Business Notes GOODWILL

When Raymond Dunn Jr. was born 15 years ago, he had an undersize brain, was severely retarded and was allergic to all foods except one -- Gerber Meat- Based Formula. Designed for babies who could not tolerate foods based on cows' milk, the product was canceled in 1985, when soybean formulas displaced it. That threatened disaster for Raymond, who still could not eat anything else. His mother Carol Dunn of Yankee Lake, N.Y., made an appeal to Gerber.

Since then, the company has been in constant contact with Dunn, giving her its remaining stock and notifying her of new formulas that her handicapped son, who weighs only 31 lbs., might tolerate. Last week 20 members of Gerber's research and development teams volunteered to produce batches of the formula for Raymond free of charge. Says Gerber spokesman Jim Lovejoy: "Our purpose has always been helping parents with their children."