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Texas A&M professor researches origins of ‘suspicious’ honey

agriculture

Camp begins, questions lingerAmid inquiry, Manziel, A&M

suit up for first practice

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In front of a packed room of media representa-tives, Texas A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin on Monday fielded questions before the first

football practice of the year, but Johnny Man-ziel’s off-the-field behavior once again trumped pre-season preparations.

Sumlin faced few football-related questions entering fall practices. The focus was instead on accusations that came to light Sunday alleging that Johnny Manziel took monetary compensa-tion for signing memorabilia.

Sumlin was asked if he was annoyed by so much attention to off-the-field issues on the first day of practice.

“What do you think?” Sumlin said. “You could answer that. It’s the first day of practice and for the first time in my six years of being a head coach, nobody’s asking me about the new guys or the fact that we signed 31 players and all of them are eligible. That probably annoys me more than anything else.”

The ESPN report surfaced Sunday and claimed Manziel signed more than 1,000 items in return for a five-figure sum, though sources say they did not see an exchange of money.

On Monday, Dan Wolken of USA Today re-ported the same law firm that helped keep Cam Newton eligible in 2010 at Auburn has been hired by A&M to do the same for Manziel.

If the accusations of Manziel taking money in exchange for signed memorabilia are proven true, he could be ruled ineligible by the NCAA or suspended by the team.

Sumlin said he learned of the accusations in the 24 hours preceding the conference and he would not comment until the University and the NCAA provide him with facts.

“That’s a situation that, for me as a coach, that’s happened in a 24-hour period and our University is doing its due diligence to find out the facts,” Sumlin said.

Texas A&M sports information director Alan

footballA&M announces Polo Manukainiu’s funeral arrangements Monday marked one week since Texas A&M redshirt freshman defensive lineman Polo Manukainiu was killed in a rollover car accident in New Mexico.

Texas A&M sports information director Alan Cannon announced Monday that the team would attend a Saturday funeral in Dallas for Manukainiu. The school will also honor Manukainiu at the Sept. 3 Silver Taps. Defensive coordinator Mark Snyder said

no decision has been made on how the team will honor Manukainiu during the season. A Facebook group of Texas A&M students and fans with more than 520 members has started a campaign to honor Manukainiu for the Aug. 31 football opening game against Rice with T-shirts.

Honey consumers who adore the food for its sweet taste, thick tex-

ture and natural health benefits may be surprised when they discover that their favorite brand may not adhere to what the label claims, according to one Texas A&M professor.

Vaughn Bryant, professor of anthro-pology and one of the few experts in the world in melissopalynology — the study of pollen and honey — has devoted more than thirty years to honey research.

A customs reauthorization bill pro-posed by the U.S. Senate addressed the longstanding issue of honey fraud. If ap-proved, the bill would enforce more reg-ulations for honey identification.

“The problem is that when we go to the store and pick up a bottle and it says clover, wildflower or buckwheat — how do you know what you’re buying?” Bry-ant said.

In order to determine the origin of honey, pollen must be present. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not require pollen to be present in honey, therefore the laws make it impossible to tell where some honey originated and

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whether they are of a higher quality and worthy of higher prices.

“Large importing companies take all the pollen out of honey because they claim it makes the honey clearer and prevents crystallization, therefore

making it easier to sell,” Bryant said. “However, by removing the pollen, you also remove clues needed to verify

A bill proposed by the U.S. Senate could enforce more regulations for honey identification. A&M professor Vaughn Bryant said he is hopeful for the future of the honey industry if the bill passes.

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Professor develops egg sanitization machineagriculture

An egg-sanitizing machine with the potential to provide the poultry in-

dustry with an increase in viable chicks has been invented by A&M researcher Craig Coufal, and is undergoing the final trials before it enters commercial markets.

Coufal, assistant professor and exten-sion specialist of poultry science, said ev-ery egg laid by a chicken has bacteria on the shell. The natural defenses of the egg should keep bacteria from invading. Bac-teria that does reach the interior of the egg can cause rotting, an aborted embryo or a

deformed chick. “Ninety-nine percent of the time the

natural barriers work,” Coufal said. “But one percent of eggs become rotten or do not hatch because the bacteria invade them.”

