The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-06
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the methods of preparation of canned
meat food products.
The legislation which has lust be-
come effective provides the department
of agriculture with an adequate law
into effect. Supervision and inspec-
ticn will be extended from the pasture
to the package. The federal stamp
upon the can will be a guarantee not
only OF the healthfulness OF the ami
NAL, but also that the product was pre-
pared in sanitary surroundings, and
with the addition of no deleterious
chemical or preservative. Any meat
food product bearing the government
stamp will be fit for food.
With this law in operation it may
be accepted as Il fact that for health
fu!ness and purity the prepared or
canned product will compare favor
ably with the fresh meat OF the United
States. which is and always has been
the finest in the world.
The new law is comprehensive. the
means for its enforcement are ample,
and its execution will be thorough.
People at home and abroad may use
our meats in confidence
Secretary Wilson said this after
noon that he would start for Chicago
personally to inspect the packing
houses and to satisfy himself that the
law was being enforced in every par
ticular the last of this week. Later
the secretary will visit other packing
centres. and will not rest until he is
satisfied that the packing industry is
being thoroughly and adequately SUI
pervised throughout the country.
DR.. Melvin. chief of the bureau of
animal industry, said today that the
people of the United States could rest
assured that practically all beef killed
in this country after July l was being
inspected in accordance with the pro-
visions of the new law. The civil
service commission has furnished
large number of inspectors. and the
packers are only too eager to recover
the ground they have lost by comply
ing in every particular with the pro-
visions OF the law.
From pasture to can" is the motto
of Secretary Wilson. and as soon as
the pure food law goes into effect it
will take hold where the meat in
spection law leaves Off The latter
insures federal supervision of the
meat and meat products from the pas
ture to the point where the article
enters commerce. and the pure food
law will insure federal supervision of
the Article as long as it remains in
commerce or until it reaches the con-
sumer
To carry into effect the meat inspec-
ton law the civil service commission
has announced an examination of
inspectors to be held on the 2lst inst.
The regulations under which the eX-
aminatiOns are to be held do not re-
quire that the inspectors be veterin-
aries, but they must from experience
be qualified to determine whether or
not meat is sound, wholesome and
fit for human food. They must be
competent to supervise the prepara-
ton and handling of various meat food
products, must be between twenty
one and fifty years of age and must
have not had less than one years en-
Derience in the work required to be
done. The entrance salary is $1,000
a year.
Lieutenant Colonel p f. F. Hobbs, OF
the British army. today visited Sec
rotary Wilson. with view to getting
his assistance to investigating Ameri-
can meat products. Colonel Hobbs
was assigned by the commissiary de-
partment of his army to inquire into
contracts which the British govern
ment has with American packers.
When the new inspection law has
been put into operation. Colonel
Hobbs said, the British government
will willingly accept American in
spection. Colonel Hobbs was intro
duced by Brigadier General Sharp,
commissary general of the United
States army.