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NEW YORK, N.Y. -
Three firms are testing the
U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s proposal that
USDA inspectors in meat
and poultry processing
plants be permitted to use
data from the plant’s
department-approved qual
ity control systems during
the inspection process.
Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture Carol Tucker
Foreman said she is “very
encouraged” by the pilot
programs at Peter Echrich
and Sons, Chicago a
manufacturer of sausages
and speciality processed
meats; the Kroger Co.,
Salem, Va. a distribution
center for Kroger grocery
stores where meat products
are cut, boned and
African
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
African swine fever, deadly
viral disease of pigs that is
threatening to mvade the
Umted States, has cut
market supplies of pork in
the Dominican Republic by
20 to 25 percent, according to
the U.S. Department of
Agriculture.
The disease was
discovered in the Dominican
Republic, Haiti and Brazil in
1978-79, and could easily
spread into this country, said
F. J. Mulhem, administrator
of USDA’s Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service.
“If an outbreak should
occur in the Umted States,”
he said, “it is probable that
this highly contagious
disease would spread
rapidly to all sections of the
country-uniess immediate
steps were taken to control
it.”
Plans for a U.S.
emergency ASF eradication
program have already been
developed. State and federal
animal health authorities
will go to work immediately
upon confirmation of a
domestic outbreak But the
fever strain active m the
Dominican Republic is
difficult to find and
diagnose.
Mulhem is urging all U.S.
hog producers to be alert for
sick pigs and to call their
veterinarians immediately
for diagnosis.
This is only the second
time that ASF has
penetrated the Western
firms begin testing voluntary quality proposal
packaged; and Tyson Foods,
Monet, Mo. a packager
and shipper of fresh whole
chickens and chicken parts.
“We are off to an excellent
start in these three plants
and expect 12 more plants to
participate in providing us
with data on the concept,”
Foreman said. “We are
confident this program will
not wily unprove overall
consumer protection, but
will do so in an efficient and
economical fashion.”
“Within the next few
months,” she said, “USDA
will establish as many as 12
additional pilot projects in
processing plants
throughout the country, with
each test project expected to
last about four months.”
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swine disease threatens U.S.
Hemisphere. The first tune
was m 1971 in Cuba, when
over one-third of the island’s
swine either died or were
destroyed so as to wipe out
the disease.
“The effects of such mass
death and slaughter in this
country are unimaginable,”
Mulhem said, “especially m
this day of rising food
prices.”
The Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United
Nations estimates there are
only one-third as many live
Track prices too high?
- Try trading corn
LANCASTER - If you’re
having a hard time finding a
market for your corn or
wheat, you might be in
terested m a new “gram”
dealer in town.
Lancaster has a truck
dealer with a ntw sales
angle he buys corn and
wheat and the truck it’s
brought in on, when he sells
you a new truck
Dick Fetters, general
manager for Larry Murphy
Chevrolet, Old Harrisburg
Pike, said that he is buying
corn and wheat for $5.50 a
bushel and is selling it to
Pennfield for $2 85 per
bushel.
So far, Fetters said, they
have sold about six trucks to
farmers who traded their
are being considered at S.
Clyde Weaver, East
Petersburg, Pa.; Berks
Packing Co., Reading, Pa.;
Holly Farms, Wilkesboro,
N.C.; Saluto Foods, Mon
tgomery, Ala.; Edwards
Sausage, Lawrenceburg,
Ky.; Armour, Ft. Madison,
Iowa; Oscar Mayer, Sher
man, Texas; Portion Trol,
Mansfield, Texas; Cudahy,
Denver, Colo.; and Safeway,
Stockton, Calif.
USDA proposed a
voluntary quality control
program for meat and
poultry processors Sept. 14.
The pilot project will test the
idea behind the proposal.
Foreman said the pilot
project will provide USDA’s
Food Safety and Quality
Service with detailed in
pigs in the Dominican
Republic now as there were
before ASF infected the
country.
To help stop entry of ASF
into this country, U.S.
Customs and APHIS officials
are cooperating in in
specting all pork-related
products entering the Umted
States.
Additiona 1 inspectors have
been added in Puerto Rico,
the New England area, New
Jersey and Texas to increase
surveillance over garbage-
gram and truck on a new
pick-up or stake frame truck
that was in stock.
When asked why they were
paying more for the gram
and selling it for less, Fet
ters said their business was
indebted to the farmers of
Lancaster County and the
surrounding area.
“With the international
crisis going on, and the gram
embargoes m effect, we
wanted to help out,” said the
general manager.
He said this gram trading
on new trucks will be gomg
on until the end of February.
• After the gram, 1 might
try the same thing with
milk,” Fetters added.SM
formation on the operation of
quality control programs in
both large and small plants
and m plants with various
types of processing
operations, including
processed, cured and
smoked meats, canning and
prepackaging of raw
poultry.
“From the correspon
dence coming to USDA, it’s
obvious there’s some con
fusion about USDA’s
responsibility under the
quality control program,”
Foreman said, “including
the misconception that in
spectors will be removed
altogether from plants that
have such programs.
“Under no circumstances
is USDA relinquishing its
feeding premises. ASF can
spread in garbage fed to
hogs if it contained infected
pork scraps not cooked to kill
the virus.
APHIS also is cooperating
with FAO, the Agency for
International Development
and the Dominican Republic
in a pilot eradication
program in that country. At
present, slaughter of ex
posed animals is the only
eradication technique, since
no effective vaccine has
been developed and no
treatment is known.
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labeled as required in the
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“This pilot program will
help USDA design a strong
monitoring program, that
includes daily visits to plants
by USDA inspectors, which
will meet those respon
sibilities,” she said.
The proposed regulation
being tested would permit
USDA inspectors in
processing plants to use data
from department-approved
qulaity control systems
operated by the plants.
USDA approval would be
based on ability of the
system to assure production
of products in compliance
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“We appreciate the
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“We feel industry-operated
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