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TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1978
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You’ve just eaten at a restaurant,
ne steak and potatoes tasted fine,
it the banana cream pie seemed a
tie odd.
Two hours later you’re nauseous,
nir stomach cramps and you feel
verish. Maybe you have food
lisoning.
I If so, you’re not alone. In a recent
six-month period in the United
States, 135 outbreaks of foodborne
IJness were reported, states a
alth, education and welfare re-
rt.
The report also says food poison
ing in the United States is grossly
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underreported. In England and
Wales, where food surveillance has
been well developed, 705 outbreaks
of food poisoning were recorded for
the same six-month period. The es
timated number of cases for the
United States proportionated to the
population of England and Wales is
over 15,000, the report said.
A Good Housekeeping article
says that public health authorities
have known that food poisoning is
among the most common illnesses
in the United State. Reported and
unreported cases may run as high as
10 million a year.
Mary Sweeten, a food and nutri-
Centennial’ author
to market new book
he author of “The Centennial
story of Texas A&M University,
Henry Dethloff, has announced
an October release date for his latest
lok, “Americans and Free
jpfj Enterprise.”
■The book is a history of the
American experience with
capitalism.
^T wrote this textbpok as a narra-
history,” the Texas A&M his-
professor explained. “It’s in-
ended for the undergraduate,
man or as a reader. ”
Dethloff traced the history of free
terprise in the United States by
ng examples of how Levi Strauss
tered the blue jean business, how
:orge Eastman started Kodak and
at stimulated the growth of cities
ch as Houston, New York and
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“It shows that our free enterprise
system has been widely successful,”
Dethloff said. “We are both freer
and wealthier than any other people
have ever been. We cannot take
either for granted. We cannot prop
erly understand how we achieved
this status without a knowledge of
economic history. That is the pur
pose of the book. ”
His other works include editing
“Huey P. Long: Southern De
magogue or American Democrat?”
and “Thomas Jefferson and Ameri
can Democracy. His other writings
include “The American People.”
tion specialist with the Texas A&M
University System, says almost
6,000 cases of food poisoning were
reported in Texas in 1975.
She says main types of food
poisoning were caused by four bac
teria — staphylococcus, botulinus,
salmonella and perfringens. Though
rarely fatal, these bacteria can lead
to severe illness, especially in chil
dren and elderly people. Staph is
usually the most prevalent disease.
Botulism can be fatal.
Sweeten says the state sends a
team of inspectors from Austin to
examine institutions, particularly
nursing homes and hospitals
throughtout the state.
Local health inspections are done
by the sanitarians, who are a part of
the Bryan Health Unit. The sanita
rians — two full-time and two part-
time employees — are headed by
A.C. Allen.
Allen says the sanitarians have
numerous duties, including examin
ing water and sewerage supplies,
nursing homes, hospitals, camps
and dairies.
The sanitarians check food-
related establishments once every
six months. Allen says dairies are
checked at least four times every six
months.
The sanitarians can withdraw
operating permits if the food estab
lishment creates an immediate
health hazard, such as continual im
proper preparation of food.
Allen says, however, that
violations so severe that they war
rant closing down the business al
most never happen. If a violation is
found, the sanitarians give the
owner or manager of the place
enough time to correct the problem,
Allen says.
Should the owner refuse to close
his establishment, court action can
be taken. That doesn’t happen be
cause the owner knows it’s cheaper
to correct the problem than go to
court, Allen says.
State officials come in every two
or three months to make a com
bined inspection, Allen says. Nurs
ing homes and hospitals are exam
ined intensively.
The sanitarians use several differ
ent forms in checking food-related
establishments. Each requirement
has to be checked off. Violation of
the same requirement on two suc
cessive inspections calls for permit
suspension, the form states.
A dairy producer inspection form
is used to inspect the Lilly produc
tion plant and the Texas A&M dairy
plant. Some of the requirements on
the form are cleanliness of the milk
ing barn and stable, adequate toilet
and water facilities and insect and
rodent control.
There are also forms for ice cream
plants, pasteurization plants, food
establishments (other than for eat
ing and dining, such as a grocery
store) and for food service estab
lishments.
The sanitarians also have the re
sponsibility for inspecting the
cafeterias on the Texas A&M cam
pus.
Lloyd Smith, assistant director of
food services at Texas A&M, says
the county inspectors examine the
cafeterias sporadically. He says their
own food services supervisors in
spect on a daily basis.
“We try to meet and exceed all
regulations,” Smith says.
He says hot food is kept hot, and
cold food is kept cold, which is one
main safety requirement.
All prospective employees must
obtain a health card after being ex
amined for tuberculosis and ven
ereal disease. Once on the job, em
ployees are inspected daily to see if
they have infectious illnesses such
as colds or sores. If they are ill, they
cannot work until they recover.
Smith says.
Martin about sold out
Wild-and-crazy ticket sales
were the order of the day
Monday as hundreds of Texas
A&M University students
queued up for tickets to the April
10 performance of comedian
Steve Martin.
One veteran worker in the
Memorial Student Center box of
fice said she’d never seen better
first-day sales.
Patient line-waiters, some of
whom had been camped out
since Saturday, waited six hours
or more after sales began to
reach the box office to buy their
tickets. Others were waiting as
long as four hours just to reach
the inside of Rudder Tower
where the box office is housed.
Despite an eight-ticket limit
per buyer, all of the perform
ance’s 1,100 reserved seats were
gone by 9:30 a.m. and more than
a third of the 5,500 general ad
mission tickets had been sold by
11 a.m.
Seven hundred student tickets
remained after Monday's sales.
Sales to students are supposed
to continue this week with tick
ets to the general public going on
sale March 27, but it appeared
doubtful that the performance
will have any seats left by then.
The line from the box office
curled back upon itself as many
as 10 times early Monday, wind
ing out of Rudder Tower into the
fountain area and out towards the
student center.
Campus
Activities
GET STYLING FREEDOM . .
THE VARSITY SHOP
Tuesday
Great Issues, Preston Bolton, “Building
lew Environments,” 12:30 p.m., Rudder
ower 701.
Children’s Easter Egg Hunt, 5 p.m.,
HSC 212.
Wednesday
University Art Exhibits, Canadian
apestries, through March 31, Rudder
'enter Exhibit Hall.
Thursday
Town Hall Contest, “Best Comedian on
lampus,” 12:45 p.m., MSC Fountain.
Aggie Players, “Carnival,” 8 p.m.,
odder Theater, through Saturday.
Wildlife Lecture, "Alaskan Odyssey,” 8
p.m., Rudder Forum.
Saturday
Moses Hall Talent Show, 7:30 p.m..
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