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Elderly Ailment. Inflammation of the brain−which leads to fever, convulsions and, in some cases, death−can be caused by any of a large variety of viruses or bacteria or can follow a wide range of other illnesses. But the bugs responsible for the current outbreak of encephalitis are unique. They are "arboviruses," a contraction for arthropod-borne viruses. The arthropod that carries the virus is, in this case, an insect with jointed feet−the common mosquito−that has been particularly numerous and active in large areas of the U.S. this year. Mosquitoes pick...
...naturally in five years. The secret: addition of clean, dry starch to plastic polymers. "By putting in the starch," explains Inventor Gerald J.C. Griffin, a teacher of plastics technology at Brunei University, "we are adding carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. The bags will act as a carbon source for soil bacteria, breaking down into humus and carbon dioxide." Griffin's process, which can be used for most plastic products, has a powerful appeal beyond reducing long-lived litter. Because starch costs much less than polymer plastics, the process saves money -up to $4.50 per 1,000 bags right...
...Queens, "an adulterated food product." According to Brooklyn District Attorney Eugene Gold, that means Good Humor sold millions of Wildberry Whammy, X-5 Jetstar Grape, Orange Push-Up and Chocolate Fudge Cake cones, bars and other ice cream confections containing far more than the legally allowable quantity of coliform bacteria. The bacteria are commonly found in drinking water and dairy products; in small amounts they are nontoxic, but large quantities of them can cause illness. Gold says that bacteria-laden Good Humors were sold throughout the Eastern seaboard and as far west as Kansas...
...Bacteria Count. If convicted, Good Humor faces fines of $1.8 million. Donald Kennedy, now on leave as production director, faces a six-month jail sentence; James Jerram, former manager of quality control, could be jailed for four years. Jerram is on leave from Good Humor's parent, Thomas J. Lipton Inc., which is itself a unit of the Dutch-based multinational Unilever. Good Humor General Counsel David St. Clair says the company is "not guilty...
...says Gold, 4,000 to 5,000 documents containing coliform counts on batches of ice cream were destroyed. Investigators nonetheless maintain that they discovered the plant kept two sets of quality-control records: a false one to show state inspectors and an elaborately coded secret set containing true bacteria counts for the company's own use. The secret books showed coliform counts on some batches of ice cream 200 times as high as the law allows. Worse, many other batches were labeled TNTC -meaning that the bacteria were Too Numerous To Count...