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- BUSINESS, Page 41Business NotesCONSUMER PRODUCTSSlush, Maybe; Juice, Hardly
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- Consumers swallowed the juice concoction, and its
- manufacturers reaped sweet profits. But last week a federal
- grand jury indicted three former top officials of a
- Chicago-based juice company, Bodine's Inc., for allegedly
- selling 7 million cases of adulterated frozen orange juice
- between 1983 and 1985. While the company labeled the juice "100%
- pure," the Food and Drug Administration says the product
- contained corn sugar, beet sugar, monosodium glutamate and
- effluent from a water-distillation process. The company
- allegedly used the ingredients because they were cheaper than
- the real thing and enabled Bodine's to offer lower prices to
- supermarkets. The adulteration stopped before the company
- changed hands in 1985, but the former executives face potential
- fines and prison terms.
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