How They Lie, Pt. The Alar Story, Pt. Environmental Research Foundation . . P.O. Box 5036, Annapolis, MD 21403 . .
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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . Alar was in fact a safe chemical, essential for the economic health of the nation's apple industry, but it was suddenly and unexpectedly pulled from the market after environmental and consumer extremists created a sudden storm of frightening publicity in 1989. Or so the story goes. This rendition of the Alar story has been told and retold so many times since 1989 that we have all come to believe it. And the story keeps being repeated like a drum beat right up to the present.