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Economy & Business A.H. Robins files for bankruptcy after a barrage of Dalkon Shield suits. AT&T will cut out 24,000 jobs. A tainted-tomato scare...
...ingredients were in place for a stew of a scandal. At stake were nothing less than the fate of the Italian tomato crop, one of the country's leading exports, and the pride of Campania, a lush farming region that stretches from Naples to the slopes of Vesuvius. At the height of the harvest two weeks ago, deliveries of tomatoes to canneries were abruptly suspended by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture. Reason: suspicions that much of a 200,000-metric-ton crop, perhaps 30% of a bumper harvest, contained the poisonous insecticide aldicarb. Marketed by Union Carbide under the trade...
...careless or greedy Italian farmers endangered the health of spaghetti- sauce lovers from Bologna to Burbank? No, the Italian Ministry of Health proclaimed last week. After a ten-day investigation that fueled a heated public debate, the government announced that the Italian tomato crop, which accounts for some 60% of the world's production of peeled canned tomatoes, was perfectly safe for consumption...
Concern about the crop began simmering when cannery operators heard reports that some tomato farmers had employed Temik, which in Italy can be legally used only on sugar beets. Police investigated, and ten samples of tomatoes that farmers admitted had been treated with Temik were brought to government laboratories in Caserta...
...Italian press, never renowned for its restraint, tackled the story with gusto. Turin's La Stampa carried a headline about "poison salad on the table." Public fears grew when one newspaper erroneously reported that infant mortality was widespread in the tomato-growing area. Although the Italian government gave the crop a clean bill of health, public uncertainty lingers. Francesco De Lorenzo, Under Secretary of the Ministry of Health, declared that the state had tested the samples with procedures identical to those of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and had found no traces of the pesticide above .05 parts...