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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1981
Local
By BARBIE WOELFEL
Battalion Staff
The label on many meat and
poultry products may give you
more information than you’d ever
want.
It may list the quantity of a meat
USDA demands specific information for consumers
Label tells everything you want to know and more
or poultry in a can of soup or may
supply special instructions for
cooking or food storage.
All foods containing more than
3 percent fresh meat or 2 percent
chicken are subject to inspection
for labeling by the U.S. Depart-
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ment of Agriculture.
Before they are used, all labels
must be submitted for approval to
the USDA’s Food Safety and
Quantity Service label review
staff, said Dr. N.B. Isom of the
USDA Food Safety Inspection
Service in Dallas.
“Inspectors in processing
plants verify that products con
form with approval labels,” Isom
said.
The product name, ingredients,
USDA inspection mark, net quan
tity and special handling instruc
tions must appear on all labels for
products containing the meat and
poultry percentages.
The product name must be de
fined by a USDA standard, but
can also be the product’s common,
usual or descriptive name, Isom
said. However, the name cannot
be false or misleading.
“A product labeled ‘beef and
gravy’ must contain at least 50 per
cent cooked beef, but one labeled
‘gravy and beef must contain a
minimum of 35 percent cooked
beef,” he said.
Product ingredients must be
listed on the label in descending
order according to weight. Preser
vatives, artificial colors and flavor
ings are also included on the label.
“A USDA inspection mark must
appear on all packaged meat or
poultry products that have been
federally inspected and approved
for wholesomeness,” Isom said.
The measurements of the pro
duct’s net quantity mvist be stated
in pounds and/or ounces. The con
tainer’s weight is not included as
part of net weight.
Required conventional weights
may be co-listed with additional
metric equivalents, Isom said.
Special handling instructions
are also required on labels of per
ishable products. For example,
the words “keep refrigerated” or
“keep frozen” are required on
labels for foods requiring refriger
ation or freezing.
“Nutrition labeling is not man
datory for meat and poultry pro
ducts, but some companies dis
play it voluntarily,” Isom said.
If nutritional information is pro
vided on the label, the following
should be included: size of the
serving expressed in common
household terms (i.e. ounces,
cups, slices and pieces); number of
servings per container; number of
calories per container; number of
grams of protein, carbohydrate
and fat per serving; the percen
tage of U.S. recommended daily
allowances of protein, five vita
mins and two minerals per
serving.
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label.
checks the soup can label. The
listing ingredients and percentages of
Staff photo by Daniel Sanil8i|
vitamins and minerals, is required by
U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Pneumonia dangerous,
fifth largest killer
Despite an increase in the use
of antibiotics, pneumonia is the
fifth most dangerous killer in the
nation, the Texas Medical Associa
tion says.
Death from pneumonia follows
heart disease, cancer, stroke and
accidents. Among patients over a
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nearly 50 percent.
Pneumonia, an infection of hu
man lungs’ air sacs, can result from
many different viruses, bacteria,
fungi, toxins and chemicals. The
disease sometimes develops after
cold or flu, and can also be
caused by inhaling noxious gases.
The most common form of
pneumonia, pneumococcal
pneumonia, is fatal, with 500,000
cases each year in the United
States. Of these, 5 to 10 percent
are fatal, according to the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectioni
Diseases.
However, the pneumonia d
toll has been reduced in the
three years, thanks to ne«
pneumonia vaccines. Several ml
lion people have received the vac
cine since its introduction over
two years ago. The vaccine has
been shown to be 80 percent efec
tive in preventing many types 0!
bacterial pneumonia.
It is recommended that vaccina
tions be received before the coll
and flu seasons begin during Sep
tember and October, said Charles
Webb, M. D., chief of the Bureaa
of Epidemiology at the Texas De
partment of Health in Austin.
“The vaccine is recommended
by the federal government for al
high-risk people,’ Webb sail
“This includes the elderly, people
whose spleens have been re
moved (and are therefore more
subject to infection), those will
chronic respiratory or heart dis
eases, diabetes, cirrhosis an!
Hodgkin’s, disease.”
The pneumonia vaccine has
been recognized as an importanl
preventive health measure, espe
cially for the elderly. The federal
government recently made the
vaccine one of a few preventive
health benefits covered by Medi
care, making it more affordable for
older citizens.
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