Food additives data book - wordpres

Sweeteners 966
Canadian Food and Drugs Act and Regulations, 1994.
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Van Nostrand Reinhold.
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ANY OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION: Discovered accidentally by Fahlberg and Remsen in 1879 at Johns Hopkins University. First
manufactured in 1884 as an antiseptic and preservative; first commercial patent for manufacture in
1885. Sold as a sweetener in 1900. Was banned for use in food and drinks in Germany in 1898 and in
the US in 1912. Was reapproved during World War I due to a sugar shortage.
Synthesised commercially from toluene; one of the most widely used sugar substitutes in the world;
was the first high-intensity sweetener to be marketed.
Use of saccharin :cyclamate blends ended with cyclamate ban in 1970.