European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday May. 15. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 fasl food firms might have 16 Tell secrets Bill would Force listing of   Washington api fast Rood would have to  customers the sources of i Clr secret faces the makeup of their milkshakes and the season Ings they use under provisions of legislation introduce Din Congress tuesday. With Over 40 million americans a Day roughly one a Fly of the population eating in these restaurants i is critical that we know what we Are gelling said sen. John cd Nice. . Adding that he and his family count themselves among the nation s fail Rood consume cars. Fast food u Here to stay and thai i t Good thing for millions of Busy people chafe said. This Bill does t Tell people what to cat. And it does t Tell restaurants what to serve. It just makes the facts  chafe said his Bill would place the tame ingredient and nutrition Labelling requirements on restaurants that sell packaged foot that already apply to products sold in grocery stores. Most Fasi food business enterprises do not list their ingredients now and several Industry representatives who attended chafe s news conference said they expect their employers will oppose the measure. Bui Mcdonald a the world largest fast food opera Tion is starting an Experiment in new York nut month where individual restaurants will provide Consumers with brochures listing ingredients and nutritional information few All products regularly sold by the hamburger business. Robert key scr a Mcdonald s spokesman said in a Telephone interview he had not seen Chafee s Bill so he could not comment on it directly. But he said Mcdonalds is not opposed to providing customers with ingredient and nutrition information about its products. Chafe said ingredient Labelling would be especially helpful to people who have 10 control sail or cholesterol Aad fat-.-. The measure would apply to or juju motions encompassing 10 or More franchised restaurants that serve pack aged food i would not apply to traditional restaurants. The Bill is endorsed by the american heart association the american College of allergists and other health related organizations. The typical burgers tries and shake is anything but Low fat and Low cholesterol said or. John Lurosa professor of Medicine at George Washington University and chairman elect of the american heart association s nutrition committee. We May have a whole new generation of americans heading for Hearl  la Rosa said americans need to Cut Down on cd Olav Tarot fats and Salt to improve the health of their hearts and they can t do that unless they know the ingredient of the food they . Joseph a. Bellanyi. An allergist said some Ameri cans can t tolerate some ingredients of some fast food products such As Moa sodium glutamate and certain dyes. Our patients should Mil be forced to play russian Roulette not knowing if a big Mac or a whopper will trigger in allergic reaction be Linti said. Radioactive confusion irks italian Consumers Rome a the Long Shadow of the soviet nuclear Cloud has spread confusion and fear among italians Lorn Between government reassurances and prophets of gloom. While government officials fall Mil Lirums Micro Roentgen rads and Pico curies Ordinary italian Are grumbling panic buying staging protest marches and Impromptu radioactivity less. Has there been a Little confusion a Little confusion asked produce Salesman Giovanni Ricci. We Don t know what s going on Here All we do know is that were losing Money he said tuesday at his fruit and vegetable stall n l Rome s main Vittorio Etna Uncle Market. The ban on Leafy vegetables. Imposed May 2 by the italian health ministry specified 14 vegetables. But the order also barred similar produce a stipulation that led to varying interpretations. Frs Lottey said we could t sell Zucchini. Then they Cut off All the Zucchini Flowers. Then we could sell them he said. One Day they look away null the strawberries. The next Day they brought them back.". Although the order was lifted Mon Day night except Tor Northern Italy produce vendors say customers remain afraid. Fears about radioactivity have extended to All kinds of foods even fish. It has become a nationwide debate. Newspapers argue the relative merits of while versus Green asparagus. Some experts lout the iodine found in sea creatures As an antidote to radioactivity. While others say that fish Are just its susceptible to radiation As cows. "1 Don t know what i can buy said a woman shopper at Vittorio Emmanuele As she picked through a Box of potatoes. I Don t know bars really safe.". Wholesale produce prices Are reported to have dropped by As much As so percent As a result with the fruit and vegetable business losing some $3 3 million a Day. Such concerns have left similar Marks on meat and milk sales. The May 2 order also included a ban on serving or Selling fresh milk to expectant mothers or children under 10. The government has assured adults it is perfectly Safe for them to drink fresh milk. Yet milk remains widely shunned with customers feverishly buying up and hoarding stocks of powdered and Long conserving milk. The Levels of radioactivity show there is no danger for adults in consuming fresh milk Aid Franco Merchiorri milk sales director for the Rome Region but unfortunately customers Are overcome by  italian officialdom has added to the confusion. On May 2, barely an hour after a news conference by lop government Energy and civil defense officials who said All was under control and Only Wash ing of produce was needed the health ministry banned Leafy vegetables Alto Gether one of the stiff Cal measures in Europe. For a week after the first signs of fall out appeared various and often conflict ing readings were handed out sparingly in Milli rems  Picoc Uriu. Rads. One reporter was criticised by n nuclear regulatory official As  pied with  government officials subsequently began issuing regular readings if Only for the radioactive substance iodine 131. Conflicts about radioactivity Levels among government agencies went be came Public when one Agency scientist lust week claiming radiation had reached 100 times the base level the claim was denied by the civil defense ministry which cited an error in in  on tuesday local health officials for the Veneto Region reported Levels of iodine 131 in vegetables Hod doubled overnight. But the Central government reported a slight decline in radioactivity for Venlo vegetables during the same period. Civil defense minister Giuseppe. Zamber Citi has conceded that officials were ill prepared for the nuclear As Sault with scientists sometimes resort ing 10 improvisation to measure radioactivity due to poor organization among monitoring Sites. Noting that Italy Only Learned through hard experience that it needed nationwide monitoring for earthquakes he said tues Day night we must do the same for  a poll conducted by la re Publica newspaper shows Many italians arc Disen chanted 52 percent some 30 billion tons of int were used Between 100 million and 1 billion people in the Northern hemisphere would be killed he said. Warner said this scenario reflects current military thinking which slates that once the initial round of weapons is unleashed the exchanges would not Stop until All nuclear weapons were fired or destroyed. The explosion of the entire nuclear Arsenal would release into the atmosphere about 180,000 tons of Black smoke hat would1 Block he Sun s Ray and lower temperatures on Earth Warner said. The re sult would be cold Summers changed rainfall pal terns and drought. The uni cd states and Canada with their traditionally Large stockpiles of food would probably be Able to feed survivors of a nuclear War in the two countries if food was rationed he said. But mass starvation would occur in Africa Southeast Asia and India where storage facilities and food sur pluses arc limited. Warner called the report compiled Over two years one of the most concentrated International scientific  he said drafts were tent to the governments of the United states and the soviet Union in september translations Are being prepared for other govern ments military leaders politicians and policy Mak ers around the world one of the messages it carries is that you Don l need to build bigger bombs when you can kill nearly everybody right now he said