V COMMITTEE ON
LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE

UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

S. 3176

A BILL TO AMEND THE FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND
COSMETIC ACT, SO AS TO PROHIBIT THE MOVEMENT
IN INTERSTATE OR FOREIGN COMMERCE OF UNSOUND,
UNHEALTHFUL, DISEASED, UNWHOLESOME, OR ADUL-

TERATED POULTRY OR POULTRY PRODUCTS

MAY 9 AND 10, 1956

Printed for the use of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare

COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE

LISTER HILL, Alabama, Chairman JAMES E. MURRAY, Montana

H. ALEXANDER SMITH, New Jersey MATTHEW M. NEELY, West Virginia IRVING M. IVES, New York HERBERT H. LEHMAN, New York

WILLIAM A. PURTELL, Connecticut JOHN F. KENNEDY, Massachusetts

BARRY GOLDWATER, Arizona PAT MCNAMARA, Michigan

GEORGE H. BENDER, Ohio

GORDON ALLOTT, Colorado
STEWART E. MCCLURE, Staff Director

SUBCOMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION AFFECTING THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION

JAMES E. MURRAY, Montana, Chairman
PAT MCNAMARA, Michigan

GEORGE H. BENDER, Ohio
WILLIAM G. REIDY, Professional Staf

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Text of S. 3176..

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Reports:

Agriculture Department.

9

Bureau of the Budget..

Health, Education, and Welfare Department..

6

Labor Department.---

Statements:

Alp, H. H., director, commodity departments, American Farm

Bureau Federation.

68

Baker, John A., coordinator of legislative service, National Farmers

Union...

73

Barker, Shirley W., director, poultry department, Amalgamated Meat

Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, AFL-CIO.- 54, 99

Bendix, W. L., D. V. M., chairman, committee on legislation, United
States Livestock Sanitary Association..

239

Brandly, C. A., chairman, department of veterinary science, Uni-

versity of Wisconsin.

251

Butz, Earl L., Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; accompanied by

Roy W. Lennartson, deputy Administrator for Marketing Service;

Nathan Koenig, special assistant to the Administrator, Agricultural

Marketing Service; Hermon F. Miller, Director of the Poultry

Division, Agricultural Marketing Service; Dr. Roy E. Willie, Chief

of the Inspection Branch of the Poultry Division, Agricultural

Marketing Service, and David L. Hume, assistant to the Director

of the Poultry Division, Agricultural Marketing Service of the

Department of Agriculture.-

21

Cameron, J. Robert, assistant manager, department of health and

hospitals, city and county of Denver, Colo.

92

Cleere, Dr. Roy L., executive director of the Colorado State Depart-

ment of Public Health..

231

Harvey, John L., Deputy Commissioner of the Food and Drug Ad-

ministration, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare... 10

Haskin, Dr. Aaron H., health officer, department of health, Newark,

N. J.

211

Hearl, Joseph, chief meat inspector, meat inspection service, Newark

Department of Health..

214

Helvig, R. J., president of the Conference of Public Health Veteri-

narians, as read by Dr. Sussman

215

Kideney, Mrs. James W., chairman, legislative program committee,

American Association of University Women..

250

Kingman, Harry E., Jr., assistant executive secretary, American

Veterinary Medical Association..

207

Landrum, Hon. Phil M., a Representative in Congress from the
State of Georgia --

197
MacDonald, Dr. Janet L., social studies committee, American Asso-
ciation 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

Schachter, Leon B., vice president, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen of North America, AFL-CIO.

52
Schlosser, Dan, chairman, neat and poultry committee, the Association
of Food and Drug Officials of the United States

205

Shan holtz, Mack F., M. D., commissioner of health, Commonwealth of

Virginia, representing Association of State and Territorial Health

Officers.

49

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Statements-Continued

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Sullivan, T. E., director, division of food and drugs, State Board of

Health, State of Indiana_

235

Sussman, Oscar, secretary-treasurer, Association of State Public
Health Veterinarians_-

77, 222

Triggs, Matt L., assistant legislative director, American Farm Bureau

Federation

68

Wright, Frances, president, Housewives United.--.

229

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-

izations

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

Health.

243

California Farm Bureau Federation.

256

Chef's Famous Foods

252

Columbus, Ohio, Department of Health-

242

Commissioner of Health of the City of New York.

230
Conference of Public Health Veterinarians.

216
Conference of State Sanitary Engineers.

248
Dutchess County (N. Y.), Poultry Association.

256
East Bay (Calif.) Veterinary Medical Association.

247
Florida State Veterinary Medical Association, Inc.

259
Housewives United..

248
International Association of Milk and Food Sanitarians, Inc.- 263
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union.-

260
Leeson Poultry Farms, Clinton Corners, N. Y.

259
Martin, Hon. Thomas E.----

234

Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare-

243

Minnesota State Medical Association

239
Missouri Division of Health.

246 260
Nassau County (N. Y.) Department of Health.

246
National Association of Refrigerated Warehouses.
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives.

255
National Grange.

237
National Poultry Producers Association.

256
National Turkey Federation

254

Nebraska Department of Health.

245

New Jersey Department of Health.

246

North Carolina Department of Agriculture.

242
North Carolina State Grange-

256
Northeastern Poultry Producers Council..

255

Oregon Federation of Butchers of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters

and Butcher Workmen of North America..

249

Oregon State Board of Health...

244
Pacific Dairy and Poultry Association.

258, 259
Payne, Hon. Frederick H.

234
Pennsylvania secretary of agriculture-

255
Poultry Association of Southern California

259
Shearer, Walter S., Sinking Spring, Pa.

255
Skinner Poultry Co., Carrollton, Ga-

254

South Dakota State Department of Health.

250

State Department of Public Health of Georgia -

227
Syracuse (N. Y.) Department of Health --

247
Tuscaloosa, Ala., County Health Department.

248
United Cooperative Farmers, Fitchburg, Mass.

255

University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture, department of

veterinary science.

252

Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of

America.

244

255

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Additional information Continued

Pathologist asks United States Poultry Law—“Not All Sold to Con-

sumer 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-

tute Weekly Letter of the Institute of American Poultry Indus-

tries, November 4, 1953..

Quarantined by State—Diseased Turkeys Found in Oakland, from the

Detroit Free Press, November 17, 1950..

Reassure Buyers of Turkeys-Most Stores Selling Certified Birds,

from the Detroit Free Press, November 19, 1950.-

Resolutions:

Association of Food and Drug Officials of the United States..

Central States Association of Health, Food, Drug, and Feed

Officials

Oregon Federation of Butchers of the Amalgamated Meat Cut-

ters and Butcher Workmen of North America -

Pacific Dairy and Poultry Association -

Some Important Lessons From the Lancaster, Pa., Paratyphoid

Fever Epidemic, from the American Journal of Public Health,

March 1956_-

Summary-Farm Bureau Poultry Committee, the Farmhouse,

Trenton, N. J., May 4, 1956..

Texas Parrot Fever Scandal, from the Merry-Go-Round, Washington

Post and Times Herald, July 26, 1954.

Three hundred turkeys found dead near Romulus, from the Detroit

Free Press, December 8, 1950---

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252

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