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...million Ibs. the U.S. produces annually is used to keep leaded gasoline from fouling auto engines. Because the chemical is added at refineries in a closed system and breaks down during engine combustion, such use is considered safe enough. The danger comes from agricultural practice: growers inject it into citrus grove soils to control rootworms, and exporters fumigate some $29 million worth of fruit with it to meet foreign quarantine laws...
...forced out earlier this year, had delayed regulating EDB as a favor to agribusinessmen. Synar brandished a letter Todhunter wrote in June 1982 to Florida Representative Andy Irelanda, in which the regulator argued the growers' side of the case, stating, "It is important to your state's citrus exporters that EDB not be phased out unless there is an alternative available." Todhunter dismissed Synar's evidence as proving nothing. Said he: "I signed 60 letters...
Vorhauer got the idea for the sponge in 1975, when he was an executive with Chicago-based American Hospital Supply Corp. The notion actually dates back more than 3,000 years to the Egyptians, who used sea sponges soaked in citrus juices, which are slightly spermicidal, as contraceptives. When American Hospital showed little interest in Vorhauer's idea, he resigned and set up a tiny office in Newport Beach, Calif. Says he: "My kitchen was my first...
Julieann was the least manageable of Sidney Kraftsow's 70 Brahmans. It was her terrific "craving for citrus fruit," says Kraftsow, that led her to leap over (and even limbo under) 4-ft. barbed-wire fences or bound across her 5-ft.-wide concrete cattle guard. "She was really a menace," he says. Fed up, Kraftsow sold the cow to Hayes for $350, a bargain price...
...company also claims to have come up with a special process to package a fresher-tasting orange juice. It has mounted a classic P & G campaign to promote Citrus Hill brand juice in Iowa and Indiana with cents-off coupons, free samples and a TV advertising blitz. This venture marks another bold confrontation with Coca-Cola, which makes Minute Maid, the bestselling orange juice...