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1921 Operative Miller 1 July 196/3 M. F. Tiernan, President of the Wallace and Tiernan Co...explained the many advantages of the Agene process for the treatment of flour.

1922 Northwestern Miller 25 Jan. 425/2 (advt.) Agene is not chlorine—nor any form of chlorine.

1932 Cereal Chem. 9 360 When nitrogen-trichloride, commercially known as ‘Agene’, is applied to flour..its aging effect is..to be noticed.

1947 Lancet 23 Aug. 284/1 Acceptability of bread as an article of food is largely increased by the use of an ‘improver’... The one in most extensive use in this country, in America, and in Western Europe is nitrogen trichloride: known commercially as ‘agene’.

1954 Times 22 Dec. 3/5 (heading) Use of Agene to be Discontinued.

2010 Roanoke (Va.) Times (Nexis) 14 Feb. 9 There was a scare about 50 to 60 years ago when a number of dogs developed fits that were attributed to the bleaching agent (Agene) used to make flour white.

1949 Lancet 22 Jan. 143/2 In 1946, Sir Edward Mellanby showed conclusively that the agenisation of flour rendered it highly toxic to dogs.

1998 Med. Hypotheses 51 479/2 The identification of MSO [= methionine sulfoximine] as causal to canine hysteria..led to the abandonment of the agenization of flour in the UK and USA by 1950.

1946 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 14 Dec. 887/2 The agenized flours used in this investigation were not specially prepared overbleached specimens.

1958 New Scientist 27 Nov. 1396/1 At the cost of adding only 1,000 words..the authors could usefully explain such things as ergot and agenised flour.

2000 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 12 Jan. r8 People had noticed that dogs who ate large amounts of agenized flour came down with a bizarre disorder known as aecanine hysteria.