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...Another bowl of grits won't kill anyone," said Ron White, assistant commissioner of the Texas department of agriculture. Maybe so, but how about another slice of birthday cake? Unsure, state health officials in Florida swept grocery-store shelves of some shipments of Betty Crocker cake mixes, Gold Medal flour, Dixie Lily corn grits and Martha White's hush puppies, among other goodies...
...California, the state asked Procter & Gamble to take Duncan Hines muffin mixes off the shelves, and in Massachusetts, the public health commissioner recommended that consumers return 46 different cake mixes and grain products to the store. The cause of the panicked shelf cleaning was a chemical called ethylene dibromide, or EDB. A highly effective pesticide similar to DDT, it is also a dangerous carcinogen. Farmers have used EDB to keep bugs off grain and citrus fruit for more than 30 years, and scientists have known the cancer risk for the past ten years. But the Federal Government has been slow...
...known to be 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...
...relationship between the lovers. Dede and Nicole, provides a marvelous contract to the rest of Belleville. At one point we see Dede sneaking up to Nicole who is gobbling down some cake at a patisserie. "I am cooking leveret stuffed with pistachios, parsley, and a hint of garlic for dinner. "Two leverets," he protests. Baye and Leotard manage to make an incongruous relationship seem convincing and touching. The very thing that makes the couple so vulnerable to both the gangsters and the police alike, their mutual loyalty is at the some time, the only positive thing in the story...
...total collection approaches 100,000 rare books, most of which are unshelved and remain uncatalogued in old classrooms, while the most significant works-"the icing on the cake" Henderson calls it-are stored in the Treasure Room...