JOURNAL of MILK and FOOD TECHNOLOGY
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JOURNAL of MILK and FOOD TECHNOLOGY (including MILK AND FOOD SANITATION! Title registered U. S. Patent Office July-August Number 4 Editorials 0p;11iotiS a11d ideas e~;pressed it~ papers and editorials are those of the respective authors. , he expt·essiotls of the Association are completely recorded in the transactions. THE ATLANTIC CITY MEETING Committee, consisting of the three Junior Officers of the Associa is organizing a program that will interest everyone whose profession is food sanitation. The most qualified speakers have been engaged to such interesting subjects as permanent piping, the Ring test, Q fever, of sanitation programs, interstate shipments, detergent sanitizers, milk and cream dispensers, milk ordinances, food plant personnel extraneous material, and others. Excellent color moving pictures show- vanous food processing operations have been scheduled. A special feature meeting this year will be get-together breakfasts. The various committees the Association will meet in a breakfast session; representatives of the Affiliated · officers at another ; a luncheon meeting for the membership at large. mhe officers of the various committees are requested to submit to the Program •vu•um.. c ....... promptly the titles of the subjects of study for the past year so that can be included in the printing of the general program. The Committee welcome suggestions for speakers and subjects but these must be submitted members of the Committee are : ~ · G. Weckel, Chairman, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. C. S. Leete, New York State Dept. of Health, Albany, N. Y. R. L. Thomasson, Indiana State Board of Health, Indianapolis, Indiana. 'T'''H E officers and members of the International Association of Ice Cream l. Jrfanufacturcrs join President McKenzie in inviting the members of the l ~ERNATIOKAL AssociATION oF MILK AND FooD SANITARIANS to attend the International Ice Cream Convention in Atlantic City on October 18, 19 and 20, 1950. The com·ention opens with a joint session with the Milk Industry Foundation on the morning of October 18th, and will run through to the final General Session on Friday afternoon, October 20th. 'ifhe Milk and Food Sanitarians are invited to attend the sessions as gue_sts of the International Association. Those desiring to attend should regtster at the Traymore Hotel. JOU RNAL OF .I:<OOD AKD i.VliLK TECHNOLOGY health department in the shipping state. The state health officer of the shipping NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERSTATE MIL~ state shall report the results of the SHIPMENTS . Health Service is to survey to the regional officer of the e rating procedures of its Public Health Service, to the state of N June 1, 2, and 3, more than one an~ !ndustry from both shipping and personnel and of state rating of ficial of the receiving state who will O hundred representatives from health ce1vmg states were called and to issue a certificate of immediately notify the local health of organizations, sanitary livestock boards, sent their specific problems. ~•J.<::> :s t:ms. _ _., nPTPm-.- to qualified state health de ficer and/or the individual requesting agriculture, and industry from twenty Weavers and C. Luchterhand survey officers. the survey. Industry in a shipping six odd states met in St. Louis to work the Wisconsin plan for area :su]pe 1w~liin~ ~hn.-,>rr>rv, Strict adherence to state desiring a survey should likewise out a practicable procedure for enabling Delegates were assigned to outlined in the latest edi make the request to the regulatory of receiving states to secure satisfactory task forces whose reports follow. Sti:mdard Methods for the Ex- ficial in his own state. milk from distant producing areas. The Executive Committee "':as reque~a tion of Dairy Products, published To expedite the requesting and re Conference was chairmaned by Mr. develop plans for the mstitutio" of Americai1 Public Health Asso porting process, for the immediate J. L. Rowland, Director, Bureau of permanent conference on \iVhere alternate methods are future. requests and reports can be sent Food and Drugs, Missouri Division of shipments, to be held again by standard methods that direct from one state agency to another Health. on June 4, 5, and 6. 