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November food basket report released by Shelhaiiier
HARRISBURG - The
monthly food basket report
for November showed that
Pennsylvania consumers
were paying less than they
did six months ago for the
average food basket, ac
cording to State Secretary
KentShelbamer.
Shelfaamer said that the
average cost of the 14 food
basket items sampled in
Nitrites called natural defense
CHICAGO, m - Is the
human body’s normal
production of nitrite a
natural defense against
botulism spores which are
all around us? Dr. F.E.
Deatherage, veteran
biochemist at Ohio State
Univ., says there is evidence
this is the case. Despite the
fact that we are exposed
constantly to Clostridium
botulinum spores, for some
reason these spores do not
germinate to active toxin
producing bacteria in the
human gut. Evidence
suggests that nitrite
produced normally in the
intestines is a natural
protection, Deatherage says,
just as nitrite in cured meat
prevents outgrowth of the
feared bacteria.
The evidence Deatherage
Private individuals, corporations
own 60 per cent of U.S. land
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Private individuals and
corporations own about 60
per'cent of the 2.3 billion
acres of U.S. land, while the
rest is owned by federal,
state and local governments
and American Indians,
according to a report issued
recently by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
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Knowing who owns U.S.
land is important, according
to Gene Wunderlich,
economist with the
Department’s Economics,
Statistics and Cooperatives
Service. “Land ownership
affects how wealth is
distributed, how land is used
and, from the Department’s
standpoint, how land policies
are made,” he said. Getting
detailed information on
landowners is often difficult,
according to Wunderlich,
because not all actual
owners may be recorded and
many different people may
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rural and urban stores
throughout the Com*
monwealth in November
was $11.13, up 35 cents from
the October cost of $10.78.
Shelhamer pointed out that
six months ago, in May,
consumers were paying
$11.15 for the same items.
Food basket costs were
highest in July this year at
$11.30 for the food basket.
He noted that food was still
cites relates to sudden infant
death syndrome, where
babies die in their cribs for
no apparent reason. It has
been shown that many of
these fatalities are due to the
outgrowth in the infant’s
intestine of Clostridium
botulmum spores to active
vegetative bacteria which
produce enough toxin to kill
the baby. “It is reasonable
then to consider that normal
. bacterial nitrification
processes producing nitrite
have not been sufficiently
developed in the first months
of life to protect some
babies,” the Ohio State
scientist observes. “This
idea needs further study.
Nevertheless, it has suf
ficient' merit to cause the
Sioux Honey Association to
issue a notice of warning
hold rights to the same piece
of land.
About 7 to 8 million farm,
ranch and forest owners hold
close to 95 per cent of all
privately held land, while
the two per cent of the U.S.
land used for housing is
owned by between 47 and 58
million people. Commercial,
industrial, recreational and
other uses account for the
remaining three per cent.
In the report, Wunderlich
describes the status of data
on U.S. landownership
analysis, policy formation
and administration. He
explains how landownership
terms often confuse the
understanding and use of
data, he suggests im
provements in data systems
that could help obtain more
useful information and he
describes the national
landownership survey being
conducted by 'the depart
ment.
Single free copies of
a bargain with prices below
levels of six months ago, and
said that consumers should
“recognize the tremendous
„ job our farmers have donein
production which helped
keep food prices below the
national inflation rate.”
According to the survey
conducted by the
Agriculture Department’s
Bureau of Rural Affairs, all
then Uuney aim mu uut we lea
to infants less than one year
old. Honey, which is almost a
sacred food to some faddists,
is well laced with botulinum
spores.”
Dr. Deatherage also
provided these figures on the
amount of nitrate - which
converts to nitrite in the
human mouth and intestines
• occurring naturally in
certain vegetables: celery,
up to 2600 parts per million;
lettuce, up to 1400 ppm;
radishes, 2400-3000 ppm;
zucchini-squash, 600 ppm.
Cured meats contain
maximum of 156 ppm nitrite
-bacon, 125 ppm.
Deatherage said the
Delaney Amendment and
other regulations need
revision to place them “in
concert with the laws of
nature...”
“Facts, About U.S. Lan
downership” (AIB-422), are
available by 'writing:
ESCS Publications, room
0054-S, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington,
D.C. 20250. Please indicate
yourzipcode.
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six regions in the com
monwealth showed an in
crease In the cost of the food
basket in November,
ranging from 14 cents in the
southwest to 67 cents in, the
southeast central region.
The southwest region
showed the highest price in
the state with a food basket
average of $11.42. The
northcentral region con
tinued as the least expensive
region with foodbasket costs
listed at $10.87.
The difference in the cost
of the food basket purchased
in rural stores versus urban
stores in November was 2.26
per cent. Rural shoppers
found their food bills 25 cents
more expensive for the same
items as urban shoppers
during the month.
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, The savings in purchasing
Storebrand rather , than
namebrand items in
.November decreased from
the 11 per cent registered in
October to nine per cent in
November. The statewide
average cost of selected food
basket items was $7.08 for
Storebrand goods compared
to $7.74 for namebrand.
Eight products, selected to
allow, consumers a con
sistent choice between
namebrand and Storebrand
varieties were sampled for
the comparison*
Of the 14 products, only
cornflakes "decreased in
price during November,
going from 70 cents to 6£
cents a pound.
Items increasing in price
in November were coffee
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from $2.81 to $2.86 a pound;
whole chicken, from 64 to 6{
cents a pound; eggs, from 8]
to 88 cents a dozen large
eggs; ground beef, froir
$1.28 to $1.35 a pound; anc
American Cheese, from sl.7*
to $1.87 a pound.
Items fluctuating less that
a cent were potatoes, i;
cents a pound; cabbage, i:
cents a pound; cantiec
peaches, 39 cents a pound
canned com,' 36 cents ;
pound; sugar, 29 cents ;
pound; shortening, 64 cents <
pound; and bread, 43 cents <
pound.
The monthly food baske
survey is intended to providt
Pennsylvania consumer:
with information on foot
pricing trends in the com
monwealth.
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