The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-28
RIGID LAW FOR
MEAT INSPECTION
No Chance for Packing-HOuse
Scandals if New Rules
Are Followed.
EVERY PHASE OF THE
INDUSTRY is COVERED
Sanitation Of the Places Where
SIaughtering Is Done Pro
yided For.

| under the new law governing the inspec-
tion of meat products for interstate and
foreign trade. They do not, however.
| cover the subject of interstate trans
| portation of meat or the microscopic
Inspection of pork for export Regulations
| on these subjects, 1t was stated, VIII be
issued later. The regulations Issued to-
! day are stringent throughout and are in
line with the best authorities on the
| subjects OF sanitation, preservatives,
! dyes, chemicals and condemnation OF dis
| eaSed carcasses,
The general regulations provide that
| the scope of the inspection shall cover
| all slaughtering, packing. meat canning,
| sailing. rendering or similar establish
ments whose meat or meat food products,
| In whole or in part, enter Into inter-
| state or foreign commerce, unless eX-
| empted from inspection by the Secretary
OF Agriculture, Under the law the only
| establishments which may be exempted
! by the Secretary are retail butchers and
retail dealers supplying their customers
in interstate or foreign trade. but even
| these exempted classes are required TO
| submit TO the Secretary an application
for exemption.
Inspection to be Complete.
All animals, carcasses and meat food
| products will be subjected 10 a rigid in
| spection, Reinspection Will be had
| wherever necessary
The sanitation regulations require the
establishments in which animals are
| slaughtered or meats and meat food pro-
ducts are prepared, cured, packed, stored
or handled to be suitably lighted and
ventilated and to be maintained in a
| sanitary condition, All work in such es-
Establishments must be performed in
cleanly and sanitary manner. All por-
tions of the buildings must be white
uyoc hol int ,,y1,ar
practicable. they must be washed
scraped. or otherwise rendered sanitary;
old floors and old equipment which can
not be made sanitary must be removed
and replaced by suitable materials All
trucks, trays chutcs, platforms, racks.
tables, knives, saws. cleaVers and all
utensils and machinery used in handling
meats must be thoroughly cIeansed
daily. Employees of the establishments
must wear outer clothing of a material
that is easily c1eansed and made sani-
tery and all toilet-rooms and dressing
rooms are required to be entirely sepa-
rate from apartments in which carcasses
are dressed or meats and meat food pro-
ducts are prepared.
Managers Of establishments will nor
be permitted 10 employ any person af-
fecred with tuberculosis in any OF the
departments whore carcasses are dressed.
meats are handled or meat food products
prepared.
Ante-Mortem Inspection. 9
The inspection OF animals before
slaughter, designated in the repu
lations as the antc-mortem inspection.
is changed TO 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 sepa-
ratGly and rt oil
under the careful supervision of Federal
inspectors. Heretofore, the ante-mortem
inspection has been made in the stock
yards at tho time the animals arrived
and has covered animals which were 10
be slaughtered at establishments where
inspection was maintained and those
which were slaughtered for local trade.
False Labels Barred,
The meat inspection law under which
the regulations are issued, contains
provision that no meat or NEAR food
product shall be sold or offered for sale
py any person, firm or corporation in
Interstate or foreign commerce under
any false or deceptive names but estab
ilshed trade names which are usual In
such products and which are not false
and deceptive and which shall be an
proved by the Secretary of Agriculture
are permitted.
AL stamps, labels and certificates
showing that meat and meat food nro
ducts have been inspected and nassod
are required to either be affixed by a
Government employee or to be affixed
by an employee of the establishment un-
der the personal supervision of Gov
eTnment employee.
Ever Open to Inspection.
For the purpose OF enforcing the law
and the regulations, inspectors and other
Government employees under the direc-
tlon OF the inspector, must have access
10 establishments at all times by day or
night, whether the establishment he ono
rated or not. Each employee of the de-
partment engaged In meat inspection will |
wear numbered badge for Identification |
purposes.
The regulation directs attention to The |
fact that IL is a felony, punishable bv |
hhe OF Imprisonment, 10 attempt to bribe |
an inspector 1t is also a felony for ang |
department employee engaged in meat |
inspection 10 receive or accent money or |
presents from any person or corporation |
engaged in interstate or foreign COM |
merce
The provisions In regard TO the label |
ing OF carcasses which are found diseased |
and which have been condemned are very |
complete. A system OF tags, numbered In |
duplicate with reports 10 the inspector !
In charge. who, in turn. reports TO Wash !
ington, Will make it impossible for any |
carcass which has once been tagged by |
department employee 10 escape the |
vigilance of the inspectors II such A |
carcass were spirited away the inspector
would know the fact at once
Right of Appeal Allowed.
Running through the regulation is
carefully prepared scheme which Will ef-
iectually prevent entrance into sausage
curing. canning and other chopped meat |
establishments Of any carcasses which |
were not Inspected and passed by Fed
eral inspectors at the time Of slaughter
whenever the proprietor of an establish
ment questions the action of inspectors
III conuemnlng any carcass or meat, he
may take an appeal TO the inspector In
charse; and from the inspector in charge
II he desires. TO the chief OF the bureau
oil animal Industry or 10 the Secretary
OF Agriculture, whose decision is hnal. |
so far as the department is concerned
All Inspectors in charge OF the meat