European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 Sis Pauku by Lynda w. Spark one Dairy worker pours milk Inlo giant sterilizers for pasteurization and another loads onto the Assembly line onions to be automatically expanded and filled with milk. Stateside Dairy know How flows to Spain  writer Rota Spain the machines sing a Clank thud Whir and churn out Slick packed commissary ready milk Cartons and ice Cream boxes. It ought to be the America it Midwest but it s not. It s a Dairy processing plan on Kola s naval station and in produces american style Dairy products for sailors and government employees in Spain the Navy has a contract with semite International a Dairy in Connecticut 10 reconstitute milk at six naval facilities and turn he milk into various Dairy products. If having Dairy plants that change american made powdered milk into american tasting Dairy products that Are packaged in american made canons sounds like the extreme in exporting americana for the forces overseas re member that not every cow is an Ameri can cow. John Liebrenz a scr rite employee and manager of the Plant at Rota said the Navy s decision to contract for the Dairy processing plants is based on the availability of Dairy products overseas that meet the . Standards for products in the states. There arc two criteria he said. Number one is that the Plant has to be Able to produce a sanitary  he said different countries have Dif Ferent criteria for sanitary conditions at the Dairy not All of which meet . Standards. The second criterion is that health and sanitary practices on farms have to meet  standards. If Host country standards Are below those of the United slates either on the farm or in the Dairy the Navy contracts to produce its own milk Lieberenz said. So the military folks in Spain drink milk and eat ice Cream whose origins can be traced to pastures somewhere in America. Server ii ships powdered milk vegetable ail and packaging materials to Rota. The milk is reconstituted at the Plant and made into Dairy product. Those products Supply people at Rota Zaragoza a Torrejon a and Moron Abas Well As sailors on ships operating in the Vicinity of Spain Lic Bernz said. Besides producing whole milk the Plant produces Low fat milk Buttermilk chocolate milk sour Cream cottage cheese two flavors of sherbet four Fla Vors of Yogurt and three flavors of ice Cream. The Small Plant there Are 15 locally hired employees and Lieb Crnz usually produces 3,000 to 4,000 Gal Lons of product a Day and has the ability of producing about twice that. Production increases dramatically when the arrival of . Fleet ships swells Rota s population by thousands of men. From left milk filled Cartons Are checked for leaks milk and ice Cream ire loaded onto a truck and some of the products of the Plant Are displayed