. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 15. Fig. 3 - Employesof seafood packing plants wash and sanitize cans in vast salvage operation. (All photos FDA) and the unburied bodies of animals and humans, unfit drinking water, unrefrigerated perishable foods, the lack of public eating and sleeping accommodations, together with intermittent spells of rain and hot sun, posed the threat of famine and disease. Clearly, the hurricane had left in its wake a public health problem of the worst order, one that called for the utmost and combined efforts of State, local, and Federal health, law
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 15. Fig. 3 - Employesof seafood packing plants wash and sanitize cans in vast salvage operation. (All photos FDA) and the unburied bodies of animals and humans, unfit drinking water, unrefrigerated perishable foods, the lack of public eating and sleeping accommodations, together with intermittent spells of rain and hot sun, posed the threat of famine and disease. Clearly, the hurricane had left in its wake a public health problem of the worst order, one that called for the utmost and combined efforts of State, local, and Federal health, law enforcement, and civil defense officials, the military, and the ; Seafood Inspection FDA inspectors began the enormous job of checking, "street-by-street, door-to-door," seafood-processing and other food firms to see what foods could be saved and what had to be thrown away. An FDA "reconditioning'^ team "kept watch over the operations of firms seeking to re- condition products potentially fit for distri- bution into commerce. For canned seafood and other canned products, reconditioning consisted of sorting unlabeled cans by code numbers stamped on the can to identify the product, washing the can in detergent, and dipping it in a sanitizing bath. Cans beginning to rust were examined for pinholes and were required to be buffed to remove traces of rust. The reconditioning was a special problem because of the unavoidable exposure of the cans to the weather and the difficulty the firms encountered in finding qualified people to do the salvaging work. . "At the Port of Gulfport (Miss.) some 800 tons of fishmeal and a million one-pound cans of cat food were flooded, and FDA Inspectors maintained surveillance over destruction by burial of all but 100 tons of the fishmeal that was removed to Louisiana for reconditioning under an agreement reached between Missis- sippi and Louisiana State ;. Please note that these images are extra
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