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7

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423

TOTAL HOUSEHOLD INCOME OF THOSE WANTING TO BUY-112+124=236

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575 592.592 586 585.588595.595 .609.609

42

% HIGHER OR LOWER THAN PEACHES

47 43

40

49 50 52 49 49 47 49 47 43 45 46 42 43 43 44 44 44 42 40 39 39 40 41 37

APPENDIX NO. 4

PRESS RELEASE

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 12, 1974)-Representative Patsy T. Mink has learned that the greatest portion of substandard pineapple offered for importation to the U.S. is from Taiwan and Singapore/Malaysia.

According to information made available to the House Subcommittee on Agricultural Labor by the Food and Drug Administration, so much substandard pineapple has been detained coming into this country from Taiwan that the FDA has found it necessary to place special emphasis on inspection of Taiwan pineapple.

Data revealed by the Subcommittee indicates that, of the more than $400,000 worth of pineapple detained in 1973, approximately 71 percent was from Taiwan, and 84 percent of the pineapple detained during the first month of 1974 came from Taiwan.

At the request of Representative Mink, the Subcommittee conducted an investigation in Hawaii early this year. It found that the quality of Hawaiian pineapple is far better than the imported fruit, yet the major producers are phasing out their Hawaii operations and moving to cheap labor havens in the Far East. The State is faced with massive unemployment in the industry as a result. The consumer will be forced to choose among a selection of lower grade foreign canned fruit.

In 1972, the Hawaii State Department of Agriculture published a report entitled "The Impact of Foreign Pineapple Production on the Hawaiian Pineapple Industry," which indicated that approximately 50 percent of the low cost foreign pineapple does not meet the Food and Drug Administration standards. The Hawaiian Congressional delegates requested the FDA to begin an intensive enforcement program. The detentions made over the last two years indicate that this effort has paid off.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE,

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE,
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION,
Rockville, Md., May 7, 1974.

Hon. WILLIAM D. FORD,

Chairman, Subcommittee on Agricultural Labor, Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.

DEAR MR. FORD: This is in further reply to your April 4, 1974, letter concerning the pineapple industry.

We are enclosing, for your information, a copy of the standard of identity, quality, and fill of container established for canned pineapple under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which we administer. Shipments of imported canned pineapple are subject to examination when offered for entry into the United States and are denied entry unless they comply with these standards. We have an active program directed to the prevention of imported substandard canned pineapple from being put on the United States market. We are enclosing a copy of this program for your information.

Import detentions are published monthly in our publication, Commercial Import Detentions. We are enclosing copies of the pages from this publication listing the amount and country of origin of substandard canned pineapple we have detained since 1970 as you requested.

If we can be of further assistance, please let us know.
Sincerely yours,

$27.50

ROBERT C. WETHERELL,

Acting Director, Office of Legislative Services.

Canned pineapple; identity; label statement of optional ingredients. (a) Canned pineapple is the food prepared from one of the following optional forms of units obtained from peeled, cored, mature fruits of the pineapple plant: (21)

(1) Sliced, slices; consisting of whole circular slices cut across the axis of the peeled, cored fruit cylinders.

(2) Half sliced, half slices; consisting of semicircular halves of slices. A unit that is approximately one-half slice is considered to be a half slice.

(3) Broken sliced, broken slices; consisting of arc-shaped portions cut or broken from slices, which portions are not uniform in size or shape.

(4) Tidbits; consisting of sectors cut from slices. Tidbits are reasonably uniform in size and shape; they are predominantly from 516-inch to 2-inch thick and, except for an occasional unit, each sector is not larger than one-sixth of the slice from which cut.

(5) Chunks; consisting of short, thick pieces cut from thick slices or from peeled, cored fruit. Chunks may or may not be symmetrical or uniform in shape and size. Predominantly, the units have a thickness greater than 1⁄2-inch, a width greater than 16-inch, but a longest dimension (along any edge) not greater than 11⁄2 inches.

(6) Cubes, diced; consisting of cube-shaped pieces cut from slices or from peeled, cored fruit. Except for an occasional unit, the longest dimension (along any edge) of each unit is not greater than 16-inch.

(7) Spears, fingers; consisting of long, slender pieces cut parallel to the core axis from peeled cored fruit cylinders. The units are not larger than one-sixth of the cylinder from which they are cut, and they are not less than 21⁄2 inches long.

(8) Crushed; consisting of shreded or finely cut pieces of fruit flesh.

The optional forms of units specified by subparagraphs (1) through (7) of this paragraph are canned with one of the optional packing media specified in paragraph (b) of this section. The optional form of unit specified by subparagraph (8) of this paragraph may be canned with one of the optional packing media specified in paragraph (b) (2) through (6) of this section or with one of the optional sweetening ingredients specified in paragraph (d) of this section. Canned pineapples may be flavored or seasoned with one or more of the optional ingredients specified in paragraph (e) of this section. In the canning of pineapple, dimethylpolysiloxane complying with the requirements of § 121.1099 of this chapter may be employed as a defoaming agent in an amount not greater than 10 parts per million by weight of the finished food. Such food is sealed in containers, and is so processed by heat, either before or after sealing, as to prevent spoilage.

(b) The optional packing media referred to in paragraph (a) of this section

are:

(1) Water.

(2) Pineapple juice.

(3) Clarified juice.

(4) Light sirup.

(5) Heavy sirup.

(6) Extra heavy sirup.

(c) For the purposes of this section:

(1) Pineapple juice conforms to the definition and standard of identity for unsweetened pineapple juice as specified in § 27.54, except that it is not required to be separately sealed in containers and so processed by heat as to prevent spoilage. Clarified juice is the liquid collected from cutting various forms of units from from pineapple fruits, or the liquid expressed wholly or in part from pineapple cores, shells, or from pineapple flesh or parts thereof, which liquid is clarified and may be further refined or concentrated; but if the concentration is such that the packing medium conforms to the density range for one of the sirups hereinafter specified, such concentrated liquid is considered to be light sirup, heavy sirup, or extra heavy sirup, as the case may be.

(2) Except as the concentrated, clarified juice is considered to be a sirup packing medium as above provided, each of the packing media light sirup, heavy sirup, and extra heavy sirup consists of an optional sweetening ingredient as specified in paragraph (d) of this section, dissolved in one or any mixture of two or more of the liquids designated in subparagraphs (1), (2), and (3) of paragraph (b) of this section. The sirup packing media have respective densities as determined by the method specified în “Official Methods of Analysis of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists," Eighth Edition, on page 533, under the heading "Solids-By Means of Spindle-Official," [Ed. note 10th edition 1965, p. 486, sec. 29.009], using the Brix hydrometer 15 days or more after the