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type of product the public would
be interested in. and if it met the
Haagen-Dazs image,” she said.
She also worked on two other
Extraas flavors that Haagen-Dazs
was already developing. She did
stability testing on Brownie Nut
Blast, a chocolate frozen yogurt
with brownie chunks and pecans,
and Raspberry Rendevous, vanilla
frozen yogurt swirled with rasp
berry sorbet “The frozen yogurt
base has four percent fat and the
raspberry sorbet is fat-free,” mak
ing the complete product very low
in fat Keener noted.
Keener’s experience at Haagen-
Dazs cemented her interest in pro
duct development The skills she
learned as an intern can be applied
to any food, she said.
This past summer Keener was
an intern at M&M/Mars in Eli
zabethtown, where she did lab.
research on one of the major cho
colate brands, exploring various
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properties of chocolate. And, “the
place smelled wonderful,” she
said.
The M&M/Mars job was more
research-oriented than her
Haagen-Dazs experience; she ran
experiments and analyzed pro
ducts she made. Here also, she had
to taste her creations. While readi
ly admitting to being a chocoholic,
Keener said she “tried not to
always consume the product You
start to pay for it after awhile.”
The daughbter of D. Mark and
Elisabeth Keener of Chambers
burg. Keener was recently
accepted at Kansas State Universi
ty’s graduate school in the field of
grain science. She would like to
work as a product developer for a
food company that markets com
plex carbohydrate foods such as
cookies, cakes and crackers.
Calling her internships “won
derful opportunities that I
snatched up,” Keener said that
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such work experiences “are great
for applying classroom know
ledge to die real world of the food
industry. In school, we learned a
lot of theory, but we didn’t get to
make new foods.”
While she may not have been
creating new taste sensations at
Penn State, she was part of the
school’s long-standing ice cream
tradition. She worked in the
Creamery one summer helping to
process dairy products. Later, she
gave tours to visitors, explaining
how raw milk from the school’s
dairy herd was transformed into
ice cream and cheese.
Keener’s association with Penn
Slate starred while she was still a
student at Chambersburg Area
Senior High School. Between her
junior and senior year, she
attended the five-week Pennsylva
nia Governor’s School fra- the
agricultural sciences at Penn
State.
This experience clilnched her
decision to be a food science
major, she said. She especially
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enjoyed the “From Bean to Bar”
lab at the Governor’s School,
where students process cocoa.
“This was an aspect of agricul
ture that I hadn’t been exposed to
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says a safety expert in Penn
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“Each year, approximately 300'
American fanners die in tractor
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Some 1993 tractors now in
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belt. “So far, only one U.S. tractor
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ped with a passenger seat,” Mur
phy says. “Whether others will
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U is common practice for trac
tors sold in some European coun
tries to have a passenger seat, but
American farm safety profession
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merits of the device.
By offering an extra seat, U.S.
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that farmers do not always choose
the safest course of action. “An
extra person will ride on a tractor
for various reasons, including in
struction or convenience,” Mur
phy says. “Allowing an extra rider
on a tractor can become deadly.
before,” she said. ‘There’s a lot of
chocolate research going on here.
The American Cocoa Research
Institute is pan of the Food Sci
ence department here.”
Unfortunately, it happens. For in
stance, employees will ride on a
tractor for transportation around
the farmstead and the field.”
Murphy says that the best poli
cy remains keeping extra riders
off a tractor. “But if people aren’t
willing to do that, at least this seat
offers some protection. The pas
senger seats are available only in
tractors that have an enclosed cab
with a rollover protection struc
ture, or ROPS, which prevents the
rider from falling into the path of
the tractor.
“The seat’s design also discour
ages long rides, which is good,”
Murphy says. “It’s too early to say
these seats are absolutely safe, but
they do provide a safer location
for a passenger than those typical
ly selected on tractors without
provisions for a rider.”
A property positioned passeng
er is less likely to hamper the safe
operation of the controls or ob
struct the operator’s vision. “If an
accident does occur, the passenger
is less likely to be injured in a pas
senger seat with the seat belt se
cured than in any unrestrained lo
cation,” Murphy says.
However, Murphy fears that
some fanners will abuse the de
vice. “The seat is designed only
for short rides and is not intended
for children,” he says. “If farmers
don’t respect those limitations,
tragedies may result.”
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