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Consumers affairs minister issues
warning on Jequirity beans
• Cdhsumer and Corporate
Affairs Minister Ron Basford
today Issued a national warning
. following, discovery of
widespread sales of poisonous
Jequirity beans on the Canadian
market.
The new •Hazardous Products
Act. last June made it illegal to
import,' advertise or sell . the
red-anclArlack beans which are
used as ' shiny ornaments on
handicraft and costume 'jewelry.
"Recent cases turned up by
my department's national
network of inspectors are every
alarming," Mr. Basford said,
"The public must learn,, to
recognize these deadly beans
which are a dangerous threat to
health and life."
Inspectors have spotted the
beans on sale in British
Columbia, Saskatchewan and
Manitoba. Investigations are
underway elsewhere in Canada.
° The Consumer Affairs
Minister urged:
— Merchants to examine their
stocks and report possession of
beans to regional offices, then
Consumer Affairs Bureau, in
Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto,
Montreal and Halifax, or to any
of its offices located in 22 other.
cities across Canada; • , .
— Householders to learn to
recognize the beans and to alert
the regional offices so that the
source of the beans can be
traced.
The Minister emphasized his
prime concern was to withdraw
the beans from .circulation and
Some of the last sailors of the season yvereout for a short spin inside the breakwater area last week
but didn't stay out too long. Now that the nights are coming on faster and lasting longer, it gets cool
" on the water at dusk.—staff photo
tib Canailian
Leacock
in.. commemorative starnp.hono
A 6c con memorative stamp
to be released by the Canada
Post Office on Nov. 12 will
honor Stephen Butler 'Leacock,
an internationally famous
Canadian humorist, historian
andeconomist, whose boyhood
days were spent .on his parents'
• farm some four miles from the
south shore of Lake Simcoe in
Ontario.
Lea • ck, o ' e of a" family of
came to he pioneer farm
lands of Ca . da some seven
- years after birth on
,.December 30, 18 in the
Hampshire, England,. h et of
Swanmore; he died.on March 28,
1944, in Toronto where he had
spent 1$ years commencing wit
five years as a student at Upp
Canada College.
Thirty-four million Leacock
stamps, horizontal in format
with dimensions of 40mm. x
24mrn., will be printed by the
designers, the British American
Bank Note Company, Ottawa.
Photogravure and Steep
engraving, utilizing • green,
• yellow, red and black, have been
combined to render a portrait
° and appropriate elements
including the designer's concept
of Mariposa, the fictitious small
Ontario town made .famous in
Leacock's "Sunshine Sketches of
• a Little Town." Customary" First
Day Cover ,service, will be
provided by the Postmaster,
Ottawa 2, Ontario.
Mr. Leacock took his B.A. at
Toronto in 1891 and Ph.D. at
Chicago in 1903 after having
been, in his words, "...examined
for the last time and pronounced
completely full." A memorable
32 years at Montreal's McGill
commenced with his
appointment as that institution's
. first lecturer of political science
and his memory is perpetuated
there in a .special sectio of the
Redpath Library containing a
comprehensive collection , of his
'books and manuscripts; a further
Leacock collection has been
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STEPHEN
LEACOCK
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assembled in hiiTormer summer
home at Orillia, Ontario,
recently declared a National
Historic Site, which has been
preserved for more than 10 years
as a memorial home and literary
shrine.
As an author Leacock referred
to his own,"liquified loquacity"
and the "general corrective of
the humorous point •of view."
"The half truth," he is reported
to have said, "is to- me' the
mellow moonlight in which , I
love to dwell." At one point in
his career Leacock is said to have
remarked he was abandoning
public lecturing because of a
need to learn the Chinese
language to gain a new audience;
it is significant that • ultimately
many of his works, some 60 in
all, were translated throughout
*he world: `
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have them destroyed by his
officials. He solicited the
co-operation of distribilltors,
merchants. and householders and
cautioned that failure to comply
with the jaw could result in
prosecutions.
The beans are a bright shiny
scarlet with a jet black . dot
covering one-third of the end
(where it was attached to a pod).
The end of the bean has the
appearance of having been dipped
in bright black enamel: Thy are
normally a quarter cf an .inch
long, but range as large as half an
inch.
Jequirity beans are often used
to make necklaces or bracelets,
or to decorate toys (dolls' eyes)
or household goods such as
lamps, lamp -shades, ash trays, '
mats; beaded wall hangings and°
other articles or handicraft.
If in doubt contact the
nearest office for advice.
If chewed, - a bean . will
probably cause nausea, vomiting,
diarrhea, leading to convulsions,
collapse 'and possibly death.
Particularly dangerous are
broken, split or drilled beans (as
for necklaces) which expose the
toxic elements .within the shell.
' The substance known as
Abrin, the toxic 'ingredient of
the Jequirity bean, is one pf the
most potent toxics known..
The Jequirity bean is the seed
of a plant native to Southeast
Asia. It has been planted in the
Carribean area, in Central
American and in Florida.
The dangers of Jequirity
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beans have been publicized in
the past by the Food. and Drug
Directorate of the Department
of National Health and Welfare.
Concern over • the • danger
prompted a total ban on .their
importation, advertising or sale
when the Department of
Consumer and Corporate Affairs
began administration of the new
Hazardous Products . Act this
summer.
. Investigation has revealed that
some articles containing the
beans have been brought into
Canada by toiists °returning
from other countries,; some have
been sent here as gifts; some
have been imported by
proprietors of gift shops and
other outlets for handicraft
goods; and some , have beed
imported in bulk. Steps have
been taken to maintain
surveillance at border points .to
prevent entry of the beans.
Colour photographs of the beans
have been circulated to customs
ports to help intercept
shipments.
Mr. Basford _said his
department has also requested
that the Department of External
Affairs ask countries where
Jequirity beans are grown to
prohibit their ekport to Canada.
Poison control centres across
Canada, already aware of the
dangers,. have been asked to
report Jequirity poisonings . to
the Consumer Bureau.
Intensive inspection of outlets
across Canada is being continued
by the, department's field staff.
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