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ELIZABETH M. WHELAN is currently Executive Director of the American Council on Science and Health. She received a Doctor of Science from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1971. She is moderator of "Healthline," a nationally syndicated radio program and contributing editor toAmerican Baby Magazine. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Food and Drug Law Institute, American Cancer Society's National Committee on Cancer Prevention and Detection, National Agricultural Legal Fund, and Media Institute. She is also on the Advisory Committee (Pesticides and Toxics) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection, USDA, the U.S. Committee of Vital Statistics, Department of Health and Human Services, and a member of the Academy of Medicine, New Jersey. She has published a number of books and papers on nutrition and health.
WILLIAM R. HAVENDER is currently a private consultant on environmental carcinogens, and previously was a research biochemist at the University of California at Berkeley, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Genetics in 1970. He is a member of the Board of Scientific Advisors of the American Council on Science on Health, and past president of the Economics Round Table of San Francisco. His articles have appeared inRegulation, The American Spectator, Dissent, The Public Interest, Political Psychology, The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Environmental Health Perspectives, Molecular and General Genetics, The Cato Journal, Reason, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, USA Today, andThe Los Angeles Times. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.
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Whelan, E.M., Havender, W.R. Saccharin and the public interest. Agric Hum Values 3, 74–82 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01530533
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