Word: livers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took until 1957 for the FDA to figure out by increasingly sensitive tests, that there is a minute residue of stilbestrol in other parts of caponettes than the head -20 to 30 parts per billion in the liver and 35 to 100 in the skin...
...average caponette weighs 2,500 gm. (about 5½ Ibs.). So, by the FDA's top-hazard figures, a roast-caponette fancier would get only a minute fraction of a milligram of stilbestrol if he ate all the skin fat and liver. Medical doses of stilbestrol for human patients cover a wide range beginning at .1 mg. daily, but often run to 15 mg. daily, and may go as high...
...other of life's spices, the computer solemnly accepted the facts that a man must have certain minimum quantities of protein, calcium, iron, phosphorus and five vitamins. Then its nerve cells went to work, concluded that only four foods are needed to sustain life: lard, beef liver, orange juice and soybean meal...
CARTER'S LITTLE PILLS lost "liver" when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a lower court decision ordering Carter Products, Inc. to delete the word from name. FTC victory in longest case in its history (16 years, five months, eleven days) established that the pills have no therapeutic effect on the liver, are no more than a laxative. Carter has petitioned for a rehearing...
...been no breakfast last Thursday, and vague reminiscences of the Administration's decree told him that on the weeks Thursday breakfast was omitted, Sunday breakfast was served. That meant, of course, that this was the week of Tuesday's buffet lunch, but at least there wouldn't be liver for Monday's dinner until next week...