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Cranberry Crisis Prompts FDA to Officially Endorse a Product
FDA chemists worked overtime testing cranberries for traces of the herbicide. Those that tested clear were to become the only food in history to be marked as approved by the FDA. Although cranberries managed to find their way back onto supermarket shelves in time for American households to serve cranberry sauce that Thanksgiving Day [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it took several years for the cranberry market to recover from the crisis.
As the nation reeled over the news and threw out all things cranberry, medics quickly added their voice to the debate. The Times article of 1959 also reports that medical opinion was of the view that people would have to “eat heaped bowls of cranberries three times a day for at least three weeks” before any trace of aminotriazole would be found in their bodies.
Housewives throughout America went into shock on November 9th, 1959 when the country’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that cranberries and associated products such as cans and jars of cranberry sauce and cranberry jelly, produced in the states of Oregon and Washington over the previous 18 months or so, should be withdrawn because they had been contaminated by the carcinogenic herbicide aminotriazole.
Although the announcement by the FDA’s Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Arthur S. Fleming [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], only referred to cranberry products from two US states [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it caused a nationwide scare which saw the removal of all cranberry products from shops, restaurants and kitchen cupboards. It also threatened the country’s entire cranberry crop – valued at some $45 million, according to an article on the cranberry crisis in The Times newspaper of November 16th 1959.
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The timing of the announcement, just 17 days before Thanksgiving Day, couldn’t have come at a worse possible moment. Apart from the threat to the economy of the cranberry farmers, it also threatened to ruin traditional Thanksgiving Day family feasts up and down the land. Thanksgiving would not be Thanksgiving without a dollop of cranberry sauce to accompany a large slice or three of traditional roast turkey in the eyes of most Americans.
As this medical opinion worked its way through the media, politicians such as the then Vice-President Richard Nixon and Senator John Kennedy publicised their support for the cranberry farmers – the former by letting it be known he had eaten several bowls of fresh cranberries in Wisconsin one evening and the latter by stating he had downed several cranberry cocktails in the cranberry county of Massachusetts – according, again, to the 1959 article in The Times.
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