Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-28
Rooms Where Killing, Packing, Curing Are
Done Shall Be Clean and Light.
ANTE AND PosTWoRTEM INSPECTION
stringent Regulations for Destruction o.
Condemned Carcssses.
RETAIL MEAT DEALERS MAY BE EXCEPTED
NJ Person Having Tuberculosis Mas
BE Employed I'm Any Depart
ment where Food IL
Being Prepared.
PLANTS MUST Be KEPT SANITARY

81 AsHINGToN, July 2L-secretary VIII
son today made public the regulations
under the new law governing the inspec-
tion OF meat products for interstate and
foreign trade. They do not. however, cover
the subject OF Interstate transportation OF
neat or the microscopic inspection Of pork
or export Regulations on these subjects
{ was stated will be issued later. The
regulations issued today are stringent
throughout and are in line with the best
uthCrities on the subjects OF sanitation
,reservatives, dyes, chemicals and con
emnation OF diseased carcasses.
The general regula tions provide that the
cope Of the inspection shall cover all
laughtering, packing, meat canning salt
ng, rendering, or similar establishments
whose meats or meat food products, in
whole In part, enter into interstate or
foreign commerce, unless exempted from
Inspection by the secretary Of agriculture.
Under the law the only establishments
which may be exempted by the secretary
are retail butchers and retail dealers sup
plying their customers in interstate or for
eign trade, but even these exempted classes
are required to submit TO the secretary
8, an application for exemption.
y All animals, carcasses and meat food
products will be subject to a rigid in
spection. Reinspectlon will be had when
necessary.
Sanitation Regulations.
T. ianitation regulations require the es-
tsblf7 Aluents in which animals are slaught-
cred n meats and meat food are pre-
pared, cured. packed, stored or handled. TO
he suitably lighted and ventilated and to
he maintained In a sanitary condition. All
work IN such establishments must be per-
formed IN a cleanly and sanitary manner
y All portions OF the buildings must be
whltewashed or painted, or. where thfs Is
impracticable, they must be washed,
scrsped. or otherwise rendered sanitary;
old floors and old equipment which can
not be made sanitary, must be removed
and replaced by suitable materials. All
trucks. trays, chutes, platforms, racks,
tables, knives, saws. clsavsrs and all
utensils and machinery used in handling
meats must be thoroughly cleansed daily.
press of Employees.
Employees OF these establishments must
wear outer clothing OF a material that is
easily eleansed and made sanitary, and all
toilet rooms, urinals and dressing rooms
are required to be entirely separate from
apartments in which carcasses are dressed.
or meats and meat food products are pre-
pared. Managers OF establishments will
not be permitted to employ any person af-
fected with tuberculosis in any of the de-
partments where carcasses are dressed
meats handled or meat food pro-
ducts prepared Butchers who dress
diseased carcasses are required tc
cleanse and disnfect their hands and i'm.
plements before touching healthy car.
casses Employees who are unclean and
careless OF person will not be allowed tc
handle meats
weekly Report IL Required.
Weekly reports on sanitation are to be
made by the employees in charge of variou,
departments 10 the inspector in charge OF
the station, who in turn must report
weekly to the chief OF the bureau of ami
NAL industry at Washington, but IL any
unsanitary conditions are detected by any
department employe such conditions mus
be reported Immediately TO the inspector
IN charge, who will report to Washington.
The provision relating TO dyes chemicals
and preservatives is stringent. No mea
meat food product for interstate com
merce shall contain any substances which
lessen its wholesomeness, nor any drug
chemical or dye, unless specifically pro
vided for by federal statute, or any pre-
servative other than common salt, sugar
wood, smoke. vinegar pure spices, and
pending further inquiry, saltpetre Mea
preservatives in proportion. which do no
conflict with the laws OF the foreign coun
try TO which they are exported, but al
meats or food products prepared 70
export must be treated and kept In com
partments OF the establishment separat
and apart from those in which meats an
meat food products are prepared for in
terstate commerce, specially labeled an
certified and stamped with the wor
special" Such meats may not enter do
nestle trade under any circumstances.
Inspection Before Slaughter.
The inspection OF animals before slaugk
ter, designated in the regulations as III
ante-mortem inspection, Is changed 10 cor
form TO the new law and 10 give the SEE
rotary OF agriculture authority to requir
that all animals suspected OF disease o
this ante-mortem inspection shall b
slaughtered separately and apart from
other animals, under the careful supeI
vision OF federal inspectors. Heretofor
the ante-mortem inspection has been mad
in the stock yards al the time the animal
arrived and covered animals which WEI
20 be slaughtered at establishments wher
inspection was maintained and those whic
were slaughtered for local trade. The ne
law does not authorize inspection Of an
mails for local trade. II came to the a
were taking advantage Of this form OF II
spection and the farmers who shipped n
animals 20 market were thereby losin
several hundred thousand dollars a yea
Under the new form of inspection n
shipper will be absolutely protected and vi
receive full price for all animals whic
pass the inspection.
Condemned Animals Destroyed.
Special provision is made for the d.
struetion for food purposes OF all carcass
and parts OF carcasses and meat foe
products which. upon inspection or r
Inspection, prove to be unclean. unsoun
unhealthful. unwholesome. or otherwi
unnt for human food. All such meat vi
be placed In a tank in the presence OF
government inspector, and all openings
the tank will be sealed with a governmel
eeal BY the inspector Steam will be turn'