Ray, Joe, Arkansas Poultry Federation, Little Rock, Ark. Riley, George D., legislative representative, AFL-CÍO.. Shaw, Seth T., vice president, Safeway Stores, Inc.- Sullivan, Timothy E., Association of Food and Drug Officials of the United States, Indianapolis, Ind... Sussman, Dr. Oscar, secretary-treasurer, Association of State Public Thurnbeck, Clement N., vice president, National Turkey Federation, Triggs, Matt, assistant legislative director, American Farm Bureau Trombold, Charles D., director of quality control, Campbell Soup White, Sterling A., president, Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc., Georgetown, Del. also representing the Eastern Shore Poultry Growers Exchange, the Delaware State Poultry Commission, the Maryland State Poultry Council, the Tri-County Poultry Associa- tion, the Delaware Poultry Improvement Association, and the Eastern Shore Grain and Feed Dealers Association... Winfield, John A., director, division of markets, North Carolina Wollney, Frank G., field service director, Institute of American Miscellaneous documents: S. 313, 85th Congress. S. 645, 85th Congress.. S. 1128, 85th Congress.. Staff comparison of S. 313, S. 645, and S. 1128.. Suggested modifications to perfect S. 1128, S. 313 and S. 645, filed by Statement filed by J. W. Tallman, Jr., general manager, Faribault Turkeys, Inc., Faribault, Minn., and vice president, Minnesota Statement filed by Henry J. Pankratz, Mountain Lake, Minn_-_ Statement filed by Lawrence Erickson, Norbest Turkey Growers Association, Madelia, Minn., also representing the Southern Minne- sota Turkey Growers Association__. Statement filed by Earl B. Olson, president, Farmers Produce Co., Statement filed by T. H. Christgau, manager, poultry and turkey processing operations, Land O'Lakes Creameries, Inc., Minneapolis, Statement of L. L. Baumgartner, Secretary, Minnesota Poultry Hatchery Association, headed "Federal Inspection of Poultry Very Letter to Senator Johnston from Norman Sanders, general manager, Farmers Cooperative Exchange, Inc., Columbia, S. C------- Telegram to Senator Johnston from J. E. Eldridge, president, Sumter Letter to Senator Johnston from J. W. Marshall, Belton, S. C. Statement filed by G. A. Heinze, executive secretary, Minnesota Poultry, Butter, and Egg Assocation, Minneapolis, Minn.. Statement filed by William D. Bolton, Georgia Poultry Federation, Statement filed by Paul G. Thomas, South Carolina Turkey Federa- tion, Sumter, S. C., also representing the Sumter Chamber of Com- merce_ Statement filed by W. L. Walsh, secretary, Alabama Poultry Industry Association, Montgomery, Ala....... Statement filed by A. R. Twiss and B. C. Rogers, Morton, Miss., representing the Mississippi Poultry Improvement Association... Miscellaneous documents-Continued. Statement filed by Theodore E. Schluderberg, president, National Poultry, Butter, & Egg Association, Baltimore, Md.. Statement filed by Howard H. Richey, president, North Central States Institute, Des Moines, Iowa.. Statement filed by J. T. Kissell, general manager, Kissell Bros., Inc., Columbus Grove, Ohio, and president, Ohio Poultry Processors Association____ Statement filed by Wallace H. Jerome, Barron, Wis., representing the Wisconsin Turkey Federation and the Wisconsin Turkey Marketing Cooperative_-_- Statement filed by Milton E. Sahn, New York Live Poultry Terminal Dealers Association, New York, N. Y., also representing the New York Wholesale Slaughter Operators, Inc.---- Statement filed by Charles W. Frank, Sr., executive vice president, L. Frank & Co., Inc., New Orleans, La... Statement filed by J. B. McMillan, president, Texas Broiler Associa- Statement filed by Philip Palmer, vice president, Sherman White Comparative print of S. 313 showing amendments recommended by the Department of Agriculture... Statement filed by Gordon K. Zimmerman, research director, National Telegram to Senator Holland from George Pfaffendorf, business manager, and special international representative of State of Florida Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen (AFL- Statement filed by Harry O. Stratton, Florida State senator, Callahan, Injury frequency rates in manufacturing. Statement by Dr. Harold M. Erickson, Oregon State health officer, on the public health significance of ornithosis (psittacosis) in Letter to Senator Murray from Dr. James R. Amos, director of Divi- sion of Health of Missouri, Jefferson City, Mo.... Letter to Senator Murray from Dr. Lloyd Florio, manager, depart- ment of health and hospitals, city and county of Denver, Denver, Letter to Senator Humphrey from John H. Moorhouse, Moorhouse 151 Letter to Senator Neuberger from L. B. Myers, president, Egg Can- Article from agricultural bulletin, Oregon State Department of Statement filed by Dr. Mack I. Shanholtz, secretary-treasurer, Associ- ation of State and Territorial Health Officers, Richmond, Va.- Statement filed by Dr. Leona Baumgartner, commissioner of health, Statement filed by Mrs. F. C. Dugan, director, division of foods and drugs, department of health, Commonwealth of Kentucky, Louis- Miscellaneous documents-Continued. Statement filed by Elizabeth S. Magee, general secretary, National Consumers' League, Cleveland, Ohio.......... Statement filed by Dr. Janet L. MacDonald, chairman, social studies committee, and Isabel H. Kideney, chairman, legislative program committee, American Association of University Women.. Statement filed by Dr. Harold M. Erickson, State health officer, POULTRY PRODUCTS INSPECTION ACT WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1957 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY, Washington, D. C. