Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-07-31
MEAT Inspection
Laws MADE public
REGULATIONS GOVERNING PACK.
ING HOUSE PRODUCTS ARE
MOST RIGID.

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CLEANLINESS IN ALL
PLANTS is ESSENTIAL
Butchers and Others Handling Car
casses to BE Spotless-Weekly Re-
ports by inspectors ordered-ship-
pers to Be Protected.
Washington, July 2S.-secretary
Wilson Friday made public the regu-
lations under the new law governing
the inspection of meat products for
Interstate and foreign trade. They do
not, however, cover the subject of In
terstate transportation of meat or the
microscopic inspection of pork for ex-
port. Regulations on these subjects,
1t was stated, will be issued later. The
regulations issued Friday are strin-
gent throughout, and are in line with
the best authorities on the subjects Of
sanitation, pressrvatives, dyes, chem
icals and condemnation OF diseased
carcasses.
Only Retail Trade Exempt.
The general regulations provide
that the scope Of the inspection shall
cover all slaughtering, packing, meat
canning, sailing, rendering or skm-
flar establishments whose meats or
meat food products, in whole or in
part, enter into interstate or foreign
commerce, unless exempted from In
spection by the secretary Of agricult-
nre Under the law the only estab-
lishments which may be exempted by
the secretary are retail butchers and
retail dealers supplying their custom
ers in interstate or foreign trade. but
even these exempted classes are re-
Quired to submit to the secretary an
application for exemption. All ami
mails, carcasses and meat food prod
nets will be subjected to rigid inspec-
ton. Reinspection will be had wher-
ever necessary.
For Good Lighting and Ventilation.
! Sanitation regulations require the
establishments in which animals are
slaughtered or meat and meat food
products are prepared, packed, stored
or handled to be suitably lighted and
ventilated. and to be maintained in a
sanitary condition. All work in such
establishments must be performed in
q clsanly and sanitary manner. All
portions Of the buildings must be
whitewashed or painted, or where
this is impracticable, they must be
washed, scraped or otherwise rem.
dered sanitary. old floors and old
equipment which cannot be made san
sltary, must be removed and replaced
by suitable materials. All trucks,
trays, chutes. platforms, racks, tables,
knives, saws. cleavers and all utensils
and machinery used in handling meats
must be thoroughly cleansed daily
Clothing Of Employees.
Employees Of the establishments
must wear outer clothing Of mate
rial that 10 easily cleansed and made
sanitary, and all toilet rooms, urinals
and dressing rooms are required to be
entirely separate from apartments In
which caroasses are dressed OF 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 car
casses are required to cleanse and
disiAfect their hands and implements
before touching healthy carcasses.
Employees who are unclean and care
less Of person will not be allowed to
handle meats.
Reports Of Sanitation Ordered.
Weekly reports on sanitation are to
be made by the employees in charge OF
various departments to the inspector
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
conditions are detected by any de.
partment employe. such conditions
must be reported Immediately to the
inspector in charge. who will report
to Washington.
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
its wholesomeness. nor any drug,
chemical or dye, unless specifically
provided for by federal statute, or
any preesrvative other than common
salt. sugar, wood smoke, vinegar. pure
spices, and, pending further inquiry
saltpeter. Meats and meat food prod
ncts for export may contain preserva
tives in proportion which do not con.
flict with the laws of the foreign
countries to which they are exported,
but all meats OF meat food products,
SO prepared for export, must be treat
ed 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
enter domestic trade under any cir.
cumstances.
inspection Laws Altered.
The inspection of animals before
slaughter, designated in the regula.
tions as the ante norton inspection
is changed TO conform to the new law,
q and to give the secretary of agricuit.
.ure authority to require that all ami.
malls suspected OF disease on this ante
mor1em inspection shall be slaugh.
tered separately and apart from all