Most of the modern poultry industry does not engage in any egg sanitation methods be-cause of the cost of and toxicity of the chemi-

cals used. Coufal said even though relying on natural defenses works 99 percent of

the time, one percent can add up on a large commercial scale.

“But when you are talking about mil-lions of eggs — one percent is a lot.” Coufal said. “If we can reduce it by half, that would be a lot.”

Coufal’s research is in part motivated to increase the number of viable eggs, but he said the main research purpose is to keep the hatchery environment as sanitized as possible.

“I kind of think the hatchery is like the hospital. There are all these chicks being

Nancy YuezhangSpecial to The Battalion

See Sanitization on page 2

Craig Coufal

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It’s the first day of practice and for the

first time in my six years of being a head coach, nobody’s asking me about the new guys or the fact that we signed 31 players and all of them are eligible. That probably annoys me more than anything else.”

— Kevin Sumlin,

Texas A&M head football coach

Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel was all smiles, joking with coaches and teammates, as the team returned to the football fields Monday amid accusations that Manziel took money in exchange for signing memorabilia in January.

See Manziel on page 3

Sumlin suspends Ennis; status of Raven, Everett still in questionSumlin addressed the status of three Texas A&M players who had run-ins with the law during the offseason. Starting defensive lineman Kirby Ennis will be suspended for the Rice game after being arrested in February by College Station police for disorderly conduct and display of a firearm according to Brazos Valley jail records. The status of juniors Floyd Raven Jr. and Deshazor Everett is still in question according to Sumlin, who said the school is “still gathering information.” The school and team will continue to investigate what happened in Raven’s and Everett’s arrests and determine a decision from there. Everett and Raven turned themselves in to Brazos County authorities on July 2 following an April assault case in which both players were charged with two counts of assault causing bodily injury and criminal mischief.

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where the honey was pro-duced and what nectar sources are dominant. This means that with no traces of pollen, honey sellers can take cheap honey and claim it’s a type that sells for a premium price.”

Bryant, who was a col-laborator in a 2011 study sponsored by Food Safety News, found that 75 per-cent of honey samples col-lected from drugstores, local producers and supercenters like Wal-Mart, Target and Costco did not have pollen. However, Bryant said “al-most all” of the local honey contained pollen.

Bryant first began study-ing pollen while working on his masters in anthropology. In 1975, Bryant was asked to examine suspicious samples of honey for the Office of the Inspector General within the U.S Department of Ag-riculture (USDA) given by American beekeepers as part of a farm subsidy program that required the honey to be produced domestically.

From 1975 to 1980, Bry-ant continued to look at sam-ples sent to him and said the world price steadily increased over the subsidy price.

Bryant, along with the federal government, has speculated that Chinese honey has been mixed with honey and additives from other countries for shipment into the U.S. The pollen was

also being removed to pre-vent detection, Bryant said.

Bryant also said China produces “by far more honey than any other place in the world.” In 2001, the U.S. enforced a 250 percent tax on Chinese honey exporta-tion due to their “dump-ing” on the world market for “bargain prices.”

After 2001, Bryant said he would receive phone calls from many importers who were afraid they were in-advertently receiving illegal shipments of honey.

“We’re faced with some people who are concerned and want to be honest with what they sell,” Bryant said.

Tom Fris — a hobbyist beekeeper from McKinney, Texas, who has sent his hon-ey to Bryant for inspection — called the issue a constant moving target, with credibil-ity being an issue.

“I think that if you have a strong certification pro-gram, like pulling bottles from the shelf, it would en-force more credibility,” Fris said. “I think people would be shocked at what is on these shelves.”

Kimberly Childers, a manager of Brazos Natu-ral Foods, said many cus-tomers use local honey for medicinal purposes.

“We have customers who buy local [unfiltered] honey to assist with their allergies,” Childers said. “The bees are eating what’s locally in the area.”

Many also buy honey for its nutritional benefits as an

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alternative to refined sugars in the daily diet.

