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the problem doesn’t rest primarily with Interior. The rulings of other 
agencies of Government require that hake or hake-like fish be used. 
You can’t buy hake today at a price anywhere near the projected price 
that was given to us when we first talked about fish protein concen- 
trate at 14 cents a pound. They now can’t make it at 40 cents a pound, 
because of the high cost of hake. 
The firms involved are hoping that something can be done about 
their contracts. They just can’t get the hake at a price that will en- 
able them to break even. What you have to do is get the Food and 
Drug Administration or the Federal Trade Commission to change 
their standards and not require just hake or hake-like fish, because 
it simply isn’t available at an acceptable price. 
Mr. Lennon. I would like to ask unanimous consent to include in 
the record at this point my earlier letter of March 20 of this year 
addressed to the Vice President on this subject matter and I like- 
wise ask unanimous consent to include in the record at this point the 
Vice President’s response to me of April 10, 1969, and also include in 
the record my letter of May 8, 1969, to the President and the White 
House response to me of May 15, 1969. 
(The correspondence follows :) 
MarcwH 20, 1969. 
Hon. Sprro T. AGNEW, 
The Vice President, 
The White House, 
Washington, D.C. 
DEAR MR. VICE PRESIDENT: The Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Con- 
servation of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries conducted 
hearings on Fish Protein Concentrate (FPC) last summer at the request of the 
Bureau of Commercial Fisheries for the need of additional funding to construct 
a research pilot plant to develop new and less expensive processes for producing 
FPC. 
For years, we have been told how FPC can be used to fight hunger and malnu- 
trition throughout the world. At this time, we are in the process of sending 
$900,000 worth of FPC to fight malnutrition in Chile. However, here in the 
United States. FPC cannot effectively be used to combat malnutrition because 
Food and Drug Administration regulations require that FPC be marketed in 
one-pound packages lor less. 
Testimony developed before our Subcommittee revealed that Dr. James L. 
Goddard, the then Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, had 
indicated a willingness to waive the one-pound packaging restriction on FPC 
if the food additive were used in a Government sponsored program to combat 
malnutrition. 
Like you. I am keenly interested in the fight against hunger and malnutrition 
in this country. We now have a plant in New. Bedford, Massachusetts, that can 
produce FPC that will meet the quality standards of the Food and Drug Admin- 
istration. This product could be used here to help alleviate the malnutrition 
we are told exists in our country. 
Several federal agencies would be involved in any developed feeding program 
using FPC as a food additive. It seems. to me that you, as Chairman of the 
National Marine Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development, 
could best coordinate and further such a worthwhile program. 
I will be glad to assist and cooperate with you in this proposed program. 
With kind regards. 
Most sincerely, 
ALTON LENNON. 
