FDA Admits Laxity in Testing Food Imports From: The Washington Post | Date: May 1, 1987| Author: Michael Weisskopf | Copyright 1987 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Five years after the cancer-causing pesticide heptachlor was banned in the United States, the Philippines was annually exporting hundreds of thousands of tons of heptachlor-treated pineapple to this country.

None of it was stopped-or even tested-by the Food and Drug Administration.

The pineapples were cited yesterday at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing as evidence of the FDA's failure to stop imports of food adulterated with pesticides, including cancer-causing...

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