Word: hake
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Odorless & Tasteless. The upshot of five years of research was a series of compromises. According to the latest FDA ruling, the only fish that may be used are hake* and related species. They must be iced as soon as caught, like all other fish for human consumption. In processing, though the whole fish is used, some bone is removed to keep the fluoride content below 100 parts per-million. The final flour of "FPC" parts (fish protein concentrate) must contain 75% protein and practically...
...President overlooked one money-saving -- and helpful -- proposal, aid through fish flour. Fish flour, recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration, is a colorless, tasteless and odorless protein concentrate made very cheaply from the "trash" fish, hake. Since an estimated two billion persons in underdeveloped countries suffer from lack of protein, Johnson could reasonably have suggested sending fish flour instead of money as foreign...
...strongly object to your statement, in "Raising Hake" [March 18], that on the West Coast saumon blanc goes by the "unappetizing" name of hake. It happens that in some American circles a hake is known as a very tasty dish...
...SUSAN HAKE Woodside...
...human consumption, because the fish are not cleaned before processing; FPC enthusiasts reply by pointing out that the FDA has not banned chocolate-coated bumblebees and grasshoppers, though they also are consumed without cleaning. Last summer the National Academy of Sciences concluded that FPC made from hake is safe, and this month Interior Secretary Stewart Udall filed a petition requesting FDA approval. Next month the Senate will begin subcommittee hearings on a bill sponsored by Washington's Senator Warren Magnuson and Alaska's Senator E. L. Bartlett that calls for spending $5 million to build five plants...