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Cyclamates(E952)

Level 4 — Significant concernsIn Winter's Dictionary

Cyclamates is a artificial sweetener — Artificial sweetener about 30x sweeter than sugar

Also: Sodium cyclamate, Calcium cyclamate

What it does

Artificial sweetener about 30x sweeter than sugar

Where you'll see it

Formerly chewing gum, soft drinks

What the research says

Found to cause bladder cancer in rats. FDA Cancer Assessment Committee later reportedly indicated neither cyclamate nor cyclohexylamine cause cancer, but still banned.

Regulatory status

  • US FDA: BAN
  • EU: approved
  • Notes: Removed from food market Sept 1969 (bladder cancer in rats); FDA put Abbott petition in abeyance in 2003; still banned in U.S. and Norway

Sources

  • A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives (Winter): removed from the food market on September 1, 1969, because they were found to cause bladder cancer in rats