Keeping NEW YORK While the United States food supply' iff among the safest in the world, food safety cannot be taken for granted. As summer approaches, outdoor festivities and frequent celebra tions involving food may increase our concern about food safety? Foodbome illness is not a new problem nor is it only related to warm-weather months. Occasion al outbreaks of food-related illness do occur throughout the year and serve as a reminder that food safety is often the consumer’s responsibility. Today, scientists view food (bacterial) contamination to be the most likely threat to food safety. PAUL B. 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This rule also applies to dining out: choose clean and neat restaurant establishments. • Avoid “cross-contamination.” Use separate cutting boards and utensils for raw and cooked items. * Code food adequately to destroy most all food bacteria. Adherence to proper handling May Milk Marketing News the changes or having no order at all. From a procedural standpoint, if you want to give an opinion or pre sent testimony, it must be done at the hearings. Once the announce ment of a hearing is made, you must make it known that you want to make a presentation. You should have it in writing and it would be well to try it out on some of your friends beforehand. STATISTICS Pennsylvania plants manufac tured 90.3 million gallons of ice cream last year which is up two percent from 1986. The state holds second place in National ranking in total icecream production. Cali- Tfie Premium Green Difference. 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Ice milk production in the slate during 1987 totaled 17.7 million gallons, up 10 percent from the previous year. Milk sherbet pro duction amounted to 3.7 million gallons, an increase of 7 percent over 1986. Dairy manufacturing plants in Pennsylvania produced 57.2 mil lion pounds of butter during 1987, down 16 percent from 1986. Creamed cottage cheese produc tion was 37.8 million pounds, up 11 percent while curd cottage cheese production in the states was 42.8 million pounds, an increase of 10 percent over the previous year. Charles Altemus, Penn Run, PA Toll Free Lancaster County Residents Only 1-800-223-9111
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