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id d Companies sell to Third World ' doom, •■niaiiot! st over, United Press International BOS ION — II companies can’t iell certain products in industri- ilized countries, thev sometimes ip them to the Third World. Dr. Vincente Navarro, a John e Hopkins University professor of ^ tealth policy, believes this practice is conn aid tliej, ‘uncenso, apacitv t0 mm nuclear •it. tile?, received final entTlit in whidj nearly om Anb sed theca eginninj a nuraba Arams." s a N tot getting the attention it should. “In spite of occasional news [lashes about specific examples of spoliation of hazardous sub- itances, there does not seem to be much popular awareness of the is- me," he wrote in a recent New En- land Journal of Medicine article. "And there has been no systematic study of the public health problem." Although there are few solid fig ures on how many banned products are exported, it is known that in 197(i, approximately BO percent of the U.S. pesticides exported were prohibited in the United States, he wrote. Some drugs banned in this coun try are also exported. The manufacture of asbestos products, which strong regulations have almost eliminated in the United States, has shifted to Mexico, Brazil, Taiwan and South Korea, which have almost no occupational safety regulations. The final products are then imported into the United States. In some cases, the impact of ex porting banned products bounces back. For instance, naturalists tire trying to reestablish birds of prey in the United States after they were, wiped out b\ DDT, Nav arro wrote. H owever, the United States ex ports DDT to South America and when the birds migrate there for the winter they eat contaminated food. Not only do many companies sell their banned products in other countries, they often remove the warnings. One study completed in 1982 found products marketed by 150 pharmaceutical companies that were improperly labeled. The government has taken some action. Congress has passed several laws requiring the importing country he informed when products (pri marily pesticides) banned in the United States are to be exported. 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Justice Paul Pressler of the 14th District Court of Appeals claimed Baylor President Herbert H. Reynolds is unresponsive to the majority of Baptists in refus ing to teach the view of inerrant- ists. “All we are concerned about is getting Baylor to adhere to the fact that the Bible is f ree from er- ror,” Pressler said. Pressler is a leader of the iner rancy movement, which believes in the strict and literal interpreta tion of the Bible. Non-inerrantists believe in the divine inspiration ol the Bible, hut do not believe everything in it is literally true. Reynolds lashed out at the movement in an alumni magazine distributed late last week, describ ing inerrantists as “a little Baptist college of cardinals” and “a priestly class among us who feel they are endowed with special wisdom and special authority, when in fact they possess nei ther.” Reynolds was responding to criticism from inerrantists over the teaching of biblical interpre tation at the university. Pressler cited a newspaper arti cle in which a Baylor religion pro fessor stated that portions of the Bible were “superb examples of political rhetoric and not histori cal fact.” “No one is trying to get Baylor to adhere to any particular inter pretation of the scripture,” Pressler said. Cholera verified in Houston case Pizza-n-Subs Grand Opening! Delicious Italian Foods & Pizza 150 ft from the Cow Hop’s Back Door, next to Kinko’s 317 Patricia, College Station r United Press International HOUS TON — One case of chol era has been confirmed and two more cases are suspected in men who ate raw oysters from a distribu tor that supplies oysters to 27 area restaurants, health officials said Wednesday. The confirmed case involves a 22- year-old man who ate oysters on the hall shell Oct. 5 at Bayou City Oyster Co., said a city Health Department spokeswoman. The two suspected cases involve a 41-year-old man who ate raw oysters Oct. 5 at Daddy Did It, and a 48-year-old man who ate raw oysters Oct. 10 at Bayou City Oyster Co., she said. The men were hopitalized for about two days each, she said. The oysters were harvested in American Bay in Louisiana, proc essed at Guidry Seafood in Cut Off,. La., and wholesaled to Louisiana Foods Inc. in Houston. The Health Department is begin ning to tag all oysters coming from American Bay through Louisiana Foods. Spokeswoman Shirlene Brid gewater said the restaurants will not be allowed to sell the oysters unless samples pass department tests. The department also has notified hospitals and area doctors to encour age routine testing for cholera. Cholera is a bacterial disease that affects the gastrointestinal tract and often is associated with eating con taminated shellfish. Symptoms in clude profuse, watery diarrhea; fever; occasional vomiting; and ab dominal cramps. 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