“If you don’t want to eat refined sugar, here is the sweetest, truest, most natural substance on earth,” Fris said.

Despite the lack of con-sistency in the honey in-dustry, Bryant said he was hopeful for the future if the honey regulations bill passes.

Texas A&M professor Vaughn Bryant (right) has been studying suspicious samples of honey since 1975, finding that some customers don’t know what they’re buying.

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Coufal said the chicks pro-duced by the hatchery are healthier, cleaner, and will grow and live longer if the hatchery environment is as sanitized as possible.

Coufal began his re-search in 2007 to sanitize eggs effectively and eventu-ally discovered a combina-tion of UV light and hydro-gen peroxide worked in a laboratory setting.

He said the research-ers continuously modify the process.

“We are trying to figure out how to apply the hydro-gen peroxide in a mecha-nized manner,” Coufal said. “We are trying to determine, ‘What are the parameters that optimize the treatment pro-cess?’ And, “How do we build a machine to replicate those optimized parameters?’”

In February 2012, Coufal and his graduate students built their first prototype.

“It was not fancy,but it did what we needed it to do,” Coufal said.

Nathan Fuchs, poultry sci-ence graduate student, said the prototype is effective in reduc-ing the number of bacteria on the eggs.

Coufal said the technology could have been ineffective if the natural defense mecha-nisms of the egg were also damaged, but said there was no significant difference found in embryo mortality though.

Engineer William Love, Class of 2009, took Cou-fal’s prototype and built the first commercial version of the egg-sanitizing machine in 2013.

“The machine was de-signed with the intent of be-ing user friendly as well as user safe.” William said. “And I would say that the machine should be very durable given the environment it is being used in.”

Coufal said he and his re-search team are collaborat-ing with a commercial farm to conduct a field trial of the machine.

“They are treating thou-sands of eggs per day with the machine, and they are going to track how many rotten eggs they get through the hatchery over a course of several months,” Coufal said. “Hopefully, over about, a six- month period, they are going to generate a very large data set, proving its efficacy.”

Depending on the field trial data, Coufal estimated his ma-chine will be ready for com-mercialization within the next year.

“Once we get that informa-tion and we are satisfied that it is going to work in a commer-cial setting as it should, then we will be ready to commer-cially mass produce,” Coufal said.

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Cannon said while Manziel was originally scheduled to speak at the press conference, he decided with Cannon that it was in his best interest not to attend.

Sumlin said Manziel will be available to the media in the future.

While an investigation looms over him, Sumlin said Manziel will practice with the team as usual.

“He’ll get as many reps as he was going to get yesterday,” Sumlin said.

Monday afternoon at the team’s first fall practice, Manziel looked loose — smiling, jok-ing with coaches and teammates. He appeared back in his natural element: the football fields.

“When Johnny’s with us and we’re on the field, we’re in the film room, he’s focused,” offensive coordinator Clarence McKinney said. “He takes care of business, he wants to win. One of his biggest attributes is he hates to lose more than he wants to win. He hasn’t shown us anything different.”

Sumlin was asked if Manziel would play if an investigation continues through the Aug. 31 season opener or further into the regular season.

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“There’s a lot of people involved in that de-cision,” Sumlin said. “I’m not here to speculate on what could happen or will happen.”

Manziel’s teammates spoke about the news but emphasized the excitement of getting back on the playing field.

“I haven’t spoken to him but, as a team, nothing is different,” said senior running back Ben Malena. “We went out last night for our team function and everything was fine.”

Manziel’s favorite target en route to winning the Heisman Trophy was receiver Mike Evans, who said he “didn’t pay any mind” to the Man-ziel news Sunday.

Senior defensive back Toney Hurd Jr. said the team was ready to get back on the playing field to escape the offseason news.

“I feel like on that field all our worries will be gone,” he said. “We’ll get the music cranked up, Coach Sumlin out there with his shades. I’m sure everybody’s ready to get back to doing what we love doing. We’re ready to do what we love to do.”

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Freshman wide receiver Kyrion Parker (left) and sophomore receiver Mike Evans chat during drills in Monday’s first practice at the Coolidge Grass Practice Fields.

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