River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-02
RIGID INSPECTION OF MEAT
CERTAIN UNDER NEW RULES
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson Pro-
n1uIgates Regulations for the Guild
ance Of Packers and Federal
OverseerS at Packing Pla7tSs

made public the regulations under the
new law governing the inspection of
meat products for interstate and for
eign trade. They do not, however,
cover the subject Of interstate trans
portation of meat or the microscopic
inspection of pork for export Regu-
lations 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 To-
spection by the secretary of agricul-
ture. Under the law the only estab-
lishments which may be exempted by
the secretary are retail butchers and
retail dealers supplying their custom
ers in interstate or foreign trade, but
even those exempted classes are re-
quired to submit to the secretary an
application for exemption.
Sanitary Regulations.
Sanitary regulations require the
establishments in which animals are
slaughtered or meat and meat food
products are prepared, packed, stored
or handled to be suitably lighted and
ventilated, and to be maintained in a
! sanitary condition. All portions of
the buildings must be- whitewashed
or painted, or where this is imprac-
ticable, they must be washed, scraped
or otherwise rendered sanitary. All
trucks; trays, chutes, platforms, racks,
tables, knives, saws, cleavers and all
utensils and machinery used in hand
Ling meats must be thoroughly
cleansed daily.
Clean Outer Clothing.
Employees of the establishments
must wear outer clothing of mate
rial that is easily cleansed and made
sanitary. Toilet rooms, urinals and
dressing rooms are required to be en-
tirely separate from apartments in
which carcasses are dressed or meats
and meat food products are prepared.
Managers of establishments will not
be permitted to employ any person
affected with tuberculosis in any of
the departments where carcasses are
dressed, meats handled, or meat food
products prepared.
Butchers who dress diseased car
casses are required to cleanse and
disinfect their hands and implements
before touching healthy carcasses.
Inspectors to Report.
Weekly reports on sanitation are to
be made by the employees in charge of
various departments to the inspector
in charge of the station, who in turn
must report weekly to the chief of
the bureau of animal industry at
Washington.
The provision relating to dyes,
chemicals and preservatives is strin-
gent.
Heretofore the ante norton inspec-
ton has been made in the stock
yards, at the time the animals arrived,
and has covered animals which were
to be slaughtered at establishments
where inspection was maintained, and
those which were slaughtered for 10
cal trade. The new law does not au-
thorize inspection of animals for To-
cal trade. 1t came to the attention of
the department that spectators were
taking advantage of this form of in
| spection, and the farmers who ship
ped the animals to market were there
by losing several hundred thousand
dollars a year. Under the new form
of inspection the shipper will be as
solutely protected, and will receive
| full price for all animals which pass
| the inspection.
The inspection of animals before
slaughter, designated in the regula-
lions 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
norton inspection shall be slaugh-
tered separately and apart from all
other animals, under the careful SUI
pervision of federal inspectors.
Destruction 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, I'M
wholesome, or otherwise unfit for hui
man food. All such meat will be
placed in a tank in the presence of a
government inspector and sufficient
coloring matter will be added to rem
der it impossible that the tankage
can be used for lard or other eatable
product. If any establishment refuses
to follow the tankage regulation, in
spection will be withdrawn.
The meat inspection law under