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—La,waster Farming, Saturday, May 15, 1976
$333,109 granted to
HARRISBURG - A total of
17 fairs scattered throughout
the state have been awarded
$333,109 in matching funds
for capital improvements, it
was disclosed by Penn
sylvania Agriculture
Secretary Raymond J.
Kerstetter.
The money was awarded
at a meeting of the Fair
Fund Matching Funds
Committee May 4, of which
Kerstetter is chairman.
Applications from 33 fairs
for the capital improvement
funds were reviewed.
Kerstetter noted that since
1971, funds for capital im
provements at county fairs
have been made available
through horse racing
proceeds. This year the
maximum grant to each
county fair was raised from
$15,000 to $25,000.
Funds will be used by the
Additives considered
WASHINGTON, April 27
The Ui>. Department of
Agriculture (USDA)
recently announced a
proposal to allow additional
uses of the additives, sodium
caseinate and dried whey,
and to formally approve the
use of modified whey in
certain meat products. The
proposal was published in
the April 30 Federal
Register.
According to USDA’s
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (APHIS),
the three substances - all
protein-rich derivatives of
mflk or cheese - are being
considered for use as
thickeners in chili, soups,
and similar cooked meat
products. In addition,
sodium caseinate and
modified whey are being
considered for use as binders
in Bockwurst and other
sausage-type products (Hi the
same basis as' other ap
proved USDA binders.
Modified whey would be
allowed in sausage in
amounts not to exceed 3.5
percent of the finished
product weight, and sodium
caseinate in amounts not to
exceed two percent - which is
considered equivalent to 3.5
percent of other binders.
APHIS nffirial* said that
sodium caseinate and dried
whey already have USDA
approval and are used as
binders in products such as
imitation sausage, soups,
and stews. Modified whey
does not presently have
formal USDA approval. All
additives, however,-are first
approved for use in food by
the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA).
USDA approval is required
when these substances are to
be used in connection with
meat and poultry products.
In accordance with federal
regulations, the presence of
such additives in meat of
poultry products must be
declared on the label in the
ingredient statement, for
example, as “Sodium
caseinate.”
According to APHIS,
binders are added to
products primarily to hold
ingredients together;
thickeners give a product a
heavier texture. Present
meat and poultry inspection
regulations state the purpose
of such additives as “to bind
and extend.” Today, these
additives are used primarily
to bind or thicken; any ex
tension is merely incidental,
APHIS said. The ter
minology in the regulations,
therefore, would be updated
by today’s proposal.
Consumers and other
interested parties are
requested to submit written
comments concerning the
proposed amendment in
duplicate to the Hearing
Clerk, USDA, Washington,
D.C. 20250. Confidential
materials or requests for
oral presentations should be
addressed to the Product
Standards Staff, STS, Meat
and Poultry Inspection
Program, APHIS-USDA,
Washington, D.C. 20250.
The deadline for all
comments - written and oral
- is July 29, 1976.
Comments will be made
available for public in
spection in the Office of the
Hearing Clerk, USDA,
Washington, D.C. 20250.
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fairs
fairs to construct new
buildings, improve the
grounds and exhibit spaces
and other such im
provements.
“County fairs are im
portant to agriculture,”
Kerstetter said when the
funds were awarded. “They
are a way for us to compete
as farmers to improve the
quality of our crops and
livestock and to promote a
better understanding of
rural Pennsylvania and
farm life.”
$11,400; Jefferson Township
Fair, Mercer County, $9,239;
Ephrata Fair, Lancaster
County $1,430.62.
Also, Fayette County Fair,
$25,000; Juniata County
Fair, $25,000; Greene-
Dreher-Sterling Fair, Wayne
County, $25,000; Transfer
Harvest Fair, Mercer
County, $25,000; Middletown
Grange Fair, Bucks County,
$25,000; Jacktown Fair,
Greene County $25,000;
Cameron County Fair,
$16,000; and Clarion County
Fair, $12,539.54.
Besides Kerstetter, other
Fairs and the sums of
money awarded are:
Mercer County Grange
Fair, $7,500; Bloomsburg
Fair, Columbia County,
$25,000; Hookstown Grange
Fair, Beaver County,
$25,000; Manheim Com
munity Fair, Lancaster
County, $25,000; Jefferson
County Town and Country
Fair, $25,000; Clearfield
County Fair, $25,000; Albion
committee members at the
meeting were, Sen. Patrick
J. Stapleton, chairman of the
Senate Agricultural Com
mittee; Milo Zimmerman,
Ist vice president of the
Pennsylvania States
Association of County Fairs;!
E. Neal Mack, secretary
treasurer of the Penn
sylvania State Association of
County Fairs; Edison W.
Osborne, director of the
Agriculture Department’s
Bureau of Markets; and R.
Lee Henney, administrator
of the Pennsylvania Fair
Fund.
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