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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pesticide for grain and by recommending national standards for grain products already tainted by the chemical. EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus, who during a previous reign at EPA banned DDT in 1972, announced ceilings of 30 parts per billion of EDB for ready-to-eat food, like cold cereal or bread; 150 p.p.b. for flours and baking mixes; and 900 p.p.b. for raw grain in storage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Muffin-Mix Scare | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

ETHYLENE dibromide (EDB) is not a household word, but Duncan Hines, Betty Crocker and Wonder Bread are. So when government officials recently discovered significant levels of the pesticide, a potent carcinogen, in a host of grain and cereal products, a warning cry went out. In the wake of these discoveries, and the public furor that followed, William Ruckelshaus, director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), last week suspended the use of the chemical on grain products...

Author: By Simon J. Frankel, | Title: Fruit of the Tainted Tree | 2/9/1984 | See Source »

...deadly--a practice which has skyrocketed during the Reagan Administration. And the proposed changes to FIFRA would direct special attention toward the threat of pesticides which contaminate food or groundwater. These amendments would help the EPA avoid more problems like the recent discovery of EDB-tainted cake mix and bread...

Author: By Simon J. Frankel, | Title: Fruit of the Tainted Tree | 2/9/1984 | See Source »

...ritzy because we always have dessert," explains Browning one night when the chef, Marcia Rorty '84, offers a dark chocolate mousse with fresh whipped cream to top off her spaghetti and garlic bread dinner...

Author: By Mary F. Cliff, | Title: Hanging Out Up There | 2/9/1984 | See Source »

Students perform day-to-day jobs such as cooking dinner, washing dishes, cleaning the stove and baking bread. They are required to do a certain amount of work based on a point system which varies from co-op to co-op. Each student must sign up on a chart for approximately 20 points' worth of work during a two week period. For example, making dinner once and cleaning up twice would be worth 20 points, Jennifer Eddy '85 explains...

Author: By Mary F. Cliff, | Title: Hanging Out Up There | 2/9/1984 | See Source »

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