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Article: Sara Lee shipped suspect bread; Company defends decision to use honey under FDA inspection.(News)(Hoyts' honey tests positive for chloramphenicol)
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- Crain's Chicago Business
- Article date:
- September 15, 2003
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Byline: JAMES B. ARNDORFER
Sara Lee Corp. shipped loaves of honey-enriched Earthgrains breads in August 2002 despite a warning that federal food safety regulators were testing its honey supplier's stocks for an antibiotic banned for use in food.
Testing later confirmed that honey samples taken from Sara Lee vendor Hoyts Honey Farm Inc. contained trace amounts of chloramphenicol. In pharmaceutical doses many times larger, chloramphenicol has been shown to cause blood disorders such as idiosyncratic aplastic anemia in a small percentage of people.
A Sara Lee spokesman confirms that the Chicago-based food and consumer products company continued to ...