Friday, February 17,19847The Battaiion/Page 3
tores taking EDB contaminated foods off shelves
By SARAH OATES
Senior St nil Writer
Spicy-Apple and blueberry
[muffin addicts beware. Being
[leery is safer than being over-
jjoyed at a sudden price drop on
Ithese mixes because that “bar-
[gain price” probably means the
[mix is contaminated with high
[levels of EDB.
According to a recent alert is-
[suecl by the Consumer Protec-
[tion Division of the Attorney
[General’s office, some grocers
may be “dumping,” or slashing
prices on EDB contaminated
foods to cut their losses on sales
of the products.
Many grocers in College Sta
tion already have pulled grain
products containing the power
ful carcinogen EDB (ethylene
dibromide) off their shelves,
but consumers should be wary
of grain items suddenly offered
at lower prices.
Although many local grocery
stores such as Skagg’s Alpha
Beta on South College, the
Kroger Family Centers and
Safeway stores have voluntarily
pulled these products from
their shelves, products to watch
out for are:
• Duncan Hines Spicy Apple
Muffin Mix.
• Duncan Hines Blueberry
Muffin Mix.
• Comet Natural Brown
Long Grain Rice.
• Texas Long Grain Basmati
Rice by Texas Rice Production
Co.
• Mary Lee While Cake Mix.
The Environmental Protec
tion Agency issued guidelines
for acceptable levels of EDB in
food on Feb. 2, but Texas did
not adopt them until Feb. 7. Lo
cal grocery store managers de
clined comment about the
products’ removal.
Carmen Lovell, consumer af
fairs director for the Kroger
Co., said the company received
word from the Texas Depart
ment of Health on Feb. 3 that
the EPA guidelines had been es
tablished. She said Kroger
stores all over the state volun
tarily removed products shown
to contain unacceptable levels
of EDB the same day.
Bill Wade, senior vice presi
dent of advertisement for the
Skaggs Alpha-Beta corporate
offices in Salt Lake City, Utah,
said, “We have pulled all the
products identified by the
TDH. (Texas Department of
Health).
“We’re responding to the ad
vice of various agencies in
volved in this project.”
The EPA guidelines for resi
dues of EDB in food are as fol
lows:
• Raw grain intended for
human consumption — 900
parts per billion.
• Milled grain products
which require cooking, such as
flour, corn meal, cake and muf
fin mixes — 150 parts per bil
lion.
• Ready-to-eat foods, such as
loaves of bread and orange
juice — 30 parts per billion.
The Consumer Alert said
that Texas includes orange
juice in the ready-to-eat cat
egory because some Florida
orange juice contained nearly
900 parts per billion and Mexi
can orange juice could be even
higher in EDB content.
“Only specific batch numbers
(a code number on a product’s
container) of the products had
unacceptable amounts,” said
Kent Milton, public relations
manager of the Houston divi
sion of Safeway.
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Parents say son
Moreno insane
on killing spree
Health center director calls $1 lab fee ‘pointless’
United Press International
WESLACO — The father of
iliseo Moreno, who was de-
icribed as quiet and law-abiding
until he went on a spree that left
iix people dead, Thursday ap
pealed for public support to
werturn his son’s death sen-
ence.
Elderly F.C. Moreno, who
differs from epilepsy, said both
ie and his wife are ill and the
knowledge their son was given
the death sentence for the slay
ing of a state trooper was caus
ing them “to die slowly and very
painfully.”
The series of shootings began
after Moreno’s wife, Blanca, left
him and sought refuge with her
brother in Bryan. Moreno first
allegedly killed his brother-in-
law, Juan Garza, Juan’s wife, Es
ther, then gunned down Texas
Highway Patrolman Russell
Lynn Boyd, 25, who attempted
to stop him during his flight.
Later he allegedly kidnapped
two people, shot three elderly
residents to death and stole a
couple of cars trying to make
his way back to his native Lower
Rio Grande Valley.
“It is true that my son killed
the Garzas (Moreno’s brother-
in-law and wife) and the state
trooper,” the defendant’s fa
ther, F.C. moreno, wrote in a
signed statement he gave to the
correspondent for the three
Valley Freedom Newspapers on
behalf of the family. “But they
were killed while my son was in
sane and in a moment of mad
ness.”
The family statement ap
pealed for Rio Grande Valley
residents to write to the More-
nos or to an appeals court in
Houston requesting mercy.
“Your letters may help my son’s
life,” the father wrote.
“They say my son is a mur
derer but the real truth is that
the prosecutor, the jurors and
the judge just heard what the
D.A. showed and said,” the let
ter said. “They didn’t and don’t
want to listen to the facts and
circumstances of the case.”
The elder Moreno said “my
son suffers from two different
diseases. First alcoholism and
second jealousy. Put them both
together and they can drive any
man or woman to the wall. My
son loved his wife Blanca very,
very much. So much that he left
his common-law wife and three
sons for her. And in return for
all he did and left behind for
her, she leaves him.
“... Now the jury sentenced
my son to die. I just hope these
E eople can sleep well each night
ecause they not only sentenced
my son to die but also his par
ents to die slowly and very pain
fully... My son didn’t know at
the time what was going on.
Any fool can see that very clear;
that my son did not premeditate
all those killings.’
By LORRAINE
CHRISTIAN
Reporter
The Student Government fi
nance committee has recom
mended a $1 user fee for labo
ratory tests at the A.P. Beutel
Health Center, but the director
of the center says such a fee is
pointless.
Dr. Claude Goswick, health
center director, said all profits
from the fee would be lost in
billing costs. He said if a fee is to
be charged, it should be large
enough to offset the expense of
the lab report. Lab reports are
issued on bloodtests, mono
spots, urine analysis and glu
cose tolerance tests, Goswick
said.
Dr. John Koldus, vice presi
dent for student services, who
must approve the recommenda
tion, also expressed reserva
tions about it . He called the
practice of assessing user fees
“hazy.” He said he would have
to study the matter beforecom
ing to a decision.
Mike Cook, vice president of
the Finance Committee, said ately after undergoing the lab timaled that about $15,000
the $1 charge was chosen so test. He said that would elimi- could be made with such a pro-
that students could pay immedi- nate billing problems. Cook es- posal.
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