The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-27


/ buildings must be Whitewashed or
| painted or where this is fmpracticable
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, drays. chutes, platforms. racks,
tables, knives. saws, c1eavers and all
utensils and all machinery used in
handling meats must be thoroughly
cleansed daily. Employees of the
esta bIishments must wear outer cloth
ing of material that is easily
cleansed and made sanitary, and all
toilet rooms, urinaIs and dressing
arate from apartments in which car
cases are dressed or meats and meat
food products are prepared. Man
ayers of esta blishments will not be
permitted to employ any person affect
ed with tuberculosis in any of the de-
partments where carcases are
dressed, meats are handled or meat
food products prepared. Butchers
who dress diseased carcases are re-
uuired to cleanse ana disinfect their
/ ing healthy carcases. Employees who
are unclean and careless of person
will not be allowed to handle meats
Weekly reports on sanitation are to
/ be made by the employees in Chicago
of the various departments to the in
spector in charge of the station, who
in turn must report weekly to the chief
of the bureau of animal industry at
Washington, but if any unsanitary con-
ditions are detected by any department
! employe, such conditions must be re-
ported Immediately to the inspector in
| charge who will report to Washington.
The provision relating to dyes. chemi-
Gals and preserVativeS is stringent. No
meat or meat food product for inter-
state commerce shall contain any sub
| stance which lessons its Wholesomeness,
nor any drug, chemical, dye unless
specifically provided for by federal
! statute or any preServatiVe other than
| common salt, sugar smoke, wood, vine
gar, pure spices and pending further
inquiry salt petre. Meats and food pro-
ducts for export may contain preserva-
| tiYes in proportion which do not con-
f1ict with the laws Of foreign countries
TO which they are exported, but all
meats or food products so prepared for
| export must be treated and kept in
compartments Of the establishment sep
arate and apart from those in which
meats and meat food products are pre-
pared for interstate commerce, spec
| tally labelled and certified and stamp
| ed with the word special Such N cats
! may not enter domestic trade under
any circumstances.
The inspection of animals before
slaughter, designated in the regulation
as the antemortem inspection is
| changed to conform to the new law
and to give the secretary of agriculture
1 power to require that all animals sus-
pected of disease on this ante mortem
inspection shall be slaughtered sepa-
rately and apart from all other animals
under the careful supervision of fed
/ eral inspectors. Heretofore the ante
mortem inspection has been made in
the stock yards, at the time the ami
mails arrived and has covered animals
which were to be slaughtered at estab-
lishments where inspection was main
tanned and those which were slaugh-
tered for local trade. The new law
does not authorize inspection of ami
mails for local trade. 1t came to the
spectators were taking advantage of
this form of inspection and the farm
ers who shipped the animals to mar
ket were thereby losing several hun
dred thousand dollars a year. Under
the new form of inspection the shipper
will be absolutely protected and viii
receive full price forsaI animals which
pass the Inspection.
Special provision, is made for the
destruction for food purposes of all
carcasses and parts of carcasses and
meat food products which upon in
spection or reinspection prove to be
unclean, unsound unhealthful, I'M
wholesome or otherwise unfit for hu-
man food. All such meat will be
placed in a tank in the presence of a
government inspector and all OPEN
ings to the tanks viii be sealed with
a government seal by the inspector.
Steam will be turned on. Before the
carcasses are placed in the tank suffi-
cient coloring matter will be added
to render 1t impossible that the tank
age can be used for lard or other
eatable product. If any establishment
refuses to follow the tanking regua-
lions inspection will Withdrawn and
the product of that esta blishment will
not be allowed in interstate or for
eign trade The regulation of the
meat inspection law provides that
trade labels which are false or de-
ceptive in any particular shall not be
permitted. Attention is directed to
the fact that it is a penalty, punisha bile
by fine or imprisonment. 10 attempt
to bride an inspector.
The provision in regard to labelling
carcasses which are found to be dis
eased and which have been condemned
are very complete. Inspectors and 9TH
er government employees must have ac-
cess to the esta blishments at all times
by day or night
The entrance into sausage. curing,
canning and other chopped meat estab-
lishments of any carcasses which were
not inspected and passed by federal in
spectors at the time of slaughter will
effectually be prevented.
The proprietor of any establishment
may take an appeal from the decision
of an inspector to the inspector in
charge and from him to the chief of the
bureau of animal industry or to the sec