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Citizens News, February 2, 1977
Page 3
Cattle from U.S. tested for chemical contamination
Agriculture Minister Eugene
Whelan said his department has
begun detaining all cattle im-
ported from Michigan, effective
this week, while they are tested
for contamination by chemicals.
The move follows statements
last week by senior department
officials that cattle were being
tested only on a random basis.
Iensall
by Bertha McGregor
Mr, & Mrs. Sim Roobol, Hen-
sall received a telephone call
Tuesday morning from Holland
informing them of the sudden
death of his brother Cornelius.
Cornelius had visited Canada in
1973 and 1975.
Surviving besides Sim are two
brothers and one sister in
Holland.
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Lavery and
Mr. & Mrs. George Beer return-
ed home from a motor trip
through Florida.
Mr. & Mrs. George Parker in
company with Mr. & Mrs. Wayne
McBride enjoyed a snowmobile
holiday at Port Severn.
Mr. & Mrs. Lorne Archer
returned home after spending a
holiday in Florida.
Mrs. Ed Corbett who has been
a patient in South Huron
Hospital, Exeter returned home
this week.
The South Huron Agricultural
Meeting which was to be held in
the Town Hall, Hensall on Mon-
day evening has been postponed
until Monday, Feb. 7 at 8 p.m.
Queensway Nursing Home
Recent visitors with • the
Queensway Nursing Home are as
follows: with Mrs. Pauline Jef-
frey, her son Edmund, Madge
Oesch and Blanche Bechard.
Mary Neil and Howard Johns
visited Mrs. Mabel Johns;
Chester and Ila Dunn visited
with Vera Lammie and Roy
McDonald.
Mrs. Marion Schenk and
Jeanette Lippert visited Hugo
Schenk and Harold Glanville.
Wilbert Dilling visited his wife
Anna Dilling.
Mrs. Roy McDonald, Stewart
and Jean Triebner visited with
Roy McDonald and Vera Lam-
mie.
Shirley Prouty visited Lynn
Latimer, Alec Barrett, Harold
Glanville, Mary Palmer, Roy
McDonald, Isabelle Sproet, Vera
Lammie and Almeeda Parsons.
Visitors with Cora Alcock were
Isabelle Jeffrey and Brian
Alcock. Mrs. Rosa Harris visited
Bernice Lavery. Betty Smith
visited several residents. Mrs.
Chester Dunn and Mrs. John
Ridley visited Roy McDonald
and Vera Lammie.
Nora Herd and Belle Reid
visited Clara Featherston.
Unit 4 of the U.C.W. Hensall
United Church namely Mrs.
Elizabth Riley, Mrs. Slade, Mrs.
Luther Sr., Mrs. Eric Luther
entertained the residents with
music and bingo.
Rev. Geo. Anderson of Exeter
conducted church service last
week accompanied at the piano
by Louise Mitchell.
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Mr. Whelan said in an inter-
view that several hundred cattle
were involved in the testing
program. He emphasized,
however, that there had been no
indicaton that contamination ex-
isted in any cattle tested in the
last three years.
The contamination incident oc-
curred in 1973 when a chemical
fire retardant was accidentally
mixed with cattle feed. The
chemical was identified as poly-
bromated-biphymal, or PBB.
U.S. agriculture officials said
at the time that 11/2 million
poultry, 30,000 cattle, 1,000 hogs
and 500 sheep were quarantined
on 150 premises.
Lorne Nystrom
(NDP—Yorkton-Melville) asked
Mr. Whelan in the Commons why
the agriculture department had
not moved to test more cattle
when the problem was originally
discovered in 1974.
The agriculture minister
replied that 700 cattle had been
tested in the last three years and
that 38 cattle from Michigan
were tested earlier this week.
"We ,.feel sure we've done
everything humanly possible to
control the problem in Canada,"
he said.
Mr. Nystrom said more than
70,000 cattle had been imported
into Canada from Michigan dur-
ing 1975 and 1976. He said one
third of the population of that
state had been affected in some
way by contamination through
the food chain.
The Saskatchewan MP asked
Mr. Whelan to appoint officials
to monitor food corning into the
country from contaminated en-
vironments.
Mr. Whelan answered that
because the contamination had
occurred three years ago it
would not be feasible to conduct
checks on imported food
products.
He said all affected cattle had
been destroyed by U.S.
agriculture officialq
Officials said last week the
tests would take some time to
conduct and that the chemical is
believed to remain an active in-
gredient for several years.
Mr. Whelan said imports from
Michigan had been dropping
recently because of the current
low prices paid for beef. Im-
porters could not make a signifi-
cant profit under those con-
ditions, he said.
Mr. Whelan said about 80 head
of cattle had entered Canada
from Michigan in the past 10
days.
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