Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-08-02

REGULATIONS ISSUED BY sEcRE.
sTARY WILSON ARE MOST
STRINGENT.
Packing Houses Must Be Clean in
Every Particular and Animals to
Be Slaughtered Perfectly Healthy
in Order to Be Entitled to Labels.

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in Order to BE Entitled to Labels.
Washington, July 49, Secretary
Wilson Friday made public the regu
lations under the new law governing
the inspection OF meat products for
interstate and foreign trade. They do
not, however; cover the subject of in
terstate transportation Of meat or the
microscopic inspection of pork for ex
| port. Regulations on these subjects,
it was stated. will be issued later.
| The general regulations provide
| that the scope Of the inspection shall
cover all slaughtering, packing, meat.
canning, sailing, rendering or sim
| liar establishments whose meats or
meat food products, in whole or in
part, enter into interstate or foreign
commerce, unless exempted from in.
spection by the secretary of agricul-
I ture. Under the law the only estab-
lishments which may 70 exempted by
the secretary are RI Ii butchers and
retail dealers supplying their custom.
ers in interstate or foreign trade but
even these exempted classes are re-
Quired to submit to the secretary an
application for exemption. All ami
mails, carcasses and meat food prod
ucts will be subjected to rigid inspec-
ton. Reinspecion will be had wher-
ever necessary. ' i-..f-lf...:l'.- (,
Lighting and Ventilation. J..
Sanitation roC,,1ofio roo,,;ro -
establishments in which animals are
slaughtered or meat and meat food
products are prepared, packed, stored
or handled to be suitably Ahted and
ventilated, and to be maintained in a
sanitary condition.
All portions Of the buildings must
be whitewashed or painted. or where
this is impracticable, they must be
washed, scraped or otherwise rem
dered sanitary. .., ....
All trucks, trays, chutes, platforms,
racks, tables, knives, saws, cleavers
and all utensils and machinery used in
handling meats must be cleansed
daily. l., .'.--
Clothing Of Employees.
Employees must wear outer clothing
of a material that is easily cleansed
and made sanitary. All toilet rooms,
urinals and dressing rooms are re-
Quired to be entirely separate from
apartments in which carcasses are
dressed or meats and meat food prod
ucts are prepared. Managers of es-
adjustments will not be permitted to
employ any person affected with tu-
berculosis in any of the departments
where carcasses are dressed, meats
pared. -
Butchers who dress diseased car
casses are required to cleanse and
disinfect their hands and. implements
before touching healthy earcasses.
Reports on Sanitation.
Weekly reports on sanitation are to
be made by the employees in charge of
various departments to the inspector
il. charge OF the station, who in turn
must report weeAly to the chief of
the bureau of animal industry at
Washington. But If any unsanitary
conditions are detected by any de-
partment employee, such conditions
Alust be. reported Immediately to the
INSPECTOR in charge, who will report
to Washington. .-..3s -
The provision relating to dyes,
chemicals and preservatives is strin-
gent. All ~ "....- ....:-
New Inspection Rules.
The inspection of animals before
slaughter, designated in the regula-
tons as the ante norton inspection,
is changed to conform to the new law,
and to give the secretary of agricul-
ture authority to require that, all ami
mails suspected of disease on this ante
mortem inspection shall be slaugh-
tered separately and apart from all
other animals. under Tho careful su-
pervision of federal inspectors.
Destructior Of carcasses.
Special provision Is made for the
destruction for food purposes of, all
carcasses and parts Of carcasses and
meat food products which, upon in
spectiOn. or reinspection, prove to be
unclean, unsound, unhealthful, un-
wholesome. or otherwise unfit for hui
man food. All such meat viii be
placed in tank in the presence Of q
government inspector, and all open
ings to the tank will be sealed with
a government seal by the inspector.
Steam will be turned on. Before the
carcasses are placed jn tho tank suf-
ticient coloring matter will be added