1951, at the intended for interstate shipment state agency with carbon copies of all It was the outgrowth of a series of Statler, St. Louis, l\Io. · examined by plate counts or direct requests and reports being sent to the efforts, dating back to the 1946 Confer Regional Office of the Public Health Regulations .. The 1939 edi:~1on Jmi13ico:scopt'c counts. Samples from each ence of State and Territorial Health the ~· S. Pubhc Health Servi~ M farm be examined not less than Service. The latter shall consider the Officers, to get the Public Health Serv Ordtnance and Code will be u.sed uency prescribed in the 1939 certified list of milk shippers and cir ice to develop a program for certifica the basic regulation, and tha rdinance a.ttd Code. The state cularize all state agencies monthly who tion of interstate milk shippers, and this ance therewith will be measure(! accept the . results from official in turn are urged to advise their local request was repeated in 1949. In De U.S.P.H.S. milk sanitation tfibolia,tor·Ies ·which they have approved health officers and/or indus try. cember, 1949, representatives from sev method; as outlined in the U. S. substantially with Stand Role of the Public Health Service. eral mid-western states met in In Health Service Bulletin, No. and checking closely with The state regulatory authorities should dianapolis to determine whether some "Milk Sanitation Rating." obtained at least twice per year carry the work load involved in the program could be set up to meet this Supervision. The recei .· .. ,.,,....., ... ., samples. The state may accept interstate milk program, with the as situation of inter-state milk shipments. were urged to recognize inspection from officially designated sistance of the U. S. Public Health As a result of the Indianapolis meeting, supervision by full-time local a11'Ct ries that they have similarly Service. The latter shall be prepared a conference of eleven mid-western health department and state ly checked periodically and to extend to state regulatory authorities states was held in Chicago in February tural department personnel. to be satisfactory. and educational institutions such as 1950, where it was decided to appoint vision shall be measured by the state approval of local labora sistance in the training of field repre a committee to investigate the prob ment rating procedure outlined should include an annual visit to sentatives of the state and local gov lems further and to arrange for a na lie Health S erl'ice Reports, nf'l1r~r••r" at which time evaluation ernmental units or of industry, field tional conference on interstate milk No. 1970, "Methods of · quarters, equipment, procedures. and plant personnel, and state survey shipments. This committe requested the tation Ratings of Milk Sheds. and records will be made on officers as the respective state may re Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Certification. Receiving survey forms of the U. S. quire in operating the interstate milk Health Service to invite all the states were urged to accept ratings mad~ Health Service or the equivalent. shipment plan. The Public Health to participate, including the milk by certified rating officials of uniformity, the U.S.P.H.S. Service should also train or assist in industry. U. S. Public Health check the laboratories of the training laboratory personnel of state, At the St. Louis conference, Mr. State Health Department. in the cer local, or industrial laboratories as re J. L. Rowland set forth the objective, should include survey ratings for interstate shipment quested by state authorities. The Pub "The Best Possible Milk Supply for clueing farms, receiving their complaince with lic Health Service should act as a clear All the People". Visual aids were used plants, and the supervising ing house for the receipt and dissemina to depict the machinery necessary to Area ratings shall be made for Requesting and Re tion of information as indicated in the permit the free flow of milk from areas than every two years. If an An individual letter from the Surgeon General, dated of production to those of consumption. source is in a 90 percent states desiring informa December 31, 1946. l\fr. A. 'N. Fuchs was called upon to an individual rating is not a milk supply should make the The P.H.S. should spot check the present "the National problem and its Milk plants or individual sour !i,~S to the state control official in inspection and survey work of enforce background. review of action by the under an area survey and who state who will transmit the ment agencies to determine whether Public Health Service. and possible so areas less than 90 percent rating. to the Regional Office of the milk regulations are being correctly in lutions." ~·fembers of official agencies be surveyed annually. If a Health Service, to the state terpreted and enforced. 196 N ATIOK AL CoNFERENCE oN INTERSTATE l\IrLK 197 It .should furnish state regulatory in plants that are not under th a.genc1es periodically with interpreta department. t~ons and ~·egulations based on ques 2. Establish survey and ce tions subnutted by such agencies and svstem. WASHING STUDIES UNDER PLANT CONDITIONS ?lso that :>tate authorities relay such - 3. Set up an efficient record c. N. STARK, R. F. HOLLAKD, J. WHITE, AND ~I. J. GURDIAN mterpretatwns to local enforcement along with the supervisorv c. agencies and/ or industry. ..J.. Provide a laboratory LaboralorJ• of Bacteriolog3• aud Deparlmcu/ of Dairy [11(/ust r"y, Statement of Industry. Repre program. Comr/1 Uuivcrsity, Itlzaca, X.