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A8dVI department head finds method
of identifying origins of foreign honey
Photo by Mark Beal
Dr. Vaughn Bryant demonstrates separation of pollen from honey.
By Ty Walters
Reporter
A pollen expert at Texas A&M
is helping to preserve the jobs
and money of U.S. honey pro
ducers by identifying foreign-
made honey through a method
he developed.
By studying pollen grains
found in honey, Dr. Vaughn M.
Bryant, professor and head of the
anthropology department, has
devised a method of tracing the
origin of honey. He separates the
pollen, examines it under a mi
croscope, and then records the
type of plant from which the
grains originated. He then can
tell from what areas of the coun
try the plant can be found.
The 1985 Farm Bill created the
Honey Support Program, a plan
designed to provide loans for
farmers and higher market prices
for their honey. The program re
quires the produce to be do
mestic, but the Department of
Agriculture suspects some farm
ers buy imported honey at a
lower price, and then claim it to
be their own in order to receive
the higher price offered by the
government buyback program,
Bryant said.
By sending random samples to
A&M, the USDA is able to spot
the foreign honey.
Bryant, who has written a book
and several journal articles on the
subject of pollen, compares his
Findings with the information
sent by the USDA and comments
on whether the honey could pos
sibly be from the United States.
Compared to the amount of
money that could be lost on im
ported honey, the $50 fee is rela
tively low, he said, and the money
is used to pay lab costs and
materials.
Bryant said most of the sam
ples are legitimate.
The government wants pro
ducers to know about this pro
gram to deter future illegal im
ports, he added.
Before the support program
began, China and Mexico were
the leading importers of honey
into the United States. Though
President Ronald Reagan re
cently extended the program
through 1990, the buyback rates
are expected to go down as much
as 5 percent each year, according
to the American Bee Journal.
Some farmers think the lower
ing rates might pressure others to
buy the imported product fo mix
in with their own honey. Bryant’s
testing will serve to keep anyone
from Using foreign honey as his
own.
Pollen researchers have be
come increasingly important to
the oil industry because of their
ability to use pollen in core sam
ples to find productive drilling
areas. But the field still is rela
tively small and unknown.
“There are only a few of us,”
Bryant said.
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jerats have chosen Atlanta to host the
party’s 1988 national convention,
[sources said Monday.
Democratic Party Chairman Paul
iKirk is expected to announce his se
lection of the Georgia capital today,
after talking privately with the site-
selection committee that gathered
here Monday night.
Atlanta triumphed over Houston,
the other Southern city considered
the frontrunner among the five cit
ies remaining in the year-long selec
tion process, said the sources, who
spoke on the condition they not be
identified.
Previously, Kirk has given no pub
lic hint of his preference among the
five cities still officially in the run
ning: Atlanta, Houston, Kansas City,
Mo., New York and Washington.
But Democratic officials frequently
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CROSBYTON (AP) — The unex
plained disappearance of a 4-month-
ald girl from a hospital is under in
vestigation by sheriffs officials and
the FBI, authorities said Monday.
Lynsae Lysette Quintero was last
seen at the Crosbyton Clinic Hospi
tal early in the morning of Jan. 31,
>osby County Sheriff Red Riley
said. The baby had been in the hos
pital since Jan. 26. he said.
Riley said the investigation is at a
standstill.
“This whole case has been strange
trom the beginning,” Riley said.
”0ur small town doesn’t know what
to think about this. I’m getting frus
trated because no two people have
given us the same story. Everywhere
' we turn, we just run into another
dead end.”
Riley said the baby’s 18-year-old
mother, Carmel Julie Quintero, was
sleeping in the infant’s room when
the incident occurred, but added
that the baby was being treated in a
noisy oxygen tent. Someone possibly
could have taken the child without
awakening the mother, he said.
“I can hardly eat or sleep,” the
mother said. “Food just won’t stay in
my stomach. Now, I’m just waiting
for someone to bring me good
news.”
At least four FBI agents have
been working on the case, Riley said.
Officials have talked with numer
ous friends of the family who had
visited the baby, and the mother sub
mitted a list of names to officials, the
sheriff said.
FBI officials said they could not
comment on the investigation.
“At this particular time, we are
not able to release anything,” FBI
agent Rick Harris said. “We’re con
cerned about the child’s safety and
so we cannot say anything right
now.”
A polygraph test was adminis
tered to the mother by FBI agents,
Riley said. Hospital officials also
have been questioned, he said.
“We’re making a lot of people
mad because they think we’re ha
rassing them,” Riley said.
Hospital officials declined com
ment.
“You will not find any employee
here who will speak to you,” said Su-
zette Luker, an employee at the hos
pital.
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bolster the party’s sagging strength
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gion.
Word of Kirk’s choice spread late
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Democratic party officials appar
ently were troubled more by Hous
ton’s unfinished convention center
than by the shortage of seating in the
Atlanta hall. Labor unions, always
important in party decisions, also
were said to be more comfortable
with Atlanta’s relations with its em
ployees than with Houston's situa
tion.
The site selection committee was
wined and dined in every city by lo
cal business and political figures
lured by the promise of millions of
dollars in publicity and convention
business.
The politicking continued until
the final days. Houston sent barbe
cue and apple pie to the Democratic
National Committee last week, while
Georgians trucked in shrimp for a
festive feeding.
New Orleans dropped out of the
running when New Orleans Mayor
Sidney Barthelemy called Kirk last
week to withdraw the city’s bid for
the convention, national party
spokesman Terry Michael said.
Although they are front-runners,
Houston and Atlanta both suffer lo
gistical and political drawbacks.
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