The Law: Legal Briefs

> In a series of warehouses throughout the country sit cases and cases of canned lobster bisque, onion soup, lamb stew and various other delicacies—more than 2,000,000 cans in all—that may or may not contain deadly poison. They represent the entire stock of foods processed by Bon Vivant Soups Inc., which were seized by the Food and Drug Administration two years ago after a botulism-tainted Bon Vivant vichyssoise killed a New York banker.

Since there is no way of testing every can, the Government now wants to destroy the entire lot. Bon Vivant, which...

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