C44—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Fabruary 16, 1860 DES MOINES, la. - Top priority issues of concern to the nation’s pork producers were the subject of three days of Congressional visits by over 170 pork producers taking part in the annual Pork Producers Washington Seminar, sponsored by the National. Pork Producers Council. The producers, representing 31 states, called on their respective delegations to authorize and fund a National Academy of Science review of nitrites in food curing, and for voluntary, rather than mandatory nutrition labeling. Council spokesman said NPPC opposes listing suggested nutrients on all labels, especially cholesterol content by percentage, which could well mislead consumers and create un necessary concern over products so labeled. The Council also asks that labeling of imitation and or substitute food products be accurate and free from labeling that would “trade unfairly” on generic products. NPPC Family flocks earn UNIVERSITY PARK - Housewives and mothers are turning back to a cookie jar full of egg money. A family flock of 100 laying pullets, if managed well, can earn $l,OOO a year banking money over and above all costs as net return to labor and management, according to Herbert C. Jordan, Penn State poultry science specialist. “The Secret” is U well managed; which means they select the bird with the best genetic potential. After this you keep the bird in an en vironment where tem perature vanes only bet ween 56°F. and 80*F. and fresh air is available con stantly. The pullet must be cared for every day and led a Swine producers oppose labeling regs representatives say they are concerned, too, over the increased food costs to consumers resulting from the present proposed labeling regulations and legislation. In the area of dietary guidelines, recently released jointly by USDA and HEW, the NPPC expressed con tinued concern on aspects of the guidelines. “The most recent guidelines take a more realistic and positive ap proach to U.S. eating habits because they recommend a balanced diet and eating in moderation instead of singling out a specific food or food component as dangerous,” says Chris Herbert, NPPC Director, Nutrition Services, “However,” she says, “the guidelines continue to im plicate animal products in heart disease without scientific evidence in agreement on this issue. NPPC feels each person must assess individual health needs and act ac cordingly.” Pork producers, con- nutritionally adequate diet or laying ration. If the lady of the house does everything right and each pullet lays 280 salable eggs during the year and if she gathers, processes and markets all eggs at her kitchen door for a dollar a dozen she may have $l,OOO at the end of the year to spend as net return to labor and management. To learn how all of this is done, send a check made payable to: The Penn sylvania State University in the amount of $6.50 (plus 25 cents postage). Ask for Correspondence Course No. 92, POULTRY KEEPING; address your request to: Box 5000, University Park, PA 16802. cerneu over possibility of entry of African Swine Fever into the U.S. and spread of the disease by garbage feeding of hogs, have called on members of Congress for support of legislation prohibiting garbage feeding of hogs except when done under a strict con trol/inspection system. A four-member NPPC study team has recently returned from a three country tour to Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Spain. They told producers that their ob servations show spread of ASF linked to meat from infected or earner pigs and that meat scraps in garbage fed to swine is a vehicle by which ASF gams entry into countries previously free of the disease. “This situation em phasizes the extreme im portance of strict controls on garbage feeding programs,” says Dr. C. Donald Van Houwehng, NPPC’s director of government affairs, and a member of the study group. Van Houweling noted that his group was impressed DEALER INQUIRIES SPECIALIZING IH COMPLETE SYSTEMS FOR HOG AND DAIRY SYSTEMS NEED A FARM - URBAN - COMMERCIAL BUILDING? 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