The maker of Alar, a chemical used in treating apples, surrendered to public pressure Friday and agreed to remove from the market the product that had created a national health furor. The action ...

Here on the front lines of the Great Apple Panic of 1989, the Red Delicious apples continue to stack up in cold storage warehouses, and the growers` anger over news reports of pesticide-tainted app… ...

Few apple growers will forget the February 1989 "60 Minutes" episode that opened with a story about Alar, featuring an apple marked with a skull and crossbones.

The publicity campaign was so effective that sales and prices of all apples declined sharply, and 20,000 apple growers in the U.S. suffered substantial financial harm–even the large number who never ...

The apple industry, citing a sharp drop in sales that has already cost growers $50 million, said Monday that the growers would voluntarily stop using the chemical Alar by this fall.The government ...

Ultimately, consumer pressure, manifested by a dramatic reduction in the sale of apples, led growers to voluntarily stop Alar use long before the EPA issued its final regulatory findings of “possible ...

You may not remember alar, a ripening agent used on apples. But the media firestorm over its harmful effects were a huge turning point in creating a mass market for organic and natural foods. When ...

Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports, has finally come up with an answer about apples and Alar that parents have been crazy to know for a month.This winter, CU bought apples and apple ...

And stacked high in farm stands and markets are apples in deep and mottled reds, purples, yellows and golds.But this year some apples will not look as perfect as they have in the past.For ...

Rewind to the year 1984 when the EPA first announced that Alar, a plant growth regulator (NOT a pesticide), caused cancer in animals. Now fast-forward five years to 1989, the year that the agency ...

While Washington apple growers were frustrated, legal attempts to shut down reporting on Alar were swatted down by the US Supreme Court in April 1996. Chris Schlect, the head of the Northwest ...