B24—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 21,1984
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U S
Department of Agriculture is
mailing teaching kits to elemen
tary schools across the country
this week to open the 1984 National
Food Safety Poster Contest on
“Summertime Food and Fitness.”
The contest an annual event
since 1981 is sponsored by
USDA’s Food Safety and In
spection Service to teach
youngsters how to properly handle
and prepare perishable foods, said
Secretary of Agriculture John R
Block.
The teaching material uses a
picnic theme to explain why people
must be extra careful to
adequately cook and refrigerate
food during the hot summer
months, when more cases of food
poisoning occur. Some 300,000
children were affected by food
poisoning illness last year alone.
The kits also emphasize physical
fitness for youngsters a tie-in to
USDA’s current Food and Fitness
Campaign. Children, as well as
adults, need to understand good
health depends both on safe and
wholesome food and on fit bodies,
Block said.
“We are strongly committed to
consumer educaf' r,n at Tl sr>/\,”
Del. nurserymen to meet
DOVER, Del. The Delaware
Association of Nurserymen will
hold its annual winter meeting
Thursday at the Sheraton Inn in
Dover. The program will start at
8:30 a.m. and adjourn at 4:30.
Registration is $lO, payable at the
door. The event is being sponsored
jointly by the association and the
University of Delaware
Cooperative Extension Service.
The morning session will feature
talks on plant propagation,
plantings for city streets (a report
on the Newark beautification
program), use of computers in the
nursery business, and com
munication.
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said Block “The children’s poster
contest is really just that con
sumer education for the younger
generation
“USDA meat and poultry in
spection assures that products are
safe, wholesome and accurately
labeled when they reach the stores,
but it’s up to consumers to keep
them that way,” Block said “The
poster contest is an excellent
vehicle for getting this kind of
information to children. First they
learn the basic rules of food safety
Then they must use those rules to
design their posters. ”
USDA is sending kits to about
72,000 public and private grade
schools for the 1984 contest, which
runs through March 12 Winners
will be announced in May.
First-place winners and their
teachers will each win a $2OO U S
savings bond, plus a trip to
Washington, D.C., for the June
awards ceremony Parents of the
winners also receive the trip. In
addition, the winning children’s
schools will receive $4OO for library
and audiovisual equipment.
Second-place winners and their
teachers will win $lOO bonds
Third-place winners and their
Following an awards luncheon,
the afternoon program will begin
at 1:45 with presentations on
pruning evergreens, and land
scape designs for southern
Delaware.
From 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. a special
session on pesticide use and ap
plicator recertification will be
presented. This part of the
program will focus on pesticide
safety and insecticides for nursery
and landscape use. Individuals
who attend this session will earn
two recertification credits toward
a restricted pesticide applicator’s
license for turf and ornamental
horticulture.
teachers will win $1)0 bonds
Donors for this year’s prizes are
the National Broiler Council, the
National Pork Producers Council,
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the American Meat Institite and
the National Meat Association
Teachers or principals who have
not received the teaching kit by the
end of December may request kits
from: 1984 National Food Safety
Poster Contest, P.O. Box 14313,
Dayton, Ohio, 45414.