January 24, 1984 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     MONTREAL (CUP) -— 
     
     Cafeteria trays used in bac- 
     
     teria and radiation research 
     
     are back in circulation at 
     
     Concordia University, after 
     
     cafeteria workers indiscrimi- 
     
     nately swept the downtown 
     
     campus for wayward trays. 
     
    

    
     The workers took the trays 
     
     from areas marked “author- 
     
     ized personnel only” and 
     
     from at least one room with 
     
    
   
   
    
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     a radioactive warning sticker 
     
     on the door. ‘ 
     
    

    
     One university researcher 
     
     who asked his name not be 
     
     used, said the trays, which 
     
     students are now eating off, 
     
     were being used for “drug 
     
     research, in labs where radio- 
     
     active chemicals were in use, 
     
     and biochemistry labs that 
     
     were using them for mutating 
     
     cultIires on. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “They use them not only 
     
     for radioactive things but 
     
     they could also be used for 
     
     carcinogens  and a lot of 
     
     plastic soluble substances  
     
     that becomes part of the 
     
     tray,” the researcher said. 
     
    

    
     Robert Roy, Concordia’s 
     
     acting vice-rector academic, 
     
     says the cafeteria’s dish- 
     
     washers can make the con- 
     
     tarninated trays safe for 
     
    
   
   
    
      unclear trays confiscated at, Concordia 
     
    
   
   
    
     regular use. 
     
    

    
     Roy said the situation 
     
     “disturbed” him. “No one 
     
     should be eating off things 
     
     that have been used in the 
     
     lab,” he said. 
     
    

    
     “It’s conceivable that some 
     
     things that get into the plastic 
     
     were used._ But something 
     
     that’s in plastic is probably 
     
     going to stay there. The truth 
     
     of, the matter is we’re exposed 
     
    
   
   
    
     to many things in the pack- 
     
     aging and processing of 
     
     food,” he said. 
     
    

    
     The trays found their way 
     
     into the labs when researchers 
     
     used them to bring in food. 
     
     Roy said he tried to provide 
     
     dining facilities to discourage 
     
     graduate students from 
     
     eating in labs, but was not 
     
     successful. 
     
    

    
     Bill Tageau, Saga foods 
     
     manager at Concordia’s 
     
     downtown campus, blamed 
     
     the problem on the re- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     searchers. 
     
    

    
     “It’s unprofessional on 
     
     their part,” Tageau said. “if 
     
     we went into their labs and 
     
     took their stuff they’d come 
     
     down here and raise hell.” 
     
    

    
     Tray search tactics at 
     
     Concordia are draconian. 
     
     The search which put the 
     
     radioactive trays into circu- 
     
     lation happened early one 
     
     Sunday morning, and there 
     
     have been skirmishes ovei 
     
     Saga staff going into re 
     
     search labs at other times. 
     
    
   
   
    
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