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Midfielder Cathy Dawson, a First Team High School All-American from Pittsburgh, Penn., is the top prospect in a crop that also includes Amy Winston of Little Rock, Ark. and Californian Alison Keene...
Midfielder Cathy Dawson, a First Team High School All-American from Pittsburgh, Penn., is the top prospect in a crop that also includes Amy Winston of Little Rock, Ark. and Californian Alison Keene...
Concern about the crop began simmering when cannery operators heard reports that some tomato farmers had employed Temik, which in Italy can be legally used only on sugar beets. Police investigated, and ten samples of tomatoes that farmers admitted had been treated with Temik were brought to government laboratories in Caserta...
...Italian press, never renowned for its restraint, tackled the story with gusto. Turin's La Stampa carried a headline about "poison salad on the table." Public fears grew when one newspaper erroneously reported that infant mortality was widespread in the tomato-growing area. Although the Italian government gave the crop a clean bill of health, public uncertainty lingers. Francesco De Lorenzo, Under Secretary of the Ministry of Health, declared that the state had tested the samples with procedures identical to those of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and had found no traces of the pesticide above .05 parts...
Temik is a powerful pesticide that greatly increases crop yields when properly used. The trouble is that some farmers misuse it. In July more than 1 million California-grown watermelons were crushed or dumped because they had been poisoned by the insecticide. In 1980 Temik was withdrawn from the market on Long Island, N.Y., after residues of the insecticide were discovered in some wells. In Italy farmers have been illegally using the pesticide on beans, cucumbers and lettuce for several years...