OTHER NEWS - July 8, 1994

General Mills Resumes Cereal Production: The Minneapolis-based food maker resumed full production of oat cereals about three weeks after halting shipments of products that were treated with an unregistered pesticide. General Mills stopped shipping Cheerios and other oat cereals in mid-June when a routine check by the Food and Drug Administration found traces of chlorpyrifos-ethyl, an insecticide approved for wheat, corn, apples and other crops but not oats. General Mills said an independent licensed contractor improperly treated some of its raw oat supplies. The FDA and the Environmental Protection Agency have said the products made from the improperly treated oats pose no health hazard.