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10: 10 a. m., in room 324, Senate Office Building, Senator Allen J. Ellender (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Ellender (chairman), Johnston, Holland, Humphrey, Scott, Symington, Talmadge, Aiken, Young, Thye, Hickenlooper, and Williams. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will please come to order. Off the record. (Discussion off the record.) The CHAIRMAN. On the record. As you gentlemen may know, the last time the committee met it was decided to hold hearings on the so-called poultry bills. We have before us three of them, S. 313, introduced by Senator Aiken for himself, Mr. Williams, and others; S. 645, introduced by Mr. Talmadge for himself, Mr. Russell, and others; and S. 1128, introduced by Mr. Humphrey, for himself, Mr. Chavez, and others. Now, as most of you know, the committee reported to the Senate during the 84th Congress, 2d session, a bill similar to S. 313. In fact, S. 313 is identical to the bill as reported last year. There is very little difference between S. 645 and 313. As I understand, the main difference lies in the bill introduced by Senator Humphrey, which is S. 1128. I was informed that we have quite a few gentlemen who desired to be heard this morning. Since our time is limited, and we held exhaustive hearings on the proposal last session, it is my hope that we will have no repetition. Please listen to each other's testimony and, if you will, many of you may place your statement in the record. Thus you would get on the record and I am sure that the committee would appreciate it. Since we had extensive hearings last year, the committee decided that 2 days of hearings might be sufficient and, with that in mind, I hope that if you come to testify, and if you testified during the last session, on the same issue, please confine your statement to whatever new matter you may desire to present. Now I asked our counsel to study all of the bills before us and to place in the record a comparison of the various bills and, without objection from the committee, I ask permission that this comparison be placed in the record at this point, and I also ask that the three bills now before us be placed in the record at this point. 1 (S. 313, S. 645, and S. 1128, together with comparisons of those bills, are as follows:) [S. 313, 85th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To provide for the compulsory inspection by the United States Department of Agriculture of poultry and poultry products Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Poultry Products Inspection Act." LEGISLATIVE FINDING SEC. 2. Wholesome poultry products are an important source of the Nation's total supply of food. Such products are consumed throughout the Nation and substantial quantities thereof move in interstate and foreign commerce. Unwholesome and adulterated poultry products in the channels of interstate or foreign commerce are injurious to the public welfare, adversely affect the marketing of wholesome poultry products, result in sundry losses to producers, and destroy markets for wholesome poultry products. The marketing of wholesome poultry products is affected with the public interest and directly affects the welfare of the people. All poultry and poultry products which have or are required to have inspection under this Act are either in the current of interstate or foreign commerce or directly affect such commerce. That part that enters directly into the current of interstate or foreign commerce cannot be effectively inspected and regulated without also inspecting and regulating all poultry and poultry products processed or handled in the same establishment. The great volume of poultry products required as an article of food for the inhabitants of large centers of population may directly affect the movement of poultry and poultry products in interstate commerce. To protect interstate commerce in poultry and poultry products inspected for wholesomeness, from being adversely burdened, obstructed, or affected by uninspected poultry or poultry products, the Secretary of Agriculture upon request of the appropriate authority is authorized after public hearing to ascertain from time to time and to designate cities or areas where poultry or poultry products are handled or consumed in such volume as to affect the movement of inspected poultry or poul'try products in interstate commerce. DECLARATION OF POLICY SEC. 3. It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to provide for the inspection of poultry and poultry products by the inspection service as herein provided to prevent the movement in interstate or foreign commerce or in a designated city or area of poultry products which are unwholesome, adulterated, or otherwise unfit for human food. DEFINITIONS SEC. 4. For purposes of this Act (a) The term "commerce" means commerce between any point in any State, Territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof; or between points within the same State or the District of Columbia, but through any place outside thereof; or within the District of Columbia. (b) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture. (c) The term "person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or any other business unit. (d) The term "poultry" means any live or slaughtered domesticated bird or commercially produced game bird. (e) The term "poultry product" means any poultry which has been slaughtered for human food from which the blood, feathers, feet, head, and viscera have been removed in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the Secretary, any edible part of poultry, or, unless exempted by the Secretary, any human food product consisting of any edible part of poultry separately or in combination with other ingredients. (f) The term "wholesome" means sound, healthful, clean, and otherwise fit for human food. (g) The term "unwholesome" means: |