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Article: BABY FOOD GLASS JARS UNDER FIRE CONSUMER CHIEF WANTS ACTION.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- March 7, 1986
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Byline: Staff and wire reports
Federal authorities should reconsider whether glass jars should be used for baby food, a state consumer-affairs official said Thursday in Mineola, Nassau County.
Richard M. Kessel, executive director of the state Consumer Protection Board, also said the government should recall any jars from the same lots as jars in which glass has been found.
Kessel criticized the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for handling the problem on a "case by case" basis since Feb. 11, when a Schenectady woman reported finding small glass particlesin a jar of Gerber peaches.
"They have to make a public recognition that there is ...