Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-08-02
STRINGENT REGULATIONS.
Product of The Packers Will be
Thoroughly InsPec ed.

Wilson today made public the reguli
tions under the new law governing tn
inspection of meat products for inte
state and foreign trade. They do no
however. cover the subject OF intel
state transportation of meat or tn
microscopic inspection of pork for ez
port. The regulations on these sub
jects, it is stated, will be issued later.
The regulations issued today are strin
gent throughout. and arc in line wit
the best authorities on the subjects Q
sanitation, preservatives, dyes, chemi
Gals and condemnation OF diseased
carcasses The general regulation
p~ovide that the scope of the inspection
shall cover a slaughtering, packing
meat canning. saIting, rendering o.
similar estsbIis hments whose meat Of
meat food products, in whole or in part
enter into interstate or foreign com
merce, unless exempted from inspec
ton by the Secretary OF Agriculture
which may be exempted by the Secre-
tarv 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. All animals, carcasses
and meat food products will be subject
ed to rigid inspection. Reinspecton
will be had wherever necessary.
The sanitation regulations require the
IN which animals are
slarghi cred or meats and meat food
products are prepared, cured, packed.
stored or handled to be suitable lighted
and ventilated, and to be maintained in
sanitary coudton. All work in such
esta bIishments must be performed in
cleanly and sanitary manner. All por-
tions of the buildings must be white
washed or painted, or where it is i'm
practicable, they must be washed,
scraped or otherwise rendered sanitary;
old floors and old equipment which can
not be made sanitary muet be removed
AID replaced by suitable material. All
trucks, trays, chutes, platforms, racks,
.ables, knives, saws, cleavers and all
Utensils and machinery used in handling
meats must be throughly cleansed daily.
= ,,>lO af ic1, mo mt natl
wear outer clothing of a material that is
asily cleansed and made sanitary, and
III toilet-rooms and dressing-rooms are
eQuired to be entirely separate from |
partments in which carcasses are
ressed or meats and meat food pro-
ucts are prepared.
Managers OF establishments will not
q permitted to employ anv person
fected with tuberculosis in any of the
apartments where carcasses are dress.
q, meats are handled or meat products
repaired. Butchers who dress diseas-
d carcasses are required to cleanse and
isinfect their hands and implements
efore touching healthy carcasees,
mployes who are unclesn and careless
person will not be allowed to handle
leats.
Weekly reports on sanitation are to
. made bv the employees in Chicago on
10 various departments to the inspector
charge Of the station. who in turn
ust report weekly to the Chief of the
ureau OF Animal Industry at Washing
n, but if any unsanitary conditions
g detected by any department en-
oye, such conditions must be reported
,mediately to the inspector in charge,
ho will report to Washington.
The provision relating to dves. chemi-
Is and preservative is stringent. No
eat or meat-food product for interstate
shall contain any substance
lich lessons its wholesomeness. nor
" drug, chemical or dye, unless {
ecifically provided by Federal {
,tute; or anv preseryative other than {
It, sugar. smoke, wood, vinegar, pure
ices and, peudIng further inquiry, salt
tire.
Meats and food products for export |
" contain preservatives in proper \
n which do not conflict with the laws
the foreign country to which they ave c
ported, but all meats or meat.food
,ducts 80 prepared for export must be
ated and kept in compartments of the
separate and apart from
,se in which meats and meat food r
,ducts are prepared for interstate C
nmerce. and be specially labeled and T
titled and stamped with the word il
pec,al." Such meats may not enter i,
nestle trade under any circumstances b
The inspection of animals before y
lighter, designated in the regulations \
the snte-mortem inspection, is \
anged to conform to the new law, and S
give the Secretary Of Agriculture c