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University Daily Kansan, February 29, 1984
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State would label 'dairy' food
By United Press International
TOPEKA — State agriculture officials said yesterday that the marketplace for dairy products had been besieged by artificial dairy foods and that Kansas consumers should be told the difference between the two.
Supporting a bill that would require manufacturers and distributors of artificial dairy products to label clearly the nature of the food, state Agriculture Secretary Harland Pridgle said the surge of artificial dairy products into the marketplace required some protection for confused shopers.
"The marketplace has changed dramatically," Priddle said. "Nearly one-third of the total market for dairy products was been replaced by filled dairy products."
The House Agriculture and Livestock Committee is considering the bill, which Priddle said was intended to replace the 1672 Kansas Filled Dairy Farm in May last year by the Kansas Supreme Court. The act prohibited the sale of dairy
products blended with non-dairy ingredients, or filled dairy products.
The bill would require artificial dairy products to be labeled as such in the upper 30 percent of the front display panel of a package or container of the product. The labeling could not be less than one-half the size of the product name or one-quarter inch, whichever is larger.
Additionally, every artificial dairy product would have to have a statement on the front display panel listing the main differences between it and the dairy product it resembles. A nutritious dairy product has been shown showing the quantitative nutritional differences between it and the real dairy product.
Exceptions would be provided for certain dietary products, chocolate-flavored items and artificial dairy products used in individual servings by a restaurant. Such products could include fruit snacks and margarine-type products.
State Rep. Bill Fuller, R-Miltonvale and committee chairman, said the bill would
artificial dairy products labeling act. Don Jacka, assistant agriculture secretary, said it was a good idea for the state to label artificial dairy products so consumers knew what they were buying.
"There is a new frontier of products coming into the state," he said. "We have products coming into the state that previously were not."
Jim Moore, Kansas division manager for Associated Milk Products, supported the bill, saying Kansas consumers often are confused about whether the product they find in the store is real dairy products. He suggested the committee go even further by requiring real dairy products to be labeled.
The committee also is considering a clean-up bill to repeal the Failed Dairy Products Act. The act was found unconstitutional after General Foods Inc. filed a lawsuit challenging the state's right to keep some of its products, including frozen whipped toppings, off grocery shelves.
The committee is to continue hearings today.
Some KU students who are spending spring break near some unfortunate undead in the sand, digging for seahorses or beach sandcrabbles.
Sand tempts search at break
By STEPHANIE HEARN Staff Reportor
Staff Reporter
The only water that researchers Rolfe Mandel and Alan Simmons will see will be the water in their canteens.
Mandel, KU coordinator of environmental research, and Simmons, director of the KU office of archaeological research and an assistant professor of anthropology, will spend their vacations in the western desert region of Egypt. Simmons and Mandel are going to Kharga, an oasis in the western desert, to look for evidence of prehistoric environments.
Two KU researchers will also be digging through the sand during spring break, but they will not be looking for sand.
By looking at sediments and finding ancient pollen, which they will bring back from their trip. Mandel said that he would begin to learn how prehistoric people of that region interacted with their environment.
More than a year ago, Mandel studied maps of Khlarga to find where water had been 12,000 to 20,000 years ago.
By determining previous locations of water, Mandel said, he could discover where life used to be.
Using this information, Simmons and two KU students spent a month in Egypt in 1982 finding the dry lakebeds, where they found a freshwater stream.
Simmons said, "The area makes western Kansas look like the Garden of Eden."
Because of illness: Mandel did not go to Egypt in 1982.
Mannet said that although he had studied dry environments in the U.S. central plains, the trip to Egypt would give him his first chance to apply what he had learned on the central plains to the more acid environment in Egypt.
Mandel said that if the pollen were preserved in the sediments, he would also be able to determine what type of vegetation was present during that period.
This trip, like the first trip, will be financed by a $25,000 grant from an Egyptian branch of the Amoco Oil Company.
Mandel and Simmons selected a few of the most promising sites from Simmons' 1982 survey to study in more detail when they return next week.
Simmons said, "If we find sites with a lot of potential, we'll probably go back again."
After the trip next week, Simmons and Mandel will write a report of their findings that will be published through the university's online repository.
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