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...small band of FDA investigators have had to devise their own techniques of investigation. Some of the brand marks impressed on tablets and printed on gelatin capsules are such expert forgeries that the agency's Bureau of Drug Abuse Control (TIME, May 5) has developed a science it calls "pillistics," an equivalent of ballistics that adapts microscopy and other laboratory tests to tracing counterfeit medicines to a particular machine...
...wires. And despite the unfamiliarity of its name, collagen (from the Greek kolla, or glue, and pronounced col-uh-jen) has been popular in the humblest homes for centuries. When the hides and bones of animals are boiled down, they yield that denatured but widely used form of collagen, gelatin...
Timed-release decongestant medicines contain hundreds of small but visible pellets of gelatin-or wax-coated drugs in a single dose. The period required for each pellet to dissolve in the digestive system and release its drug varies from almost no time at all to as long as twelve hours, depending on the thickness of the coating. Measurin tablets contain some 6,000 microscopic particles of aspirin, each coated with a semipermeable plastic. Gastric fluids flow through the plastic walls and dissolve the aspirin-which flows out of the capsule at a controlled rate for a continuous eight-hour period...
Borden's has diversified most widely in foods. In the 1950s, it moved eagerly into convenience foods, putting the Borden label on new products (gelatin salads, packaged potatoes, refrigerated biscuits) and acquiring such smaller firms as Snow's (clams), Wyler's (dehydrated soups and vegetables). Brandywine (mushrooms) and ReaLemon (juices and concentrates). It is now the nation's fifth largest food company. To cut costs, it is building 14 to 18 automated warehouses to replace its 136 small warehouses around the U.S.. has so automated its plants that one man and three machines...
...Gelatin & Diaper. For breakfast Chimp No. 65 got an ounce of baby cereal, 4 oz. of condensed milk, cooking oil, gelatin, vitamins and half an egg. Then he was wired for recording instruments, dressed in a baby diaper and strapped on his back on a personally fitted contour couch, his arms left free. The environmental control system (air pressure, oxygen, temperature, etc.) was much the same as for a human astronaut...