Compliance with food laws required
A hamburger must be a hamburger
By SARAH DALE Kansan Staff Writer
Griff Burger Bar franchises have been given until March 1 to comply with the state's legal definition of hamburger.
By agreement with the Kansas Food and Drug Division (KFDD) and the Kansas Attorney General's office, Griff franchises have stated they will change their hamburger content by March 1.
Sports car club will hold rallye
Attention: there will be a pop quiz this Sunday in the Malls Shopping Center. You will be tested on driving and problem-solving.
It's Pop Quiz II, a Jayhawk Sports Car Club (JSCC) gimmick car rally.
"Pop Quiz II is a puzzle rallye," said Robert Entriken Jr., San Francisco, Calif., senior and rallymaster.
Entriken said a scavenger hunt would be included in the rallye.
"Trophies will be given to the top 20 per cent of the contestants," Entriken said. "Any kind of car can be entered. The only requirement is that the cars have seat belts."
Registration will be at 1 p.m.
Sunday at the Malls Shopping
Center, 23rd and Louisiana
Streets. The entry fee is $2 for
JSCC members, $3 for
non-members.
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Two years ago the food and drug division embargoed one of Griff's franchise operations because additives of soya flour and additional water were found in the hamburgers.
The parent company in Kansas City filed a restraining order against the State. This order was dismissed about a month ago, and Griff's hamburgers must now be pure ground beef.
Evan Wright, KFDD director, said: "Kansas standards demand fresh constituted beef with or without the addition of fat. The total fat content must not exceed 30 per cent. Normal spices may be added but the water protein ratio should be 4 to 1."
"The first I knew of the situation was from the newspapers," Charles Skrecec, Griff's Lawrence manager, said. "In the last two days, I found out we are using 100 per cent beef."
Griff's purchases products from Rigley Meat Distributors in Wichita. Rigley changed to all-meat distribution two months ago.
"Rigley serves the company, not the franchises," James Furlong, general manager of Rigley Meat Distributors, said. "The franchise people determine what is done to their meat after purchase."
Winston Harwood, owner of Harwood's Wholesale Meats of Lawrence, supplier for most Lawrence hamburger establishments, said: "If a substitute is added to the meat it would have to be added in the manufacturing place. There isn't a substitute added to hamburger in this town (Lawrence). It would just be too expensive.
"After hamburgers are patted they could be dipped in a meal, but what would be saved in weight would be lost in cost."
"What we're concerned with is advertising. If the product is offered for sale as a hamburger it must be a hamburger. What an establishment purports their product to be is sometimes something else." Wright said.
Most hamburger establishments in Lawrence could not report the protein-water ratio of thir hamburger. The managers said the fat content was below the 30 per cent Kansas standard.
Those establishments not purchasing from Harwood's are under the franchise specifications of government inspectors.
Harwood said: "We furnish the meat for most hamburger places in town. We send the same quality meat to every (Lawrence) establishment."
Harwood added that his firm does not supply meat to Griff's. "They buy frozen meat under franchise specifications," he said.
Paul Rogers, Burger Chef manager, said: "Hamburgers with substitutes added will shrink or fall apart. To prevent this, water is added which can only be done on grills."
"Our meat averages 20 per cent fat and is subject to irregular state inspection," Harwood said. "We also use bull meat, which is leaner and contains less moisture."
Yesterday the Kansas Senate amended and recommended a bill to establish a state system for meat inspection.
Harwood said water addition is only to prevent burning or sticking; it has nothing to do with meat shrinkage.
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