Page 10, The Herald, Wednesday, August 20, 1980,

There's.
always:
human
error

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP)
— Champagne ‘orks pop off
with gay abandon — at the

wrong time, Ann-Margret .

falls off a stage swing in Las
Vegas and is. seriously in-
jured. Ford Motor Co. is
charged with reckless.
homicide in the fiery crash af
a Pinte. .

Enter Failure Analysis
Associates, a company that
thrives on misfortune,
analysing why and how and
- if products fail.

“When there's failure,
there's always humatt
error,” said Charles Rau,
the company's 38-year-old
general manager. “'No one’s
going tointentionally makea
part that’s going to fail."

In the case of Ann-
Margret’s swing, ‘It turned
out to be an engineering
problem; it turned out not to
be adequate for holding up
pretty ladies.”

On the Pinto, Failure
Analysis compared ‘the car
with others of its size. ‘The
Ford Pinto was no worse
than most of the sub-
compacts,’ Rau said.
“There were some con-
siderably better, but there
were many that were worse.
Why single them out?”

_ Ajury in Indiana acquitted

Ford in March. One reason
was Ford's argument, based
on Failure Analysis work,
that the Pinto that burned
was like other sub-compacts
of its day..

The champagne cork

matter is still under wraps, -

* but Rau said engineers
believe it’s also a design
problem.

Failure Analysis has: been
in operation since the early
1960s, first as a consortium
of Stanford University

Sodium

Pe Cee ce Ce

ban need denied

WASHINGTON (AP) —
* The U.S. government said
today that based on an ex-
tensive review of scientific
evidence there is no need to
order a ban on sodium nitrite

as a food additive on grounds -

it may cause cancer.

Nitrite, used as a pre-
servative in-bacon, ham and:
many other meat and
poultry products, was cited
in a 1978 study by the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology as a possible
cause of cancer, based on.
tests among 2,000 laboratory
rats.

Ina joint statement, the
Food and Drug ° Ad-
ministration ‘and the
agriculture department said
the MIT study was reviewed
by a group of independent
pathologists.

They found “‘a much lower
incidence” of lymph cancers
among laboratory rats than
was originally reported.

The statement was at-
tributed to FDA Com-
missioner Jere Goyan and
Caro! Tucker Foreman, an
assistant secretary of agr-
icullure who oversees food
and consumer services in
agriculture department,

Meat industry officials,
farm groups and others have
questioned methods used in
the MIT study and have
pressured the government
not to ban nitrites until
further evidence is re-
viewed,

* started

_FORT ST. JOHN, B.C.

. (CP) -— Clearing bush to

River area is hackbreaking,

tedious work and farmers.
‘are undérstandably vexed

when an ail exploration crew
suddenly . moves, on: to the
hard-won land. ?

: Phat happened recently to

Spencer Hadland, who farms

ae _ aes 7)
ANN MARGARET -
professors and later ag a
company with a staff of 80.
Much of the expansion

stems from an explasion.in ~

the - products” liability
business. When companies

‘have product problems, they.
often are targets of lawsuits. —

seeking large awards.
“What they come to us for
are specific problems or

when they need an in-”

dependent view,” Rau said.
“ovfore often than not, we'ré

: providing a skill that doean’t
exist in the company, even:

Fortune 500 companies.”

Rau, a Stanford PhD in -

metallurgy, joined =the

company in 1974 when it had _

12 employees and grossed

$250,000. Last year, revenues .
- topped §4. million, Rau ©

declined to give the com-
pany’s profits or how much it
charges a case.

“In 1974, we changed from
a pick-up team to a more ~

professional full- time
organization,’ Rau said.

“It's a high-technology ‘

business that we're in.”

Although the company ~
analysing -

by- -
failures, its. mission has
expanded. Companies are
becoming: more and- more
concerned ‘about preventing
failure, and are. bringing in

consultants .to study their ;
‘products.
“We started off doing all ;

the post mortems,” Rau
said, “But as the cost (of
failure) goes up and up,
companies are spending
more and more before-accl-
dents occur on failure pre-
vention work.” .

nitrate’

Manly
president’ of the American
Meat Institute, hailed the
findings "as no surprise”
among those who have
eritizied the 1973 MIT report.

Molpus,
organization is financed by
the meat industry, said:
“The American consumer is
the real beneficiary” of the
gove rnment’s ‘an-
nouncement on nitrite.

The MIT study was con-
ducted by Paul Newberne, a
leading expert in the field of
nutritioninduced disease,
under contract with the
FDA.

After Newberne's report
was released, the FDA and
the agriculture department
“reached the tentative
conclusion that nitrite might

’ eause cancer” and con-:

sidered steps that would lead
to its ban as a food additive.

The government agencies,
under pressure from farm.
groups and others who were
skeptical of the MIT study,
also set up a review process

‘ to go over the scientific in-

formation and come‘up with
a determination. ;
Further, it said, a com-
mittee of scientists from
federal agericies — including
the FDA, the agriculture
department, the National
Cancer Institute and the
National Institute of Envi-
ronmental . Health Sciences

. reviewed the pathologists’

findings. ,

K’San womens group
sets pot luck dinner

The K’'San Society's
womens group is having a
pot luck dinner August 24.

The dinner is being put on
to raise money for the
society's transition house
that will serve the Terace-
Kitimat area.

Members of the K’San
Society will be cooking and
serving the dinner them-
selyes in the Legion.

Salad, beverages,
spaghetti and a dessert will
be offered.

All the materials tor the
dinner have been donated by
local merchants.

Molpus, .

whose .

To the Unfit
If you just sit
You won't quit

Being unfit. _
_G

he could do to stop the crews
from cutting a rodd’ and
sinking a well on the land he
cleared to grow pedigreed
seed.

‘But Larry Bomford, the -

provincial’ government's

district agriculturalist, says,

Hadland’s isn’t an ‘isolated,

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