A 36—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 23,1983
BY LAURA ENGLAND
LANCASTER Following a
recent report concerning children
who became 111 after visiting dairy
farms, fanners are being urged to
be cautious in serving their guests
raw milk.
In the report issued by the
national Center for Disease
Control (CDC), two cases were
cited in which people became ill
after drinking raw milk during
field trips to Pennsylvania dairies.
Those affected experienced
symptoms of fever, abdominal
pain, vomiting and diarrhea, the
report said.
One case involved a group of 60
Neighbors Aid Injured Woman
In the true spirit of Lancaster County, New Holland
and Leola residents are pulling together to extend a
helping hand to their neighbors.
Fannie Seller, wife of Elias S. Seiler, a well-known
implement dealer, was critically burned May 31 as the
result of a tractor fire. Seven weeks after the incident,
Mrs. Seiler remains at Hershey Medical Center.
According to Robert Martin, one of Seiler’s neigh
bors, the hospital bills have gone past the $lOO,OOO mark
and are still accumulating.
The Seilers, members of the Amish faith, are not
insured.
Martin and other neighbors are hoping to raise about
$50,000 to pay for half of the hospital costs. They have
recently started a fund for the Seilers at the New
Holland Farmers National Bank. Anyone wishing to
contribute may send checks to the bank, addressed to
the Elias S. Seiler Fund.
For more information contact Robert E. Martin, New
Holland R 3.
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Caution urged in serving raw milk to farm guests
first-graders and three teachers
who visited a south-central dairy
farm, the CDC reorted. Thirty-one
of these visitors became ill. The
second group, 43 kindergarten
students and two teachers, visited
a central Pennsylvania dairy, the
CDC reported, and 26 of the group
exenenced symptoms of
„ gastrointestinal illness.
Because of these cases, the CDC
is urging dairy farmers.to avoid
serving raw milk to their tour
groups.
Deputy press secretary Kevin
Hickey said that the state
Department of Agriculture also
encourages farmers not to serve
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ALLENTOWN - Public
hearings opened this week into the
proposal of the Pennmarva
Dairymens Federation to extend
Fedral Order 4 into 12 Nor
theastern Pennsylvania counties.
Testimony from interested
parties was taken before Ad
ministrative Law Judge William J.
Weber of the USDA from Tuesday
into Thursday.
The Pennmarva Dairymens
Federation is composed of six
cooperatives - Capital Milk
Producers, Dairymen Inc., the
Middle Atlantic Division of Inter-
State Milk Producers, Maryland
and Virvginia Milk Producers
Assn., Lehigh Valley Farmers and
Valley of Virginia.
Lehigh Valley Farmers is
dissenting in the proposed change.
Pennmarva’s request is based on
two main points competing
dealers are paying different prices
for milk and milk is moving bet
ween adjacent federally regulated
and unregulated markets. Com
peting milk dealers in Nor
theastern Pennsylvania thus have
unequal costs because some
proprietary and cooperative plants
are federally regulated while
others are not, according to a
Pennmarva spokesperson. This
results in unstable market con
ditions and lower long-run term
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raw milk to visitors due to the risk
of illness.
Hickey said the department is
concerned about bacteria levels,
which at times, could be high.
Higher bacteria levels can be
attributed to the illness some
people experience, he said.
Through pasteurization, the
BY HAROLD SHELLY
bacteria level is taken care of, he
added.
Symptoms such as vomiting and
diarrhea stem from coliform-type
bacteria which affect the lower
intestinal tract. Farmers build-up
a resistance to this bacteria level,
Hickey said, while others may not
have this immunity.
Farmers who are licensed to sell
Order 4 hearings open
prices, the spokesperson added. If
the proposal is enacted, all han
dlers would pay the same price for
milk used in the same manner, the
spokesperson explained.
Pennmarva represents some
6300 of the 7099 dairymen in
Federal Order 4. The six
cooperatives had combined sales
of more than $1.2 billion during the
most recent fiscal year. Collec
tively, they market more than 4.2
billion pounds of milk annually.
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raw milk must meet the same
standards as those set for
pasteurized milk, Hickey said.
The milk is tested twice monthly,
and farm conditions must be kept
very clean and sanitary.
If farmers are not licensed to sell
raw milk, he said, they should not
offer this on their farms.
Initial testimony at the hearing
was given by James Fraher, Inter-
State economist appearing as an
expert witness for Pennmarva.
The hearing is scheduled to
continue next month.
The 12 counties involved include
Monroe, Northampton, Lehigh,
Berks, Schuylkill, Carbon,
Luzerne, Columbia, Montour,
Northumberland, Union and
Snyder.
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