City orders that cookie-scented strips in bus shelters be removed
From the San Francisco Chronicle
Rachel Gordon, Chronicle Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO — City officials in San Francisco have ordered the immediate removal of cookie-scented strips from bus shelters — one day after they went in as part of a marketing campaign to promote milk.

The demand was made to CBS Outdoor, the company that holds the advertising contract for the city’s bus shelters, late Monday night.

The company was asked by the Municipal Transportation Agency, which runs the city’s public transit system and has jurisdiction over the bus shelters, to remove the scented strips today, said Steve Shinn, a vice president of the company.

The move came amid public concern over potential allergic reactions to scented products.

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