The World - News from March 31, 1989
Chilean police said that two cyanide-tainted grapes that prompted a five-day U.S. embargo on Chilean fruit were poisoned en route to or in the United States but not in Chile. Gen. Fernando Paredes, investigative police chief, said preliminary results of laboratory tests showed that grapes injected with cyanide in Chile would have rotted before reaching the United States. Authorities said full testing would take about a month. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the fruit had been tampered with in Chile before shipment to the United States.
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