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THE COVINGTON NEWS —THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1976
Food safety:
A joint effort
Food safety must be a joint effort.
For meat and poultry, that means
consumers must continue the job
the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) begins in order to
maintain the wholesomeness and
safety of these products they buy
and bring into the home.
A recent government report in
dicated, unfortunately, that many
homemakers interviewed in a food
care survey relied almost com
pletely on government inspection of
fresh meat and poultry for product
safety — discounting the fact that
fixKl [xnsoning bacteria are always
present in the environment and the
human body.
According to USDA's Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service
(APHIS) meat inspectors, it takes
a clean environment — in the meat
plant and in the home — to protect
clean and wholesome products.
Ordinary sanitary practices, used
conscientiously throughout the food
handling process, will reduce
bacterial contamination and
prevent many foodborne diseases.
Under the Federal Meat and
Poultry Inspection Program,
APHIS required that slaughtering
and processing plants observe strict
rules of sanitation and processing.
If similar rules are not observed
when products are handled at
home, the work APHIS begins may
become undone and a potential
health hazard may result.
The rules are simple. They boil
down to, first, washing away from
food, utensils and food-contact
surfaces as many of the harmful
bacteria as possible, and then,
killing or stopping the growth of
those remaining at the proper time
by controlling the temperatures at
which foods are prepared, stored
and served.
How consumers can apply these
rules and continue the protection
provided by the federal inspection
Mansfield
Mra. Wilbur Jones
Phono 7M-2MO
Mr. and Mra. Jim Hitchcock had
their children and grandchildren as
dinner guests Thanksgiving Day.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pace and
girls were their Sunday dinner
guests.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mclntosh
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Randy Phillips and girls.
Rev. and Mrs. Paul Wolfe and son
Eric spent the holidays with their
parents at Enterprise, Ala.
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Ragsdale and
Lee spent Thanksgiving with their
|>arents, Mr. and Mrs. George
Ragsdale.
Mr. and Mrs. Leßoy Wyatt with
his brothers, Mr. and Mrs. Milton
Wyatt and Mr. and Mrs. Carlton
Wyatt of Farrow spent Sunday with
their brother and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Walker Wyatt in Augusta anil
helped celebrate his 71st birthday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hylick had
as their houseguests last week Mrs.
Hylick's sister, Mrs. Lynda
Schassler of Fayetteville, Ark. and
Thanksgiving Day the Anschutz
family of Evans were their guests.
Mrs. Henerietta Jones of East
Point spent Monday and Monday
night with Mr. and Mrs. Hal Cline
ami Cindy.
Mrs. C. R. Goodrick spent Thurs
day and Friday with the Brantley
family in Covington.
Mr. and Mrs. Hughie Womack
viaited Mrs. India Kate Cargile in
Monticello Saturday.
Mrs. T. G. Turner returned home
Saturday after spending two weeks
with her children in Doraville.
Mr. and Mrs. John Bledsoe and
children of Ocalla, Fla. spent the
Thanksgiving holidays with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. D.
Bledsoe.
Mrs. Msttie I. Crawford spent the
weekend with the Crawfords in Cov
ington.
Mrs. Man Smith returned to her
home in Macon after spending two
weeks with her mother-in-law, Mrs.
Will Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Curtis of
Atlanta spent Thanksgiving with
their mother, Mrs. Annie Curtis.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Curtis. Mr,
and Mrs. Robert Curtis visited their
mother during the week.
program is the message of an on
going APHIS food care campaign.
Single copies of food safety
publications containing tips on
purchasing, handling, cooking, and
storimg meat and poultry products
are available to the general public
upon request. A semi-technical
publication on frxxlborne bacterial
poisoning is available to educators,
science writers, nutritionists and
others who need more than general
information about the problem.
In addition, APHIS distributes
food safety spot announcements —
both audio and visual — to local
radio and television stations for use
as public service messages to their
communities. Local newspapers
publish APHIS-originated feature
articles on timely food safety
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For more information, or to
obtain any of the available food
safety materials, interested persons
may write to APHIS Information,
USDA, Room 206, 1718 Peachtree
Street, N.W., Atlanta, Ga. 30309.
ONIONS FAMOUS
Onions have had a loyal following
for a long time. In bygone days,
restored health was attributed to
onions, and some people wore
garlands of onions around their
necks to safeguard health. Claims
were even made that hair had been
regrown on bald heads annointed
with onion juice. Onions’ curative
pwoers have been downgraded, but
their nutritional value and flavor are
accepted enthusiastically.
Who gets butter
and egg money?
So much for the whims of Mother
Nature. That still doesn't tell the
whole story of retail price changes
on your gallon of milk or carton of
egg»-
While milk prices are controlled
on the farm level, dairy prices in
stores fluctuate with the market
situation. That means that
operators or chain stores can set
whatever price they think shoppers
will pay.
“Milk is a common ‘loss leader’ or
‘come-on’ item in North Georgia,”
says the marketing specialist.
“That’s grocery store talk for
selling items for less than cost to
draw in shoppers.”
For example, Thomas explains, a
grocery store owner might pay
$1.77 for a gallon of milk and then
turn around and sell it for $1.29 a
gallon as a “loss leader” or, in
stead, for $1.89 which would he
close to cost plus normal markup.
Thomas found that milk is used
as a loss leader more often in
North Georgia and heavily popu
lated areas than in small towns. He
says that may be due to the lack of
competition among stores in small
towns in South Georgia.
Other food items also show large
price differences that leave the
consumer confused. The price of
eggs is up about 5 cents over the
level a year ago.
According to Thomas, with high
production costs last year, farmers
were losing money, so many cut
back their production. Nationally,
that resulted in a reduction of
almost a million hens.
But the favorable prices now may
swing the cycle around to more
production.
Also, Thomas says the demand for
fertilized eggs used in producing
swine flu vaccines and other
medical research did not influence
the table egg market. Eggs in
tended for home consumption are
not fertilized.
Lettuce has also shown large price
jumps in recent weeks.
“One month ago,” says Thomas,
“heavy rains in the main lettuce
producing areas of California
greatly reduced the mature crop
and destroyed many young
plantings.”
That means prices will remain
higher than !<•«» year until after
the price limits paid farmers across
the United States are based on the
supply and demand for milk in the
dairy production centers of
Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Production costs were up for
farmers in that area this year
because of the drought and the
supply of milk “dried up" some,
according to Thomas. In addition,
the demand for dairy products was
greater than last year, so the
farmer got a higher price.
“That increase of about 8.5 cents
per gallon on the farm,” says
Thomas, “has resulted in a price
increase in stores of about 6 to 20
cents, depending on the area.”
Thomas also found that a slight
increase in dairy manufacturing
costs helped to stimulate the rise in
retail prices.
“Hors d’oeuvres” literally means
outside the main design of the
meal. It was originally an ar
chitectural term.
