—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Feb. 12. 15L77._~.-
98
Food inspections save consumers
over *1 million in
HARRISBURG, Pa. • Kent
D. Sbelhamer, Penn
sylvania’s Acting Secretary
of Agriculture, today an
nounced that seizures made
by food agents of the
Department’s Bureau of
Foods and Chemistry
amounted to over two million
pounds of food in 1976. He
said that the food removed
from the market, assuming
it was intended for sale,
amounted to a savings of
$1.55 million for Penn
sylvania consumers.
The Bureau of Foods and
Chemistry serves as a
consumer protection agency
in regard to possible health
hazards and economic
frauds connected with the
sale of food, whether for
human consumption,
domestic and farm animals,
or plants.
Food agents made more
than 24,000 inspections of
food processing plants,
warehouses, food vehicles
and retail food establish
ments, and investigated
1,380 consumer food com
plaints during the year,
Shelhamer said.
Seizures of food are due to
suspected contaminated and
adulterated foods, lack of
registration or licensing and'
a lade of labeling. Most of the
suspected foods were
voluntarily destroyed,
SheUiamer said, by
denaturing and burial in
landfills. Unregistered
products wow returned to
out of state distributors in
some cases. Unlabeled or
mislabeled products were
returned to the shipper,
relabeled or destroyed.
Inspection of the food
Agway local meets
MOUNT ZION, Pa. -
Members of the Lebanon and
Hanoverdale Agway held
their annual meeting here on
Feb. 4 and elected four
farmers to the store’s
member committee.
Elected to three-year
terms were: Robert Oellig,
Jaq.ob Smith, Kenneth
Sellers and Ray Sattazahn.
Elected to the petroleum
committee were Marlin Hitz
and Orville Stauffer.
Member committees were
responsible for guiding local
1976 -
distribution process is only
one of the jobs of the Bureau
of Foods and' Chemistry,
Shelhamer said. The Bureau
also licenses bakeries,
frozen dessert manufac
turers, bottlers, cold storage
plants and milk producers.
Hie Bureau also conducts
inspections of fruits add
vegetables, milk, meat,
pesticides, feed, fertilizers
and limes, and grades
poultry and eggs.
management, evaluating the
store’s service to members
and other customers, and
nominating candidates to the
18-member Agway board of
directors.
A report covering the
Lebanon and Hanoverdale
store’s operations for the
past fiscal year was given by
manager Jack Reed. He told
the 200 members present
that sales volume for 1975-76
amounted to $4,316,324.
The Agway petroleum
operation for the year was
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reviewed by plant manager
Dave Schwoyer.
Committee' chairman
Robert Oellig, who presided
at the meeting, reported on
the Agway annual meeting
held in Syracuse and a
recent Agway Council
meeting. The Agway Council
serves as an advisory group
to the Agway Inc. board of
directors and is made up of
chairmen of Agway store
and representative com
mittees.
A report on developments
within the entire Agway
system was given by
Director Ralph Heffner of
Pine Grove, Pa.
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