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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.