Pizza Lovers Buy Blindfolded
STRONGSVILLE, Ohio - You
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you buy frozen meat pizza. Why?
Because 75 percent of those pizzas
use fake cheese - but consumers
are not aware of it.
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) controls the
content and labeling of frozen meat
pizzas. Current USDA policy
permits manufacturers to use 90
percent fake cheese and only 10
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percent real cheese. Only the
ingredient list must indicate that
this imitation or substitute cheese
is used. But the ingredient list is
not required to say how much of
the cheese is fake.
According to USDA studies,
most consumers do not read
ingredient lists. Even if consumers
did read ingredient lists, they
would have to be dedicated to wade
through the typical frozen meat
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pizza label Some run nearly a foot
in width and an inch long and
contain 150 words or more.
This consumer deception could
end if enough interested people tell
USDA what they want. USDA has
proposed a new policy The new
policy would require a stated
minimum amount of cheese on
frozen meat pizza, and half that
minimum would have to be real
cheese. If any fake cheese is used,
the name of the product must say
so.
The pizza manufacturing in
dustry is divided over this issue.
Manufacturers who use mostly
imitation or substitute cheese do
not like the idea of telling con
sumers this on the front of the
package where it is clearly visible.
Pizza makers who use only 100
percent cheese strongly support
the government’s new proposal.
They believe consumers ought to
know exactly what they are
buying.
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Hie dairy industry likes the
proposal too. While real cheese
sales would only be marginally
increased under the plan, an in
dustry representative Gordon
Riehl, general manager of Milk
Marketing Inc. (MMI), a regional
dairy marketing cooperative, said,
“It’s time this deception ends.
Without a declaration on the front
of a food package where people
will notice it, very few people know
they’re buying pizza with fake
cheese. If that’s what they truly
want, that’s okav. but thev should
FFA officers tour N.J.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Steven
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FFA Secretary, Bill Caraway, the
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Central Region, Rhonda Schulen
and the Star American Farmer,
Jim Tugend, on a business and
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be able to tell without a magnifying
glass and a degree in food science.
We applaud USDA for this new
proposal.”
USDA is now collecting opinions
for their new cheese regulation.
Interested consumers should write
to USDA before April 2, 1984.
Contact: USDA Regulations Of
fice, Annie Johnson, FSIS Hearing
Clerk, Docket No. 78-733 E, Food
Safety & Inspection Service,
USDA, Room 2637, South
Agriculture Bldg., Washington,
D.C.20250.
Businesses and industries are
visited by the officers as a part of
their training for a year of service
to the FFA. They gain knowledge
of corporate settings by visiting
with executives while the
executives gam an understanding
of the largest school youth
organization - the FFA.
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