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and said her dairy was packaging
horse flies in her milk.
“When the agent visited the
lady’s home, on a hot summer
day, he found garbage cans just
outside the kitchen and tio
screens on the windows. He had
to tactfully tell the lady that the
dairy had indeed supplied the
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milk,' but the horsefly was her
own.”
Mrs. Alexander went on to
recount a series of genuine horror
stories about snakes in the
grapes, katydids in the TV din
ners, rocks in the mushrooms and
muskrat meat in the hamburger.
She said the ag department with
its 27 bureaus was trying to do a
good jub of policing the food
industry, but there were two
major stumbling blocks.
“Pennsylvania’s general food
law was passed in 1909. Do you
know how many things have
changed since 1909? For the past
four years, our administration
has been trying to get a new food
law passed by the legislature.
Every year we introduce a bill,
and every year it gets shot
down,”
“Another problem is that we
just don’t have enough agents to
police everybody and everything.
If consumers want the quality
and quantity they’re paying for,
they’ll have to report violations to
the department. We think we
have a pretty reliable food in
dustry 'in the state of Penn
sylvania. But we can’t catch the
violators without cooperation
from consumers.”
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Prizes for outstanding news reporters
went to Karen McCarty, left, Laura Wun
derly and Ron Walton. The awards were
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 13; 1973
banquet Thursday night at the Farm and
Home Center.
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