—Uwcistw Faming, Saturday, April 22,1978 100 Consumer group defends farmers 9 antibiotics STAMFORD, Conn. - Consumers will be paying higher prices for meat, poultry and dairy products without any added benefit if a Food & Drug Ad ministration proposal to restrict use of antibiotics in animals feeds is adopted, the Consumer Alert Council has charged. In comment submitted to the FDA, Consumer Alert President Barbara A. Keating said that nearly 30 years of experience using low levels of antibiotics in animal feeds has yet to Comment time extended on horse import rules WASHINGTON - The U.S. tagious equine metritis Department of Agriculture (CEM). a recently has extended to May 1, 1978, discovered veneral disease the deadline for submitting of horses, public comments on proposed federal regulations The proposed new that would specify conditions regulations would permit a under which breeding horses horse over two years old to over two years old (731 days) be imported under specified could be imported from conditions from the United countries affected by con- Kingdom, Ireland and Shoener named Extension dir. UNIVERSITY PARK - J. Allan Shoener, Schuylkill County Extension agent on Penn State University’s Cooperative Extension Service staff, has been appointed coi Extension director ir Schuylkill County, effects .arch 1. According to -s. Ruth F. Funk, region.- assistant Extension director, Shoener will be in charge of educational Extension programming in the county in addition to carrying out his agricultural activities. He was appointed to the position previously held by David L. Kantner who was reveal any apparent negative effect on animals or humans from the practice. However, the same years have seen virtual disap pearance of diseases once commonplace in cattle, hogs and poultry and increased productivity, she said. FDA of its proposal, Mrs. Keating argued, would represent “a scientific and social retrogression.” “It would seem today that we deal with two extremes,” Mrs. Keating .said, “the reckless use of chemicals or promoted to assistant director for the Southern Allegheny Extension Region. A native of Pottsville, Shoener was named to the Schuylkill County Extension staff in April 1977. He earned a bachelor of science degree in animal husbandry from Penn State in 1962. Prior to being named to his present position, he was an administrative assistant for Agway, Inc.; assistant county supervisor for the Farmers Home Ad ministration; and soil conservationist for the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. pesticides without concern about possible side ef fects...(and) a blind ‘determination to rid the countryside of every trace of pesticide and strip our food of anything chemical or unnatural, regardless of proven safety and obvious benefits.” “We believe the FDA would do well,” she con tinued, “to accept the recommendations of the National Advisory Food and Drug Committee to take no action other than to keep France-where CEM has been reported. National veterinary officials would have to certify that specific training records show the horse never to have been bred and never to have been on a farm where horses are bred, and that three suc cessive culture specimens taken from the horse at least seven days apart are negative for CEM. Horses from Australia, where CEM has also been diagnosed, could not be certified under these nroposed rules because USDA veterinarians have not been asked to make on site inspections necessary to determine if Australian horses could meet these modified requirements. Currently USDA regualtions only provide entry requirements for geldings, weanlings, yearlings, or horses im ported under temporary permits-90 days or less-for non-breeding purposes. Public comments on the proposed regulations should be submitted to the Deputy Administrator for Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA,' 6505 Belcrest Rd., Hyattsville, Md. 20782. Barbara A. Keating apprised and ready to weigh any new developments should they be presented.” Mrs. Keating said restrictions on use of low levels of antibiotics in animal feed would have significant negative economic impact on far mers, which would result in higher prices for consumers. Farmers, she said, see a real reduction in animal growth rates, reduced egg and milk production, and a slowing down in breeding of livestock if the FDA proposal is adopted. Use of the antibiotics stimulate animal growth and egg and milk production, and promotes increased fertility. Action to restrict use of these antibiotics, she said, would require use of con siderably more grain to try to compensate for these lost Bob Butera is the only Republican with the courage to take on the Philadelphia Boss. On April 13,1978, Bob Butera called for an end to the “politics of losing, the politics of fear, intimidation and reprisal.” Bob Butera had the courage to stand up and call for an end to the dictator ship of Philadelphia political boss Bill Meehan. Bob Butera has been joined in his drive to end the one-man domination of the Republican Party. He was joined at the Philadelphia news conference by Republican leaders from Pennsylvania Counties as far distant as Beaver and from many mid-state counties. Only Bob Butera has the courage to ask all Republicans to participate and kelp in running their state government. There are no Bosses for Bob Butera... only the people. DobDutera for Republican Primary / Tuesday / May 16 FARMERS FOR BUTERA COMMITTEE Reno Thomas & John Hope Anderson, Co-Chm.; Elizabeth Gemmill.Treas benefits of the antibiotics - a cost that would be borne by consumers at the meat and dairy counters of their grocery stores. Still other factors, she said, would include in creased loss of animals to disease - a circumstance now relatively unusual because of the “Preventive medicine” aspect of the use of antibiotics in feed - and higher veterinarian costs to ATTENTION FARMERS... FREE ESTIMATES ON RODENT CONTROL RODENTS carry diseases which can endanger the health of your flocks. Your business is raising the flocks. Ours is protecting them. Since 1928 Pest control is too important to trust to anyone else fanners. These costs, too, would be passed along to consumers, Mrs. Keating said. Consumer Alert, based in Connecticut, is a national organization of consumers aligned in their desire to preserve freedom of choice in the marketplace and in their opposition to govern ment regulatory actions which result in needless costs for consumers. 1278 Loop Rd. Lancaster, Pa. 17604 717-397-3721
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