Word: vivants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well-known producers even supply goods for their competitors' major brands. One such arrangement came to light after the highly unusual botulism death of a man who had eaten vichyssoise made by Bon Vivant Soups of New Jersey. When the Food and Drug Administration ordered the recall of all the company's products, the public learned that Bon Vivant had also produced soups for other companies under 34 different labels, including the widely distributed and prestigious S.S. Pierce, White Rose and S & W Fine Foods...
...Vivant is now in receivership, but company officials still hope to get back in business despite FDA charges, made after a thorough examination of the company plant, that its products were often improperly sterilized and were not fit for consumption by "man or animal." Up to 4,000,000 cans of Bon Vivant products remain in warehouses round the country, while the company continues to press the drug agency for a test to determine whether or not these products can be put back on the market...
Meanwhile, state and federal health authorities identified the soup as the source of the poison and ordered the recall of all products prepared by Bon Vivant Soups, Inc. of Newark, N.J. The task is proving complicated. The company processes 4,000,000 cans of food a year-mostly soup-under its own name plus 34 other labels. Some of the cans bearing such well-known brand names as Gristede's, S.S. Pierce and Marshall Field are in fact Bon Vivant products...
...precaution, however, was well taken. Of the first 324 cans of Bon Vivant vichyssoise recalled and tested, five were found to be contaminated. A number of others had telltale bulges, which often but not always signal the presence of botulinum toxin, one of the most deadly poisons known to man. (One ounce of the poison is enough to kill the entire population of the U.S.) The toxin is produced by the hard-shelled spores of the Clostridium botulinum bacteria, which lie dormant in !he soil but flourish in the airless environment of canned foods when they are improperly processed. Heating...
Last week, a VNAF chopper, carrying Newsweek Correspondent François Sully, General Do Cao Tri and eight others to a staging area in Cambodia, exploded shortly after takeoff and crashed in flames. All were killed. The urbane, Paris-born Sully, 43, was a bon vivant with a penchant for tailored shirts and vintage wine. He first came to Indochina in the mid-1940s, and, as a combat correspondent for TIME, was one of the last newsmen to leave Dienbienphu before it fell in 1954. He was the 34th journalist to be killed in Indochina since 1965 (another...