Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 21, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free july Grain workers return to jobs a today strike by Manitoba poo Grain elevator workers ended yester Day when workers agreed to return to the Job pending Federal mediation about 340 assistants and clerks operating 170 elevators through out the province have been working about 10 months without a contract Between their Union and the Farmer owned Grain handling Grain service Union delegates met yesterday to study Federal labor department mediator Henry theirs proposal to end the today old they decided to accept his proposal of an assured series of contract meetings with a mediator to Hammer out a settlement on overtime and work Union announcement of the strike thursday caused considerable concern among there were less than two weeks left in the crop year and any closure of elevators could add to transportation problems that had already backed up last years the effect of the strike on deliveries was minimal As it turned because Les than half of the Pool elevators were closed and a lot of them were already full according to a number of managers the Call for a Union meeting yester Day closed a few but it was still business As usual for Manitoba Pool elevators Genera manager Mur Ray Cormack said in an the open closed mix was apparent in the Winnipeg the Gordon Eleva Tor just beyond the Northwest Corner of the City was open during the two strike Busy loading rail cars for ship ment to Thunder Bay and trucks Des tined for local manager Storey said deliveries from farms would be taken in As soon As space was available probably by but he added that most storage facilities in Manitoba Are plugged like this delivery quotas amounts farm ers Are allowed to deliver on Canadian wheat Board permit books based on acreage Are he we stayed but you Are looking at a Structure with full he the transportation system has not been Able to move enough this year to prevent a huge carryover of the 1978 crop on farms and in Storey Queen visits Africa Queen Elizabeth ii walks with tanzanian president Julius today the Royal party flew to Kilimanjaro Nyerere while Prince Philip and Prince Andrew follow on the North Tanzania to tour a Coffee Plantation the Royal family is on a three Day state visit to Eye Airport in and a British aided bacteria Levels exceed guideline source of contamination hard to pinpoint continued from Page 1 bacteria and the second contained no the third Sample contained an Coli count of exceeding the 100limit in the Federal guidelines by ground beef bought from Eaton on june 18 contained a focal col form count of the june 25 Sam ple contained an Coli count of 460 per exceeding the guidelines by ground beef bought from Eaton for the third round of tests july 10 contained very Low counts of both focal and Coli a ground beef Sample bought at the red River Coop store at Wall Street and Ellice Avenue july 10 contained Low Levels of the june 18 Sample contained a focal col form count of 150 and the june 25 Sample the Coli count for the red River Coop Sample on june 25 was also Over the Federal guidelines by in government officials said it is because of the wide Range of factors leading to contaminated ground beef that regulations have not been in it is hard to pinpoint at what stage the meat became they the officials said prosecution would be difficult because the government would not know whether the animal itself was contaminated or if the meat became contaminated in transport or at the managers of stores surveyed expressed Surprise when informed Sam Ples of their ground beef had been tested and found to contain unacceptable bacteria George meat manager at said he Doest stand for this kind of nonsense and the store has a Winnipeg Laboratory test its meat on a regular basis for bacteria Alan manager of foods for said there could be a whole Range of factors leading to High bacteria no regular tests the government Doest do regular swab tests on the sides or Hinds of said theres no Way we can do them because were not maybe the meat is contaminated when it comes from the packing it gets exposed to so much touching and Michael manager of main said the government inspects his meat All the time and its never been a All of our stuff is number theres not supposed to be anything wrong with Ron manager of the Tom boy said his meat is inspected every two months by the government and Ive never had a bad he said he has never been told the ground beef he Sells contains High Levels of Bate beef aged maybe its because i age the beef too but that the Way my custom ers like said if i get in i guess i wont age it any Simon Iga said the contamination in any meat he Sells must come from the animal because he uses every precaution to keep his store he said he recently sent a Side of beef Back be cause it was dark and while the Coop food merchandising manager refused to comment on re sults of the he did say it is difficult to stay within government guidelines All the wed have to have a lab right Here in order to be 100 per cent sure that everything that came in and out of these doors was within government lob Laws meat manager Lawrence Nystrom said he see How were responsible for High bacteria adding that the meat packing houses could be to Burns Plant manager Nick paly Lyk said that was he said the Plant does everything possible to maintain sanitary eighteen Federal inspectors Are Here every we have sanitation rules and our own lab with two bacteriologist and two chemists who Check the meat for its possible the meat gets contaminated in added we have no control Over it once it leaves this paly Lyk said the company Aims at nil Levels of focal col forms and Coli the Only qualified spokesman at Canada the other major wholesale supplier of meat products in could not be reached for while Burns May aim for Zero bacteria the government expects and accepts bacteria counts of How healthy is your hamburger71 said Lloyd the laboratories chief for the Federal health departments Manitoba commenting on results of the he said the Levels Arent a Xorbie but they still be there in such High he said the worst results can be a reflection of poor management and poor reflect on sanitation Smith said that while a certain amount of Coli is necessary in the lower intestine of the presence of it in meat can reflect on the sanitation of he is the govern ments prime and ground beef cooked he will not eliminate All harmful Julius chief food inspector for the City of said the City has no regulations regarding bacteria counts in ground beef because cooking destroys Krisko said the City follows Federal and if its nine inspectors find unsanitary conditions on their monthly visits to retail grocery stores they Issue work orders demand ing conditions be