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...CANNING...
Last summer Vy began buying or starting private enterprises for the army. He wound up with five: the Bank of Industry and Commerce (BIC); Vicco, a builder of bridges and roads; Vi-navatco, a transportation firm; Icico, an insurer; and Foproco, a food processing and canning company. Vy detached from war duties 155 army officers who had business experience to operate these enterprises...
...food counters are loaded with smoked, canned and fresh goods. Food canning is a highly developed-Chinese art; and apples, peaches, cherries and walnuts sparkle in brightly colored cans. The ducks are piled high. Chicken, smoked and pressed, sells at 70? for 1.1 Ibs. There are sausages, kidneys and spareribs for sale. The cookie counter bulges with goodies as does the fresh fruit display of apples, tangerines, pear apples, pineapples and oranges-all in the middle of winter...
...change is clear these days on the 214-acre Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis, reports TIME'S Christopher Cory. Three weeks hence, the annual livestock and home-canning competitions begin. But last week 150 inner-city kids assembled there for the final week of a day camp called The Happening. College Freshman Janet Moore led a group of campers along a back alley just outside the fairgrounds; the black handle of a shiv could be seen bristling from the pocket of one 13-year-old. Passing rusting barrels and abandoned refrigerators, the kids picked up beer cans and trash...
...shelled spores of the Clostridium botulinum bacteria, which lie dormant in !he soil but flourish in the airless environment of canned foods when they are improperly processed. Heating at 212° for five hours or at 240° for 30 minutes is sufficient to kill the bacteria during the canning process. But occasionally food is unsufficiently heated, particularly during home canning. (The FDA investigation seemed to point to insufficient heating procedures, but Bon Vivant has not yet given an explanation.) Since 1960, there have been 78 outbreaks of botulism in the U.S. and 182 individual cases, of which 42 proved...