

The safety of saccharine

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