cleaned if the stores dont comply with the work we close the place and that even better than prosecution be cause per cent comply with the work results of bacteria tests on 30 ground beef samples the following tables show the results of tests on 30 samples of ground beef purchased from 10 Winnipeg stores by the free press no Federal guidelines exist for focal shown in the first column of each but government officials say High Levels indicate the presence of other government standards allow for a 100count Tor Coli shown in the Middle column of the june 25 and july 10 the third column shows fat Content for each Sample of ground beef the Federal food and drug act allows for fat Content of no More than 30 per cent for regular ground beef and 23 per cent for medium ground Coli a potential health Hazard Coli is a common bacteria found in the lower intestinal tract of All Mam while certain Levels Are accept the bacteria can cause cramps and other flu like symptoms if digested in excessive Coli is called an indicator organism by microbiologists because its presence suggests the presence of other organisms which could seriously harm a persons High Levels of the bacteria in ground beef could be caused by varying fac ranging from poor handling and storage to unsanitary contamination from the carcass of the or the germs of people handling the the presence of High Levels of Coli could be serious to ones health because the bacteria grows in conditions known to pathogens disease pro during while lab tests cannot detect direct evidence of pathogenic bacteria in Coli people who eat meat with these organisms present could suffer from Salmonella Mary a dietician at the health sciences Centre in says that while healthy people May recover from Salmonella those with a lower resistance to such As the elderly and can die from the government and private labs follow what is called the Man determinant procedure to establish the number of Coli in Man or most probable number of bacteria is sensitive to Many types of but the test for Coli is done something like this a certain number of Grams of meat Are put into a Buffer water with con trolled pm quantities of the blend Are taken out and put into test tubes containing a Media of Vari Ous inhibitors which prohibit the growth of other so the lab technician can be selective in allowing the growth of bacteria dilutions Are made and the lab technician then proceeds to grow Coli in a water Bath incubator set at degrees the medium incl Bates for a period of 48 hours after which time the lab technician counts the bacteria june Man Park Osborne the red River Coop a Ellice family Park Tom Sargent Bannerman main main june Man fat Park 4 Osome the red River a Ellice family Park Tom Sargent Bannerman main main july Man Tat Park a Osome the red River a family 11 Tumoe Park Tom Sargent Bannerman main main 50 wired Homes May tune in Bank Teller continued from Page 1 companies could offer through the sys including Remote monitored Bur Glar Remote Hydro and Gas meter electronic elec tronic yellow Library Stock income tax electronic Cable television and pay Many of these services will be offered part of a system known As video videotex places pages of information stored in the computer Banks of information suppliers onto the television said one Page fills the you might consult today Ida network for medical a history airline and bus your favorite comic your morning smile or the futures Market a similar system run by the British Post office has nearly pages of information other systems operate in France and West Gordon its assistant general manager of said not All of the 20 or More companies which will participate in the Experiment have ironed out the details for their he said its is acting As a catalyst in setting up the Experiment and helping the services to two types of videotex services will be tested in the 50 Homes they Are a system Deve loped by the Federal and a system developed by inter Iscom systems a private inter Iscom will also Supply most of the equipment and computer program Ming involved in the its end of the Mccaffrey said packaging the ser vices could make it economical to extend services to the currently the sparsely distributed population in Rural and Northern Mani like something from Orwell 1984 in very much but my its something not from this time sounds like something from George big brother connotations to the Jorisen like nine other residents in the South head Ingley target area for an Experiment in advanced Home telecommunications services surveyed yesterday by the free said she would agree to be part of the the Manitoba Telephone using the lure of Long awaited Cable television will ask 100 Hea Dingley homeowners to participate in the among other it will provide them with electronic alarm systems and deep freeze Moni the Experiment involves a million investment by its and several million More by the private residents said they would willingly particularly for the fire and burglar alarm Protection and Long sought Cable television Elbers of Raden drive said burglar and fire plus Monitor ing of things like deep Are needed but she had doubts about other proposed Peter Langes of Kemper Crescent was also concerned with the potential depersonalization of the we used to be worried that some thing like this would remove the per Sonal touch from but in today supermarkets no one talks to anybody Langes wed be very its like taking part in the the futuristic aspects of the system also struck Ken ten years ago we landed a Man on the maybe this is a Way of the possibilities speak for them it seems to be a really Good it will be interesting to see How it turns he Dee Dee Chomyk said the fire alarm system would be but its a Little late for our House Burnt a few years Wendell and Jean Peterson of Roblin Boulevard said they too would Defini Tely try the Long Range Cost May be Good or it May Herb Wilks of Kemper Crescent said the system would help Home operated but the average Home May not use All potential Toba makes the provision of even single party Telephone service very expend by integrating a Large number of services Over one the provision of Standard Telephone service can prob ably be made Backhouse said the same services could be expanded to Rural Southern Manitoba in 1982 or 1983 depending on the results of a new technology trial being carried out in by the Federal government and the Canadian telecommunication carriers that Experiment with Fibre optic technology could see an end to Rural party while most services in the heading Ley Experiment have been its has not As yet found a Cable Tele vision the area has no Cable service be cause its and Winnipeg Cable opera tors have yet to agree about the use of Home Cable drops from its poles to individual Homes which Are owned by the Cable ;