LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 3176 A BILL TO AMEND THE FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND 78733 MAY 9 AND 10, 1956 Printed for the use of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1956 CONTENTS Page Text of S. 3176. Reports: Agriculture Department.. Bureau of the Budget.. Health, Education, and Welfare Department__ Statements: Alp, H. H., director, commodity departments, American Farm Baker, John A., coordinator of legislative service, National Farmers Barker, Shirley W., director, poultry department, Amalgamated Meat Brandly, C. A., chairman, department of veterinary science, Uni- Butz, Earl L., Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; accompanied by Cameron, J. Robert, assistant manager, department of health and Cleere, Dr. Roy L., executive director of the Colorado State Depart- Harvey, John L., Deputy Commissioner of the Food and Drug Ad- 2 8986 68 73 54, 99 239 251 21 92 231 10 211 Hearl, Joseph, chief meat inspector, meat inspection service, Newark 214 Helvig, R. J., president of the Conference of Public Health Veterinarians, as read by Dr. Sussman 215 Kideney, Mrs. James W., chairman, legislative program committee, 250 Kingman, Harry E., Jr., assistant executive secretary, American 207 Landrum, Hon. Phil M., a Representative in Congress from the 197 MacDonald, Dr. Janet L., social studies committee, American Association of University Women... 250 Oslund, Mrs. Genevieve, legislative assistant, the General Federation of Women's Clubs... 216 Riley, George D., legislative representative, AFL-CIO 218 Schlosser, Dan, chairman, meat and poultry committee, the Association of Food and Drug Officials of the United States Schachter, Leon B., vice president, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Shanholtz, Mack F., M. D., commissioner of health, Commonwealth of Statements--Continued Sullivan, T. E., director, division of food and drugs, State Board of Page 235 Sussman, Oscar, secretary-treasurer, Association of State Public 77, 222 Triggs, Matt L., assistant legislative director, American Farm Bureau 68 229 Wright, Frances, president, Housewives United... Additional information: Chronic Respiratory Disease, from Poultry and Eggs Weekly, April 28, 1956_ 221 5,000 Bad Turkeys Hunted in Detroit-Markets Alerted After Diseased Birds Are Sold by Farm, from the Detroit Free Press, November 18, 1950_. 261 Letters from: Allott, Hon. Gordon_. 234 American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organ- 237 American Nurses Association, Inc.. 238 Association of American Railroads_ 240 American Trucking Association, Inc., 253 Binghamton, N. Y., Department of Public Safety, Bureau of Columbus, Ohio, Department of Health_ Commissioner of Health of the City of New York. Conference of State Sanitary Engineers.. Dutchess County (N. Y.), Poultry Association_ East Bay (Calif.) Veterinary Medical Association__. International Association of Milk and Food Sanitarians, Inc- Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare_ Nassau County (N. Y.) Department of Health.. National Association of Refrigerated Warehouses National Council of Farmer Cooperatives.. 242 230 216 University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture, department of 252 Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of 244 Additional information-Continued Pathologist asks United States Poultry Law-"Not All Sold to Consumer Above Suspicion," Feldman Tells Food Officials, from the New York Times, May 8, 1956-- Poultry Should Fare O. K. in USDA Reorganization, From the Insti- Quarantined by State Diseased Turkeys Found in Oakland, from the Reassure Buyers of Turkeys-Most Stores Selling Certified Birds, Resolutions: Page 88 91 262 262 206 236 Oregon Federation of Butchers of the Amalgamated Meat Cut- 249 252 Association of Food and Drug Officials of the United States___ Some Important Lessons From the Lancaster, Pa., Paratyphoid Summary-Farm Bureau Poultry Committee, the Farmhouse, 89 90 Texas Parrot Fever Scandal, from the Merry-Go-Round, Washington 257 Three hundred turkeys found dead near Romulus, from the Detroit 262 |