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Members of the Salmonella Enterltldls (SE) Pilot Project met with Gene Branstool, USDA assistant secretary of ag for marketing and Inspection services, second from right, during an orientation tour of the project on Monday. From left, Dr. John W. Hahn, veterinary medical officer, USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; Dr. David Kradel, former director of the SE Pilot Project; Dale Snader, Dutch Country Eggs Farm; Branstool; and Dr. Edgardo Arza, assistant area veterinarian and Interim head of the project. AVOID RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC fe \ L> DRAG AUGER \ FEEDING SCHEDULE? 89®L.e TT€RSH€V HHI EQUIPMENT CO. 255 PLANE TREE DRIVE LANCASTER, PA 17603 REDUCE EGG ACCIDENTS CHAIN FI FEEDING SCHEDULE! this competition is damaged eggs... from feet, toes and collisions. Big Dutchman chain feeders can feed your flocK by running as few as three or four times with little competition for feed, a calmer flock and fewer cracks and checks. COMMERCIAL LAYER CONTRACTS (717) 393-5807 New SE Program Set To Begin October 1 t" - IF YOU ARE... FORCED TO FEED more than four times a day or during peak laying periods, call 811 for your egg casualties or. . . call (717) 393-5807 for information on how our chain feeder pampers your product. .. from cage to carton. ' GIVE US A CALL IF IT’S WORTH YOUR INVESTMENT, TRUST IT TO HERSHEY Dutchman. (Contlnuad from Pag* A 1) an orientation tour to the project, which has set October 1 as the beginning of the project’s “Sec ond Tier” program. The project will initiate a quality assurance (QA) certification program to help control SE in flocks in the Northeast. Plans detailing the startup of the QA certification program, which was announced in May of this year (see page A 27 of the May 8 issue of Lancaster Farming), will be finalized in September, according to Dr. Edgardo Arza, assistant area veterinarian and intermin head of the project. Arza is the temporary project director following the recent resig nation of Dr. David Kradel. "Our goal is to get as many of the 300 and some odd flocks in Pennsylvania as possible on the pFogram,’’ said Arza. The ultimate goal is to have all of them on the program, he said. Actual details of how the prog ram will be implemented are still being outlined. But the foundation of the program, according to the interim director, is to “establish certain basic things producers should do to assure the quality is the safest possible, rather than targeting where SE is and trying to do something about it. “It’s more a standard across the-board risk reduction prog ram,” he said. “It is based more on fundamental principles that will reduce the risk of producing an egg that has SE in it." The program will use certain monitoring tools to allow the pro ject to assure the quality of the program. There will be profession al certification, much like in other industry quality assurance programs. For more information about the project, contact Arza at the USDA SE Pilot Project, 1352 Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster, PA 17601, (717) 399-8810. MHK. IT DOES A BODY GOOD.