River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-02

tains a provision that no meat or
meat food product shall be sold or of
fered for sale by any person, firm or
corporation in Interstate or foreign
commerce under any false or decep,
tive name, but established trade
names which are usual to such prod
ucts and which are not false and de-
ceptive and which shall be approved
by the secretary of agriculture are
permitted
The regulation on this subject pro-
vides that trade labels which are
false or deceptive in any particular
shall not be permitted, and that
meat food product whether composed
of one or more ingredients, shall not
be named on the trade label with
name stating or purporting to show
that the said meat food product is
substance which is not the principal
ingredient contained therein, even
though such name be an established
trade name.
These provisions in regard to labels
conform to the requirements of the
pure food law. 1t was stated at one
time that the provisions of the meat
inspection law confiicted with the
pure food law, but this idea is not
borne out by the regulations just is.
sued.
Supervision of Stamps.
All stamps, labels and certificates
showing that meat and meat food
products have been inspected and
passed are required either to be af-
fixed by government employe or to
be affixed by an employe of the estab-
lishment under the personal super
vision of a government employee.
Certificates are required for exports
of cattle, sheep, swine and goats, and
the meat and meat food products
thereof, and no vessel having on
board any such animals, meat or meat
food products for export will be al
lowed to clear by the customs officers
until the certificate of the secretary
of agriculture, showing that the meat
is sound, healthful, wholesome and fit
for food, is produced.
Free Access to Houses.
For the purpose of enforcing the
law and the regulations, inspectors
and other government employees un-
der the direction of the inspector,
must have access to establishments at
all times by day or night, whether the
establishments be operate or not.
The regulation directs attention to
the fact that it is felony, punish
able by fine or Imprisonment, for any
firm or corporation or any agent or
employee thereof, to give or offer, di-
rectly or indirectly, to any depart
ment employee engaged in meat in
spection any money or other thing of
value with intent to influence the en-
ploye in the discharge of his duty.
Labelling Carcasses.
The provisions in regard to labelling
carcasses which are found diseased
and which have been condemned, are
very complete. A system of tags,
numbered in duplicate, with reports
to the inspector in charge, who, in
turn, reports to Washington, will
make it impossible for any carcass
which has once been tagged by de-
partment employee to escape the Wig
lance of the inspectors.
Method of Appeal.
| Whenever the proprietor Of an
establishment questions the action of
the inspector in condemning any car
cass or meat, he may take an appeal
to the inspector in charge, and from
the inspector in charge if he desires,
to the chief of the bureau of animal
industry, or to the secretary of agri-
culture whose decision is final, so far
as the department is concerned.
| All inspectors in charge of the meat
inspection stations are directed to no.
| tify the municipal authorities of the
character of the inspection and to CO.
operate with such authorities in pre-
venting the entry of condemned meat
or other products into tho local mar
| ketS.
Running through the regulations is
carefully prepared scheme which
will effectually prevent the entrance
| into sausage, curing, canning and 9th
er chopped meat establishments of
any carcasses which were not inspect
ed and passed by federal inspectors at
the time of slaughter.
One of the important provisions of
the regulations is the following defini-
ton:
GU. S. inspected and passed This
phrase shall mean that the carcasses,
parts of carcasses, meats and meat
food products so marked are sound,
heaIthful, wholesome and contain no
dyes, preservatives, chemicals or in
gradients, which render meats or
meat food products unsound, un-
healthful, unwholesome, unclean or
unfit for human food"