P. M. BRIEFING : Apple Sales Soar Despite Scare
Despite nationwide concern over use of Alar, a chemical growth regulator, sales of Washington apples rose by almost 50,000 boxes over the previous week, industry officials said today.
Washington growers, who supply about two-thirds of the nation’s supermarket apples this time of year, shipped a record 1.56 million 42-pound boxes in the week from March 2 to Wednesday, said Bill DeWitt of the Wenatchee Valley Traffic Assn. That was up from 1.51 million boxes a week earlier, and 1.4 million boxes for the same period last year, DeWitt said.
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