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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . In the U.S. in 1989, an angry public forced an end to the use of Alar on apples, an event that should go down in history as the Alar Rebellion, not the Alar Scare. Alar is a growth-regulating hormone manufactured by Uniroyal corporation. From 1965 to 1989, at least half the apples in the U.S. were sprayed with Alar. Unfortunately, in the period 1973 to 1977, lab tests showed that Alar, and its byproduct UDMH, caused cancer in mice and hamsters.