Dairy and Food Sanitation 1982-02
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February, 1982 Vol. 2, No. 2 $5.00 Pages 46-88 ISSN: 0273-2866 Box 701 Ames, Iowa 50010 Dairy and Food Sanitation < 1 ’ k 1 Guidelines, forms, thermometers, Transflow paneling systems are clean smooth, nonporous surfaces. levels—they’re all part of inspecting fast becoming another standard for Result; sanitary walls and ceilings. a dairy. Yet, there’s more to it. An milking parlors and livestock confine¬ By developing these two products, experienced eye and commitment ment areas. both meeting FDA and 3-A standards, are what make you the professional. Transflow panels are made from Norton has given something of value And Norton parallels that experience, a chemically inert, specially formulat¬ to the dairy industry; something that commitment and professionalism ed material. Dirt and bacteria-forming will help you cap-off each inspection with two products that help dairies waste cannot penetrate the easy-to- with your stamp of approval. meet sanitation codes. Norton would like to mail you a Transflow brand tubing. It’s the hat that will remind you of how milk tubing with the blue stripe; the to make your job a little bit easier. stripe that symbolizes consistent Write Norton Specialty Plastics quality. Transflow tubing is con¬ Division, P.O. Box 350, Akron, sidered the standard for milking Ohio 44309, or call toll free; machines, portable transfer systems, 1-8^|321-9634. dumping stations and clean-in-place NORTON k units. lAMFES Sustaining Members Alpha Chemical Services. Inc. GAF National Mastitis Council P.O.Box 431 140West51stSt. 30FStreetNW Stoughton. MA 02072 New York, NY 10020 Washington, DC 20001 Norton Co. Associated Miik Producers, inc. G. B. Fermentation, Inc. P.O. Box 350 8560 West Bryn Mawr One North Broadway Akron, Ohio 44309 Chicago. IL 60631 Des Plaines, IL60016 Oxoid USA, Inc. Babson Bros. Co. H. B. Fuller Co. 9017 Red Branch Rd. 2100 S. York Road Monarch Chemicals Div. Columbia, MD 21045 Oak Brook, Illinois 60101 390 Jackson St. NE Reitman Manufacturing Co. Minneapolis. MN 56421 Bio-Lab 10319 Pearmain St. Oakland, CA 94603 P.O. Box 1489 Kendall Co. Decatur. GA 30031 One Federal St. Seiberiing Associates, Inc. Boston, Massachusetts 02101 Borden. Inc. 11415 Main St. Dairy & Services Div. Roscoe, Illinois 61073 16856 Northchase Klenzade Division Houston, TX 77060 Economics Laboratory, Inc. United Industries, Inc. Osborn Building 1546 Henry Avenue Dairymen. Inc. St. Paul, MN 56102 Beloit, Wl 53511 10140 Linn Station Road Louisville, KY 40223 The Kroger Co. Universal Milking Machine Div. 1212 State Avenue Universal Cooperatives Inc. Darigold Cincinnati, OH 45204 408 S. First Ave. 635 Elliott Ave. W. Albert Lea, MN 56007 Seattle, WA 96109 Maddeiena's Inc. 139 Lakeville St. W. A. Golomski £f Associates Daan Foods Petaluma, California 94952 1006 Martin Dr. West 1126KilbumAve. Bellevue, NE 68005 Rockford, IL61101 Maryland £r Virginia Milk Producers De Laval Agricultural Division Assn., Inc. Walker Stainless Equipment Co. 601 State St. Alfa-Laval Inc. P.O. Box 9154 Rosslyn Station New Lisbon, Wl 53950 11100 North Congress Avenue Arlington, Virginia 22209 Kansas City, MO 64153 Webco Chemical Corporation Michigan Milk Producers Assoc. DKco Laboratories Rt. 197 24270 W. Seven Mile Road P.O. Box 1068-A Dudley, Massachusetts 01570 Detroit, Ml 48232 Detroit, Ml 48219 Mid America Dairymen, Inc. West Agro-Chemical, Inc. Diversey-Wyandotte P.O. Box 1837 SSS P.O. Box 864 1532 Biddle Ave. 800 W. Tampa Amherst, NH 03031 Wyandotte, Ml 48192 Springfield, MO 65805 Eastern Crown, Inc. Nasco International Zero Manufacturing Co. P.O. 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Secretary-Treasurer, SIDNEY BARN¬ • 1 Alert Cook + Bad Can of Mushrooms = A Total 48 ARD, 9 Borland Lab, Pennsylvania State Recall University, University Park, PA 16802. Jr. Past President, WILLIAM ARLEDGE, Roger W. Miller Dairymen, Inc., 10140 Linn Station Road, Louisville, KY 40223. • Purifying Food Via Irradiation 50 Sr. Past President, WILLIAM KEMPA, Ryerson Polytechnic Institute, 50 Gould Richard Thompson St., Toronto, Ont., Canada. Affiliate Councii Chrmn., LEON TOWN¬ SEND, Milk Control Branch, Bureau for • The NSF Seal- Its Formulation and Uses 53 Health Services, 275 East Main St., Charles A. Parish Frankfort, KY 40601. • Microbial Injury Reviewed for the Sanitarian 57 EorroRS J. L. Smith and S. A. Palumbo KATHY MOORE HATHAWAY, Editor, Box 701, Ames, Iowa 50010 • Maintaining Your USPH Rating 64 EARL 0. WRIGHT, Executive Secretary and Managing Editor, Box 701, Ames, Howard Cobb Iowa 50010 EDfTORIAL BOARD H. V. ATHERTON _Burlington, VT K.J. BAKER .... .Rocl(v«le, MD D. 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WEBSTER .... .LeClaire, lA E. ZOTTOLA .... .St. Paul, MN JFP Abstracts 81 48 Dairy and Food Sanitation, VoL 2, No. 2, Pages 48-49-{February 1982) Copyright ©, lAMFES, P.O. Box 701, Ames, lA. S0010 1 Alert Cook + 1 Bad Can Of Mushrooms = A Total Recall ROGER W. MILLER Neither the manager nor assistant manager was in, and the clerk he talked to didn’t seem to sense the possible gravity of the situation. She told Hill to return the cans to There aren't many occasions in which the FDA undertakes a the store and she’d give him his money back. Class /, or total, recall of a product Such a case occurred In retrospect. Hill says he probably never would have earlier this year after an Illinois fireman opened a can of called the Winnebago County Health Department if the mushrooms and became suspicious. When he opened that can clerk hadn’t shown such disinterest. And, if Hill hadn’t he opened up the way for mobilization of a system to prevent a called the health department, a major food poisoning possible outbreak of food poisoning. epidemic might have been the tragic outcome. There were hundreds and possibly thousands of contaminated cans similar to those that Hill had reported. Each of these cans might have contained harmful microorgan¬ "When I opened the first can, the water isms with the potential to produce a dangerous poison. came out.. .sorta pushed itself out.. .The Hill’s call to the county health department set the odor was hard to describe. .It was highly stage for the rest of the drama.