Word: gerbers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Drug Administration to undertake a detailed study of other possible effects of MSG. One was the recent publicity given to the fact that some baby foods are laced with the stuff-simply to titillate their mothers' palates, as Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader (TIME cover, Dec. 12) pointed out. (Gerber is no longer putting MSG into baby foods.) The second factor was a report by a St. Louis psychiatrist, Dr. John W. Olney, that when he injected MSG under the skin of newborn mice it caused brain damage and other developmental defects. Though this phenomenon may have no relevance...
...Gerber Criticizes Research...
Representatives of the three baby food manufacturers. H. J. Heinz. Beechnut, and Gerber, were critical of the publicity given the substance. Daniel F. Gerber, chief executive officer of Gerber Products Company, expressed doubt that monosodium glutamate had any potential harm for people, or that Dr. Olney's research was applicable to humans...
...Crane Co., Universal-Rundle Corp., Briggs Manufacturing Co., Gerber Plumbing Fixtures Corp., Ogden Corp., Mansfield Sanitary Inc., Peerless Pottery Inc., Kilgore Ceramics Corp., Lawndale Industries Inc., Georgia Sanitary Pottery Inc., Wallace-Murray Corp., Rheem Manufacturing...
Such a tale is, of course, depressing. But Author Merrill Joan Gerber makes it even more so by coating it with sentimentality. A short-story writer who has published in Redbook and Mademoiselle, she seems glued to the traditional women's magazine faith-the world is blackest just before a rose-tinted dawn. After Abram's death, the problem sister marries her beatnik lover. The other sister decides that she will bear a son with her father's name-"It was all I could do in this world-all I could hope to do." Almost any death...