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...Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said yesterday that its analysis of that report and the 60 additional cases found since then have shown that the connection between the drug and the cancer is "statistically significant...
...statement released Wednesday, Herbst said "We feel the logical next step is to have the FDA undertake a national surveillance program of all young women in the at-risk population--those women whose mothers were given the drug...
...Vivant is now in receivership, but company officials still hope to get back in business despite FDA charges, made after a thorough examination of the company plant, that its products were often improperly sterilized and were not fit for consumption by "man or animal." Up to 4,000,000 cans of Bon Vivant products remain in warehouses round the country, while the company continues to press the drug agency for a test to determine whether or not these products can be put back on the market...
Radio's strength as commodity and service was left unfettered. It was looked on as a defender of private business interests, and only extreme New Dealers dared attack it. An early FDA bill calling for identification of product contents during commercial breaks was killed because of the fear of lost advertising revenue. Radio-style advertising became recognized as a determinant of public opinion; when Upton Sinclair threatened to ride into the California governorship with his wealth-sharing EPIC plan, Albert Lasker, first NBC advertising counsel, was called to Hollywood to aid in his defeat. It was no surprise, then, that...
...flourish in the airless environment of canned foods when they are improperly processed. Heating at 212° for five hours or at 240° for 30 minutes is sufficient to kill the bacteria during the canning process. But occasionally food is unsufficiently heated, particularly during home canning. (The FDA investigation seemed to point to insufficient heating procedures, but Bon Vivant has not yet given an explanation.) Since 1960, there have been 78 outbreaks of botulism in the U.S. and 182 individual cases, of which 42 proved fatal. Twenty-six of the deaths were caused by home-canned foods...