Bio-Serv, a Frenchtown, N.J., manufacturer of food for experimental animals, is serving up a new product for laboratory primates: Golden Squares, a banana-flavored treat that the company recommends feeding to the animals once a week. Sales manager Hilton J. Sigfried says Golden Squares was developed as "a treat that's nutritionally complete" in response to NIH and USDA regulations that handlers "manipulate the animals' diet so they have some variety in their life; so they don't become cage- crazy. The old way was that they ate the same thing all the time, supplemented with candy, like marshmallows or M&Ms." The monkeys aren't the only ones munching on Golden Squares, Sigfried notes: "I don't know of a monkey handler who doesn't nibble on the food a little bit--they want to know what they're giving the critter. In fact, we have friends ...
