Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-28
PACKING HOUSES
MUST Be STRICT
REGULATIONS OF NEW LAW
MADE PUBLIC
Inspection and RelnspeotIon Of All
caroasses to BE Made When-
ever II Is Thought
Necessary
BY Associated Press.

WASHINGTON July 27.-Secretary
Wilson today made public the regula-
tions under the new law governing the
inspection of meat products for inter-
state and foreign trade. They do not,
however, cover the subject of inter-
state transportation of meat or the mi
croscopic inspection of pork for ex-
port.
The regulations on this subject, 1t is
stated, will be issued later. The regu-
lations issued today are stringent
throughout and are in line with the
best authorities on the subjects of san
itaton, preservation, dyes. chemicals
and condemnation of diseased car
cases.
The general regulations provide that
the scope of the inspection shall cover
all slaughtering, packing, meat can
ning sailing, rendering or similar es-
tablishments whose meats or meat
food products, in whole or in part, en-
ter into interstate or foreign COM
merce, unless exempted from inspec-
tion by the secretary of agriculture.
Under the law the only establish
ments which may be exempted by the
secretary are retail butchers and re-
tail dealers supplying their customers
in interstate or foreign trade, but
even lntSe 6NtInDleu CldSSeS are re-
quired to submit to the secretary an
application for exemption.
All animals, carcasses and meat food
products will be subjected to a rigid
inspection. Renspection will be had
wherever necessary.
Regulations Required
The sanitation regulations require
the establishments in which animals
are slaughtered or meats and meat
food products are prepared, cured,
packed, stored or handled to be suit
ably lighted and ventilated and to be
maintained in sanitary condition.
All work in such establishments
must be performed in a cleanly and
sanitary manner. All portions of the
buildings must be whitewaShed or
painted, or where it is impracticable
they must be washed, scraped or 9TH
erwise rendered sanitary.
Old floors and old equipment which |
cannot be made sanitary must be re-
moved and replaced by suitable ma
terials. All trucks, trays, chutes,
platforms, racks, tables, knives, saws, |
ceavers 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 material that
is easily cleaned and made sanitary,
and all toilet rooms, urinalS and dress
ing rooms are required to be entirely
separate from apartments in which the
carcasses are dressed or meats and
meat food products are prepared
Managers of establishments will not
be permitted to employ any person af-
| fected with tuberculosis in any of the
departments.
Employees must disinfect their hands
and implements before touching
healthy carcasses. Employees who are
unclean and careless of person will
not be allowed to handle meats.
Must Make Weekly Reports
Weekly reports on sanitation are to
be made.
The provision relating to dyes, chem
icals and personalities is stringent.
Meats and food products for export
may contain preservatiVes in propor-
ton which do not conflict with the laws
of the foreign country to which they
are exported, but all meats or meat food
products 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 irr
terstate commerce, specially labeled
and certified and stamped with the
word especial"
trade under any circumstances. The
inspection of animals before slaughter,
designated in the regulations as the
ante -mortem inspection, is changed to i
conform to the new law, and to give
the secretary of agriculture authority
to require that all animals suspected Of
disease on this ante-mortem inspection
shall be slaughtered separately and
apart from all other animals under the
careful supervision of federal inspec
| tors.
Inspection Rules Changed
Heretofore the -mortem inspec-
| tion 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 local trade.
The new law does not authorize inspec-
| tion of animals for local trade.
| 1t came to the attention of the de-
partment that spectators We're taking
advantage of this form of inspection
and the farmers who shipped the ami
mails to market were thereby losing
several hundred thousand dollars a
year. Under the new form of inspee-
ton, the shipper will be absolutely pro-
tected and will receive full price for all
animals which pass the inspection.
| Special provision is made for the de-
struction for food purposes of all car
casses and parts of oarcasses and meat
food products which upon inspection or
reinspection prove to be unclean, un-
sound or unhealthful, unwholesonie or
| otherwise unfit for human food.
| If any establishment refuses to follow
the regulations inspection will be with
drawn and the product of that estab-
lishment will not be allowed in inter-
state or foreign trade.
Prison Awaits lsribers
The regulation of the meat inspec-
ton law provides that trade labels
which are false or deceptive in any par
ticular shall not be permitted.
Attention is directed to the fact that
1t is a penalty punishable by fine or
Imprisonment to attempt TO bribe an
Inspector. ~
The provisions In regard to the LABEL
ing of carcasses which are found to be
diseased and which have been con-
demned are very complete. The in
spector and other government employees
must have access to the establishments
at all times by day or night.
The proprietor Of any establishment
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