The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-07-07

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the joint committee Of the Chicago
Commercial and the Illinois Manufac
turers' Associations appointed to in
yestigate the packing industries o
Chicago, together with the reports Of
exports who accompanied them were
made public today
The committee says THAT a board
of experts Of character We're employed
with profe sional ideals and guided
and influenced by an aesthetic sense
which embodies something Of the
necess ty and something more Of lux
ury, find the product wholesome
yards generally clean aud inspection
efficient which seems to your com
mittee to cover he situation
las a result of this investigation
we ourselves have no hesitency in
stating that meat products at the
wards are wholesime and proper food
We find the companies have been i'm.
proving the cond. .tions and products
from year to year, that improvements
are constantly being made and will
be made. and we believe conditions
and surroundings at the plants are
careful and protect the quality Of the
products
The expert who aecompan ed the
committee were;
Or w A. Evans, professor o.
Pathology, University of Illinois; Dr.
William Hcrsog. late Pathologist o
the Bureau of Science Manila, p. l..
Dr M p Ravenel. Pathologist Of
Phipps Institute, Philadelphia Prof
A. T Peters, " S. University Ne.
braska; Prof NJ II. Reynolds and V,
S. University, Minnesota.
Studied the Conditions.
Their investigation occupied two
weeks, during which time they made
Is thorough study of tha conditions
in stock yards and packing houses
as they possibly could make within
hat time, They say that part of most
# the plants are up 10 date, yet in
each OF these there are soee sections
them something they can not approve
of. sM
The committee can cite no better
evidence of the truth of this ate
msnt than the very extensive i'm
provements that are now under way
Nowhere" says the committee "is
there any greater vagueness and less
definite information than in regard &C
pre- erya'ives. Even scientists diffei
On this subject Your committee has
investigated by inquiry, by search.
and by analysis to determine where
pre- Cryatiycs were used It gives the
orcseryatiyes used but does net dis
cuss the question of harmfulne.s from
Drcscrvatives employed on the one
hand not supposedly increased dan
gers resulting from ne Of unpie
served produc,s, or products differ
entity preserved II especially com
mcnds these questions for further
scientific inquiry"
Danger Cry Absurd.
Concerning the healthfuness of
meats the committee quotes this 0pin.
ion of Prof William H. Welch Of the
John Hopkins t'nver.ity Baltimore:
In view of the absence of any possible
danger To health arising from the use
of the meat Of cattle affected with
only localized tuberculosis. or acti
nomyco.is (lumpy jaw)of slight or Of
Moderate extent it would, in my
opinion. be cxtravagaa, and indeed
absurd to condemn carrcasses of such
cattle. provided he animals are well
nourished aud otherwise in good con
dition II g. q course, understood
that diseased parts ana organ ar
completely removed and destroyed.
and proper precautions taken to guard
against accidental contamination Of
the meat with uibercle hacili during
and after slauehering A regards
tuberculosis I consider all reasonable
demands are met by condemnation of
carcasses affected with extensive. ac-
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