Saturday, 4 November 2023

Sodium Cyclamate

 

                                                                            Michael Sveda

 
 
In 1937 Michael Sveda a graduate student at the University of Illinois was working in the lab on the synthesis of anti-fever medication.

One day in the laboratory of Prof. Audrieth, he picked up a cigarette lying on his lab bench, put it in his mouth, and discovered that it tasted surprisingly sweet.

Sveda then tasted every substance in sight and traced the sweetness to a compound known as sodium cyclohexylsulfamate. Five years later, Sveda and his professor obtained a patent and assigned the rights to DuPont, Sveda's new employer.
 
After some initial development by DuPont, cyclamate was taken up (under licence) by Abbott Laboratories, a pharmaceutical firm in North Chicago that hope to produce a sweetener suitable for diabetics and other people on sugar restricted diets.

This substance, which proved to be approximately 30 times sweeter than sugar, was first marketed in 1949 as sodium cyclamate in tablet form for use by diabetics.



Sodium cyclamate
 
In November 1959, cyclamate was place in the Food and Drug Administration’s list of GRAS. Cyclamate is approved as a sweetener in at least 130 countries while it is currently banned in the United States.
 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 Sodium Cyclamate To Cyclohexylamine
 
Cyclohexylamine = Carcinogen
 
 
 
Cyclamic Acid Carcinogenesis
 
 Cyclamic Acid aka Chemical Carcinogen (Promoter Carcinigen)
 

 Other Chemical Carcinogens


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