C36—Uncaster Farming, Saturday, May 10,1980 AAMB speaks out on ELIZABETHTOWN - The Amencan Association of Meat Processors’ Stephen Knit recently voiced their feelings to the Food and Dmg Administration on the food labeling proposal outlined m the December 21 Federal Register. “As an organization representing nearly 1,400 predominately small, family-owned meat plant operations, we are vitally concerned that a well thought-out, understandable and affordable (to the consumer and the manufacturer) system be developed,” said Knit. “The AAMP believes that the implementation of a half baked nutritional labeling scheme at this stage would senously jeopardize its long range reception by both the consuming public and the industry.” AAMP strongly supports the concept of nutritional labeling and believes in the right of the consumer to know the composition of the food he or she is purchasing, he added, AAMP also believes it impossible to determine the parameters for a nutritional labeling system until it can be demonstrated that con sumers have a consensus on what they want, what the cost will be to obtain it, and whether they are willing to pay for it. SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT— LOW CLASSIFIED RATES WITH EXCELLENT RESULTS! STEEL FUEL STORAGE TANKS Capacity Dia 285 550 550 1000 1000 2000 HOWARD E. GROFF CO. Fuel Oil, Gasoline, and Coal 111 E. State Street, Quarryville, PA 17566 Several years ago, AAMP commented that the USDA, FDA, and FTC should “get their act together” m the area of nutntional labeling, meaning that three different agencies should not be out promoting three different labeling schemes, but rather should work to develop a consensus. That consensus labeling format should be administered by one agency, not two or three, said AAMP. Knit pointed out that AAMP behves it is premature to go any further at this time than to stnve for a degree of uniformity for a voluntary nutritional labeling system. In this effort, by exposure to dif fering nutritional labeling formats through the open marketplace, shoppers will determine through their purchases which labeling format they find most ac- EAR CORN Paying Top Prices For Good Quality Ear Corn • Wet or Dry • No Quantity to large or I to small • Fast Unloading - Dump on Pile & Go • Easy access - 2.2 miles off 283 bypass-Manheim, 1 Mt. Joy exit • Daily Receiving 7:30 A.M. to 5 P.M. - unload ing evenings & Saturdays by appt. • Trucks available for pick up at your farm. Call Anytime For Price 717-665-4785 JAMES E. NOLL GRAIN NEW UNDERGROUND Gauge Price 12 124 10 203 7 244 10 296 7 357 7 535 PRICES FOB QUARRYVILLE Phone: 717-786-2166 ceptable and most un derstandable. To do anything beyond maintaining a voluntary system and developing guidelines aimed at some degree of uniformity would be to impose on the con sumer a nutritional labeling system that he or she may neither want, understand or be able to afford, he said. Knit said, “Agency and legislative advocates of a mandatory system do not even offer an explanation of what foods would be covered and under what cir cumstances. “Some contend that processed foods would require mandatory nutritional labeling, but fail to define processing. To some a steak need not be nutritionally labeled, unless it is processed by freezing. In the meat industry. Capacity Dia. Gauge Price 4000 64” 10.000 96" 10.000 120” 15.000 120” 20.000 126” 30,000 126” V«" V” 5/16” 5/16” 3/8” food labeling processing can be anything from cutting to freezing to wrapping to fabricating product, all without changing its nutritional value. “But mandatory labeling advocates do not address this issue in any meaningful way.” In summation, Knit said, AAMP must reject the mandatory nutritional labeling proposal as suggested and outlined in the Federal Register as being 10% TO 50% OFF 901 2436 2210 4278 5021 8982 too incomplete, too ill defined, too needlessly expensive and not based on actual needs and wants that are balanced with a willingness to be financed through mcreases m the food shopping budget. A task force approach to attain superior nutritional labeling standards through a cooperative, voluntary approach is AAMP’s recommendation and one that should merit fullest consideration. GARBER OIL CO. [texaco] Fuel Chief HEATING Dll t OIL HEATING EQUIPMENT AIR CONDITIONING MOUNTJOY PA Ph 653 1821