Staph Topic for Foods Conference
International attention of food
scientists will be focused on
Penn. State University March 18
to 20 for a conference dealing
with microbiological food safety.
The event will be held in the J.
Orvis Keller Conference Center
at University Park
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inquiries from over 250 food
scientists in the U.S, Canada,
Japan, Germany, and France,
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The formal topic for the
meeting will be staphylococci in
foods While salmonella were a
major cause of food poisoning in
the 1960’5, staphylococci or
“staph” are now the most
troublesome, Dr Ostovar points
out
One of the conference ob
lectives will be to provide in
formation concerning control
measures and sanitation
programs to protect consumers
from illness caused by “staph”
bacteria
Dr Ostovar says 60 percent of
the men and women attending
will represent the food industry.
Also well represented will be
regulatory agencies such as the
Food and Drug Administration,
the U S Department of
Agriculture, the Center for
Disease Control in Atlanta,
Georgia, and state health and
agriculture departments A third
major group will come from
departments of food science and
microbiology at various
universities.
The conference will provide
general and specific information
as to the source, cycle, and
significance of staphylococci in
foods Speakers will update
procedures and techniques used
SEED CORN MAGGOT?
Bullock Grades Adopted
The U S Department of
Agriculture (USDA) has an
nounced revisions in U.S quality
to isolate and identify
staphylococci and to detect en
terotoxins The meeting should
also encourage further
educational efforts to protect
consumers from staphyloccocci
food-borne illness
Giving the keynote address on
the status of staphylococci in food
products will be Dr J. C Olson,
Jr , director of the Division of
Microbiology for the U S Food
and Drug Administration On the
program from the Canada
Department of National Health
and Welfare in Ottawa will be Dr
N Dickie, head of the
Biochemistry and Microbiology
Division. Discussing national and
international surveillance, from
the Center for Disease Control,
Atlanta, Georgia, will be Dr W
H Baker, Jr , chief of the Enteric
Diseases Section
Further details on this up
coming conference on
microbiological food safety are
available from the Agricultural
Conference Coordinator, J Orvis
Keller Building, The Penn
sylvania State University,
University Park. Pa 16802
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 3,1973
grade standards for bull beef that
will distinguish, for the first time,
between beef from young and
older bulls
Officials of USDA’s
Agricultural Marketing Service
(AMS), which establishes
Federal grade standards for
agricultural products, explained
that under the new standards,
beef from young bulls will be
graded on the same standards as
beef from steers However, when
it is Federally graded, it will be
identified with the word
“Bullock,” since presently
available research shows that
beef from young bulls may be
more variable in palalability
than steer beef with the same
quality-indicating charac
teristics The term will appear in
coniunction with the USDA
quality grade shield and will
provide a means of identifying
such beef
USDA officials emphasized
that the revised standards would
not change the grading of beef
that is now generally available in
retail stores and that consumers
could continue to purchase USDA
graded beef with complete
assurance that the quality in each
grade has not been changed
USDA officials noted that very
few young bulls now are being
produced for use as fresh meat,
so consumers should not expect
bullock beef to be immediately
available in volume at retail
meat consumers
Another change in the stan
dards is the discontinuance of
quality grades for beef from
older bulls USDA officials said
that such beef is used almost
exclusively in processed meat
products and that value dif
ference among such carcasses
are dependent almost entirely on
their yields of lean meat For that
reason, older bulls will be yield
graded only
The proposed change in
standards was published in the
March 17, 1972, issue of the
Federal Register (see USDA
press release 958-72). During the
90-day comment period which
followed, 87 comments were
received. Of those, 59 favored
adoption of the revisions as
proposed. Seventeen other
comments also favored adoption,
but with some modification.
There were 11 comments op
posing adoption. Support was
expressed by most segments of
the livestock industry as well as
by individuals and groups not
associated with the livestock
industry
The revised standards will go
into effect July 1, 1973 and were
scheduled to be published in the
Federal Register Feb. 22, 1973.
Copies may be obtained from the
Standardization Branch,
Livestock Division, Agricultural
Marketing Service, U S
Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D.C. 20250.
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