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Saying that it is better to "err on the side of caution," New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean last week ordered all boxes of Duncan Hines Deluxe Devil's Food Cake Mix bearing lot number 3116C2A removed from grocery-store shelves throughout his state. Kean's move came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble at the Grocery Store | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

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.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble at the Grocery Store | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

"Another bowl of grits won't kill anyone," said Ron White, assistant commissioner of the Texas department of agriculture. Maybe so, but how about another slice of birthday cake? Unsure, state health officials in Florida swept grocery-store shelves of some shipments of Betty Crocker cake mixes, Gold Medal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Muffin-Mix Scare | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

In California, the state asked Procter & Gamble to take Duncan Hines muffin mixes off the shelves, and in Massachusetts, the public health commissioner recommended that consumers return 46 different cake mixes and grain products to the store. The cause of the panicked shelf cleaning was a chemical called ethylene dibromide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Muffin-Mix Scare | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

Harvard's rare books collections are growing at a pace which far exceeds present library space. In fact, many curators mentioned that most of a given library's collection is currently taken from the shelves of regular open-stack libraries on campus.

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Treasure in the Stacks | 2/2/1984 | See Source »

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