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...breakfast cereal served in all Harvard during halls will no longer be offered to students because of a report that it exceeds the state-regulated level of ethylene dibromide (EDB), a cancer causing chemical, University officials said yesterday...
Said Spokesman Patrick Hayes: "EDB does not represent a health hazard. There is certainly no emergency in the foods currently in distribution." Procter & Gamble has removed mixes containing more than 150 p.p.b. from all its warehouses, and swept those same products off grocery-store shelves in all 50 states...
Procter & Gamble was far from the only company caught in the EDB scare...
Last week Quaker Oats learned that South Carolina had found its Flako corn-muffin mix had more EDB than federal guidelines permit. "We're not happy about it," said Ron Bottrell, a worried Quaker Oats spokesman. "This was our first product to be found out of compliance anywhere." In Ohio, Minnesota and North Dakota, General Mills voluntarily took Bisquick off the shelves, while South Carolina and Alabama recalled the company's Betty Crocker white-cake mixes...
...answer questions from confused consumers, General Mills set up 13 telephone hot lines in several states. When New York officials discovered that lot 3297-D of Borden's Cracker Jack Extra Fresh Popping Corn had an excessive amount of EDB, the company recalled...