European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse By Sonja Heinze q. I understand that the poultry companies in the United states inject Chicken and Turkey with oestrogen in order to promote larger areas of breast meat. Is this Correct in a a breast cancer patient and am receiving daily medication to inhibit the cancer cells from taking in oestrogen which nourishes them therefore eating poultry that has been injected is like eating Poison for me and Many other women. The incidence of breast cancer is now one in every nine women a . Duval Apo new York a this Rumor is persistent but be assured that oestrogen which is a hormone is not being injected into poultry. The director of science and technology at the National broiler Council and the department of agriculture have stated emphatically that commercial broiler Fryer chickens Are not fed or administered hormones in any Way. Such a practice is strictly illegal. Only one hormone has been approved by the food and drug administration for use on poultry and its use is restricted to cockerel for the purpose of producing Capone. Q. First you read not to store meat and poultry in the fridge in its original wrapper then you read the opposite. Which is it a Loretta Tyndall Detroit Mich. A. I be always thrown meat into the Freezer without re wrapping it even though As you say we be been told not to. It did no to make any me not to. I think someone just wanted americans to use up More expensive wrapping. Now the University of California Berkeley s wellness letter has this to say on the subject Quot its of to refrigerate meat or poultry in store wrapping. Actually by not re wrapping it you May reduce the health risks since every time you handle raw meat you increase the Chance of bacterial contamination. For Long term freezing add a layer of heavy foil Freezer wrap or plastic q. In Man Amateur Coin collector and my question is Are plastic Medicine bottles of to save coins in or do they have harmful chemicals a Mary Reading action Lin few benefits for Osl employees it what is being done to convert overseas limited Osl hire civil service employees to career conditional or career employees there Are hundreds and perhaps thousands of employees in the Osl category working in Europe. We do not receive Many of the benefits received by other appropriated fund is employees who Are Quot in the system Quot we also Are Ripe to be selected As the first to go in a reduction in Force if. We have no rehire or priority placement rights in the Continental United states conus if we get Rife and cannot be placed in another position in Europe. There once was an initiative to convert oils but it seems to have died. My sen icing co civilian personnel office has not heard anything about it in Over six months. Recently Dod department of defense converted 8,000 Naf non appropriated fund employees to the civil service system giving them credit for years of service spent in Naf. Some of these employees like the oils were hired overseas. We Are hard working Loyal employees and deserve the same consideration. Besides the above in your action line i would like to see a comprehensive article in the stars and stripes on oils. How Many of us Are there Why has the Side everyone else to help win the cold War and make desert shield desert storm a Success. 1 think we deserve belter than what we Are getting we seem to be a forgotten lot. Barry l. Borgiet Kaiserslautern Germany be James m. Biggs personnel staffing specialist civilian personnel division he Usa eur replies the writer asked what was being done to convert overseas limited Osl employees to career status. The writer also wanted to see a comprehensive article on oils. In response to the first question we Are pleased to inform the writer that the request for an executive order to no competitively convert employees serving under overseas limited Osl appointments to status appointments has been drafted and is being staffed at Headquarters department of the army. We expect it to be forwarded to the office of personnel management pm shortly. Before it will be presented to the president for signature however it must be endorsed by the office of management and budget also. In response to the writer s request for More information on oils we offer the following pm authorized Federal agencies to make Osl appointments in the competitive service to . Citizens recruited overseas. The Osl authority is an exception to the Normal requirements for Competition in filling jobs and May Only be used if there is no appropriate competitive Register of eligible for the locality where the vacancy exists. Because Osl appointments Are made under an exception to pm s competitive procedures the status of these employees is not the same As that of employees hired under Opma a a. Everything a Fine As Long As you done to plan on eating. Either the coins or the Medicine bottles. O. What do you know about the eating of rat meat a Peggy Hybben Weston Conn. A. Well i did t know anything until you asked me the question but Here goes according to Calvin Schwabe in unmentionable cuisine Quot in West Africa rats Are a major item of diet. The giant rat the Cane rat the common House mouse and All other species of rats and mice Are All eaten. According to a United nations report rats now comprise Over 50 percent of the locally produced meat eaten in some parts of Ghana. Between december 1968 and june 1970, 258,206 pounds of Cane rat meat alone were sold in one Market in Accra. In Ghana the meat is Fried then stewed with tomatoes and hot peppers. Patrick Coyle notes in the encyclopedia of food that thai Farmers relish certain species of Rice rat which can be purchased in local markets and whose Price compares favourably with that of pork and Chicken. The taste according to some is better than Chicken. Coyle reports that Quot rats have been regular fare for centuries in China. Marco Polo was the first Westerner to comment on this. When he visited the hang How Market in the 13th Century he noted rat meat Selling under the name a household Deer in modern Canton the rat carcass is gutted heavily salted then Sun dried in the open according to larousse Gastro Domique it used to be the custom in the Gironde which is a wine producing area in France to eat the alcoholic rats that inhabit the wine cellars the workmen would prepare a dish called entre Cote a la bordelaise which consisted of grilled rats that had first been skinned eviscerated and brushed with a thick sauce of Olive Oil and crushed shallots. A one Friend tells me i should not put bread in the refrigerator. Another says not to put it in the Freezer. Both of them say either Way reduces the nutrition of the bread. I used to keep it in a bread Box but since they stopped putting preservatives in bread it gets moldy so fast. How do you keep it from molding a Sylvia Depinna Portland Ore. A. Putting bread in the refrigerator or Freezer will not change or damage the bread s nutritional Content. Refrigeration however tends to hasten the drying and staling of the bread and although it also delays molding eventually bread will Mold in the fridge. However if you freeze the bread it will not Mold nor dry out if its properly wrapped. Have a question for Sonja Heinze write to her in care of this newspaper. Competitive procedures. Osl authority was widely used in Usa eur until 1987, at that time however pm authorized the establishment of the Atlantic overseas area delegated examining unit Deu for maintaining competitive registers in Europe. Since the Deu was established in october 1987, no Osl appointments have been made above Grade gs-6. Currently there about 1,700 employees on Osl appointments who Are serviced by Usa eur civilian personnel offices co. Osl employees can acquire competitive status through selection from a Register of eligible issued by pm or the Deu. The writer May want to Contact the civilian recruitment Center Job information Center in Leiden to obtain More specific information about competitive employment and the Deu the Center is open from 8 . To 4 p.m., monday through Friday Telephone numbers Are ets 370-6449 or civilian 06224-76091. To write us readers action line is the readers Quot court of last resort Quot striving to answer some of the questions about life overseas in a military environment or questions about policies and guidelines when other avenues for answers Are not readily available. If you have a question and Don t know where to Tom for the answer write to readers action line co the stars and stripes Apo 09211-4211. All letters must be signed and preference will be Given to those seeking information of general interest to our readers. Page 16 the stars and stripes Friday july 19, 1991
