The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1906-12-04
MEATRULES ARE SEVERE
REGULATIONS UNDER NEW LAW
ISSUED BY SECRETARY WILSON.
Afford a Full Guarantee Of Healthful.
ness-sanitary Measures Specified;
Reports Required-Destruetio Of
Condemned Flesh Secured

ness-SSnitary Measures Spcciheds
Reports Observation-Disclosures Of
Condemned Flesh Secured.
The regulations for the killing and
preparation OF meats for interstate
and foreign commerce. issued by Sec
rotary Wilson. are comprehensive and
iar-reaching. and insure thoroughly
sanitary and healthml meat foods TO
all consumers OF American meats.
both I'm this country and abroad. de.
clares the Washington correspondent
OF the Boston Transcript see that
tag will be the injunction 81 every
handler OF frst-class meats. and the
tag will be the consumers guarantee
OF strictly frst-class article Under
the new law the secretary of agrlcul-
ture is empowered to deny federal in
spection TO any packer or slaughterer
who refuses TO permit all unhealthful
and rejected meat to be "tankcd."
and the regulations say that he will
do so. This remedies the gravest de
feet in the old inspection law. where
by condemned meats were sold TO 10
cal consumers. and the government
was powerless to prevent H. Regu-
lations covering interstate transporta-
ton of meats and the microscopic ex-
animation vii be issued later.
The regulations provide that tho
scope of the inspection shall cover all
slaughtering, packing. meat canning.
sailing, rendering or similar cstab-
llshments whose mats or meat-food
products. In whole or i'm part. enter
into interstate or foreign commerce.
unless exempted from inspection by
the secretary Of agriculture Under
the law the only establishments
winch may be exempted by the sec
rotary are those of retail butchers
and retail dealers supplying their
customers in interstate or foreign
trade. but even these exempted class
es are required to submit to the sec
rotary an application for exemption.
All animals, carcasses and meat food
products will be subjected to "A rigid
inspection. Reinspection will be had
wherever necessary
The sanitation regulations require
the establishment in which animals
are slaughtered or meats and meat
1000 products are prepared, cured,
packed, stored or handled to be suit
ably lighted and ventilated and to be
suitably lighted and ventilated. and
TO be maintained I'm a sanitary condi-
ton. All work I'm such establish
ments must be performed in a clean
ly and sanitary manner All parts of
the buildings must be whitewashed or
painted, or, where this is impractica-
ble they must be washed. scraped
or otherwise rendered sanitary: old
floors and old equipment which can
not be made sanitary must be re-
moved and replaced by suitable ma
terials. All trucks. trays, chutes,
platforms. racks. tables, knives. saws,
cleavers and all utensils and machin-
cry used in handling meats must be
thoroughly cleansed daily.
Employees of the establishments
must wear outer clothing of a materi-
al that is easily cleansed and made
sanitary and all toilet rooms and
dressing rooms are required to be en-
ttrely 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 carcasses are required
TO cleanse and disinfect their hands
and implements before touching
healthy carcasses. Employees who
are unclean and careless of person
will not be allowed to handle meats.
The provision relating to dyes.
chemicals and preservatives is strin-
gent. No meat or meat food product
for interstate commerce shall con
tain any substance which lessons it's
wholesomeness, nor any drug. chem.
ical or dye, unless specifically provid-
ed for by a federal statute, or any
preservatives other than common
salt. sugar. wood smoke. vinegar.
pure spices and pending further in
quiry. saltpetre Meats and meat food
products for export may contain pre-
servatives In proportions which do
not conflict with the laws OF the for
eign country 10 which they are EXPORT
ed, but all meats or meat food prod
ucts so prepared for export must be
treated and kept in compartments of
the establishment separate and apart
from those in which meats and meat
food products are prepared for inter
state commerce. specially labeled and
certified, and stamped with the word
Special" Such meats may not en-
ter domestic trade under any circum-
stances
The inspection of animals before
slaughter designated i'm the regula-
tons as the ante-mortem inspection.
IS changed TO conform to the new law
md to give the secretary of agricul.
ture authority TO require that all ami
mails suspected of disease ON this
antemortem inspection shall be
slaughtered separately and apart
from AN other ANNALS. under the
careful supervision of federal inspcc-
tors Heretofore the antem-mortem
inspection has been made I'm the
stock yards at the time the animals
arrived, and has covered animals
which were to be slaughterer at as.
Adjustments where inspection was
maintained and those which we're
slaughtered for local trade
Special provision is made for the
destruction of all carcascs and parts
of CarCaS and meat food produofe