Abstract
Ellis, Gabathuler and Karliner [Phys. Lett. B 217 (1989) 173] have recently proposed on theoretical grounds that the Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka (OZI) rule does not apply to baryonic vertices because baryons contain a significant number of strange quark-antiquark pairs, and they claim some phenomological support for this proposal. In the light of this, the excellent data on backward meson production is critically re-examined. We find some evidence for OZI-evading couplings for the case of the φ, and put bounds on any OZI-violating couplings of the f2′ (1525). The violations found do not follow the pattern predicted by Ellis et al. and are also so small as to make their significance questionable. We also re-examine the data on the related question of Z* (exotic baryon) exchange.
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