New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-07-18
GERMAN NEAT INSPECTION.
THE NEW REGULATIONS AND THEIR
EFFECT ON AMERICAN EXPORTS.
TBY rELseRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE !

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Washington, July 1.-THE code of regulations for
carrying into effect from October l next the famous
German meat inspection law Of June g. 1900 has
just been issued from the Imperial Health Office
and In transmitting copy to this government
Consul General Mason. at Berlin. gives the State
Department synopsis of those provisions which
are OF public interest. The regulations which
promise TO stop the Importation into Germany Of
the greater part of American meat products. ill
a pamphlet OF twenty-four crowded quarto pages.
in which the whole system is forth with the
elaborate thoroughness and mnuteness of detail
characteristic of German legislation and admins
tration.
The first part comprises the statute, which after
several years of agitation and discussion finally
enacted June 8. 1900 Then follows the decree Of
June 80 1900 putting into effect from October Of
that year the twelfth section of the law, which
forbids the Importation OF canned meats. sausages
and other forms Of finely cut meats This part Of
the statute. being direct and simple prohibition.
could be enforced at once. whereas the remainder
of the law. which provides for most elaborate
and far reaching system of inspection Of animals
and meats and official supervision of cattle sheep
and hog markets slaughter houses. and the whole
process of preparing and preserving meats, had TO
remain in allegiance until the necessary buildings
could be erected trained inspectors provided. and
the other requisite machinery completed and put
into working order. This has now been done, and
the regulations just published announce the prac-
teal working methods of the system. II is
divided into chapters, follows;
Chapter includes forty-eisht sections. many of
which have several subsidiary paragraphs and the
whole occupies eleven pages OF the published code.
1t prescribes with microscopic minuteness the sys
TEN of inspection and treatment by the sanitary
police of animals. slaughter houses and meats
throughout the empire. 1t in effect the whole
domestic production of meats in Germany. and Is
throughout as precise and exacting scientific
sanitary erudition make L. II is this portion
Of the new system which has evoked thus far the
principal opposition in Germany. The advocates
of the statute assert that II is merely the appli-
cation of modern sanitary science to the prepara-
ton Of important class of food products that 1t
embodies and provides for the protection which the
national government owes to the lives and health
Of e people Opponents OF the new systen-among
whom may be reckoned most butchers. provision
dealers, market and In general the agri-
cultural classes. whose interests make them advo-
Gates of cheap and plentiful food-denounce these
regulations as the outgrowth OF scientific fanati-
cism, phase of technical pedantry which has no
proper place in the economics of every day life.
That 1t will increase the cost and difficulties OF uti-
izing the already inadequate supply OF home
grown meats is obvious Whether the additional
security as to quality will Offset these disadvan-
tages experience only determine
Chapter lays down regulations for the ex-
animation and qualification OF inspectors who must
be competent veterinary surgeons; Chapter covers
the code OF instructions for sub-nspectors who are
not educated at veterinarias; Chapter prescribes
the regulations for inspection and sanitary treat