The Nation - News from July 11, 1986
An anonymous caller claimed to have poisoned boxes of sugar-free Jell-O gelatin in Chicago and Detroit, prompting at least four grocery chains to pull the product from their shelves in four Midwestern states as a precaution. Kroger pulled the dessert from its 57 stores in Michigan; Jewel removed sugar-free Jell-O from its 218 stores in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Michigan; Dominick’s Finer Foods will not sell the product at its 75 Chicago-area stores, and A&P; will withdraw the product from its Michigan stores, officials said.
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