—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. December 30, 1972
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Meat, Poultry Inspection
Schedule Changes Proposed
A proposal announced by the
U S. Department of Agriculture
would amend Federal meat and
poultry inspection regulations on
inspection workweeks, holidays
and overtime.
If adopted, the proposed
amendments would make the
standard workweek for all meat
and poultry inspectors any five
consecutive eight-hour days from
Monday through Saturday. If a
government holiday falls outside
the standard workweek, in
spectors would be entitled to a
holiday on the nearest day in
their workweek —or to holiday
pay, to be charged to the packer
or processor.
The proposed regulations also
define the length of work shifts
for inspectors in different types
of plants and amend the list of
inspector holidays.
Officials of USDA’s Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service
said the regulation changes were
proposed to make scheduling
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policies more uniform between
the meat and poultry inspection
programs, which were merged in
1968, and to accommodate
changes in Federal holidays.
Copies of the proposal, which
were published in the December
12 Federal Register, are
available from APHIS, Room
1658-S, USDA, Washington, D.C.
20250.
Comments on the proposal
should be sent in duplicate by
February 10,1973, to the Hearing
Clerk, USDA, Washington, D.C.
20250. Anyone wishing to present
his comments orally should
contact the Issuance Coor
dination Staff, Technical Ser
vices, APHIS, USDA,
Washington, D.C. 20250, so that
arrangements can be made for
presentation of his views before
the February 10 deadline.
Written comments and tran
scripts of oral comments will be
available in the hearing clerk’s
office for public review.
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Farmer interests are being promoted at Lancaster County Farmers Association to
the Farm and Home Center with this at- explain the role of farmers in producing
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Arsenic Compounds
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) reported
that organic arsenic compounds
have been found in the livers of
broiler-fryer chickens.
USDA’s Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service
(APHIS) says that 14 of 90
chicken flocks sampled contained
illegal arsenic residues (above
one part per million) in liver
samples. These samples are from
USDA’s objective phase
program, indicating a 15.5 per
cent violation level.
in Chicken Livers
Ten of 590 pork samples also
contained above-tolerance levels
of arsenic; these results
represent a continuing decline in
violations found in this specie. All
sampling was done since Jan. 1,
1972.
Organic arsenic compounds, in
amounts up to 90 grams per ton of
feed, are used in hog and chicken
rations to stimulate growth and
improve feed conversion. All
animals are required to be with
drawn from arsenic-containing
feeds for five days before
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slaughter to give the animals and
birds time to fully eliminate the
feed additive.
Reports on these violations
have been turned over to the
Food and Drug Administration of
the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare for in
vestigation. FDA has legal
authority over animal feed ad
ditions. Because of these residue
findings, USDA has initiated an
increased arsenic testing
program to help assure that no
residues reach consumers.