Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daddy Creole Petroleum Corp., for which Papacito Efrén Lubín Prieto, 39, works as a $10-a-day oilfield hand. Creole built for the family a $30,000 five-bedroom house in Maracaibo, also provides free medical care, while advertising contracts with Gerber and Klim give meat and milk. The big problem is telling them apart, though their mother insists that this is no problem at all. "Otto is the lovingest," she says. "Juan José has the shortest fuse. Robinson's the fattest, Mario's the tallest and Fernando is the most easygoing...
...Salmonella* bacillus has no fewer than 800 strains, most of which live in the gastrointestinal tracts of chickens, livestock, domestic pets and human carriers. The illness-producing germs are easily spread. Scientific tests have turned up the astonishing fact that as much as 58% of all meat in some U.S. cities is infected...
Once salmonella bacilli have infected a food, they wait patiently for the opportunity to multiply-and one of the places they multiply best is, unfortunately, in U.S. kitchens. Refrigeration curbs but does not kill them; meat or fowl left standing at room temperature for a few hours becomes an ideal breeding place. Unwashed hands and contaminated utensils can also spread the infection. Only thorough cooking kills the germs...
...A.M.A. warns that such foods as cut-up poultry, eggs, prepared meats, cake mixes and custard-filled bakery products are most likely to be contaminated because they are handled so often and so lightly cooked. In May, after 200 people from Utah were stricken with salmonellosis, food detectives traced the cause to infected frozen eggs used by local bakers. An outbreak that affected 300 people in Washington State last year was also traced to a frozen-egg product used in lemon meringue pies. Modern mass-production methods of food processing sometimes help spread salmonella...
...joint Government-industry exhibit in Vienna, and the Agriculture Department opens a food fair in Frankfurt. Result of all the activity: 15% of the American farmer's harvest now goes to market abroad, compared with 8% of the nation's industrial output; last year U.S. meat exports alone rose 36% . Japan ranks as the biggest customer, followed by Canada and Britain. As West Germany's biggest agricultural supplier, the U.S. ships not only such staples as cotton, tobacco, wheat, canned fruit and poultry-but even 30% of the hops for Germany's beer...