The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-07
AS TO MEAT INSPECTION.

The statement issued by Secretary
Wilson, under the direction OF the
| President, in regard 10 the canned
| meats designed for export, is timely,
| and should do away with all appre-
hension on the part or European buy
ers OF the meats packed in Chicago
or other American packing houses. The
| new pure food law, of course, viii also
help In easing the minds of purchasers
! az TO any article of food exported from
Aycrica after the law went into opera
| ton
At the same time. It should not be
| forgotten that the Federal inspection
OF meat at the packing houses In this
country has always been rigid. and Is
found to meet the exacting require
mont of the German market and the
German government inspection. which
Is only too ready TO find fault with
| any article OF food imported into that
Empire. and 1t is especially keen In Its
examination OF meat products from
America
The fact is that whatever objections
packing houses have emphatlcally not
been made as to meats for export. The
difficulty has been In the suppostion
that meats intended for home use have
not been so thoroughly Inspected as
those intended for export. The Fed
eral inspection reached, heretofore, TO
export meats only. Meats put up for
II tn ~ h
ject to Federal inspection, At the
same time. it must not be supposed
that because these meats were not In
spected by the government officials
that they escaped inspection altogether,
for the city of Chicago and the State
of Illinois have all along insisted upon
proper and fair inspection Of the meats
put up in the packing houses.
IT is now universally recognized that
the reports which carried dismay
throughout our country as to the con-
ditions in the packing houses of CHI
cago were grossly exaggerated; FUR
thernore. that the publication OF these
reports was entirely needless, because
packers voluntarily offered prior to the
publication to remedy every possible
defect if they were given even a linz
tied time In which to do so. 1T VIII
always be a mystery why these reason
able requests OF the packers were not
complied with and the reports filed
away In the official pigeon-holes where
they belong.
At the same time, by reason of those
Wild reports, the public statement made
by Secretary Wilson that American
live stock is the healthiest In the
world. that the inspection OF the ami
mails before and at the time of slaugh-
ter has always been thorough; that
what was heretofore lacking In the
power Of the Department OF Agricul-
ture to provide for an efficient super
vision and sanitation In the methods
of the preparation of canned meat
food products has now been thor-
oughly supplied; and that the Federal
stamp upon the can will be guar
antee not only OF the healthfulness or
the animal, but also that the product
was prepared in sanitary surroundings
and with the addition OF no deleterious
chemicals or preservatives, Will ef-
fectually close the mouth OF any carp
Ing objections to American meats. The
legislation on this subject Is now ALL
that can be desired, and the country.
as well as the world at large, can rest
perfectly secure in the efficiency, the
honesty. and the faithfulness Of the
inspection which Secretary Wilson Will
provide,