Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-07-07
CLEAN B|LLOF
HEALTH FOR !.
PACK|NGTOWN.
Experts Found Things Pure
and Wholesome.
EVERY PRECAUTI0N TAKEN TO
GUARD PURITY OF PRODUCTS
Committee Of Business Men Use
Whitewash Freely in Report
on Meat Industry.

Chicago, July 6.--The report of tho
joint committee OF the Chicago COM
mercial association and the Illinois
Manufacturers association appointed
to investigate the packing industries
of Chicago, together with the report
of the experts who accompanied them,
was made public today The commit
tee says
"That a board of experts of the
character employed, with professional
ideals and guided and influenced by an
aesthetic sense which embodies some
thing of necessity and something more
of luxury should find the product
wholesome, the yards generally
clean and the inspection efficient,
seems to your committee to cover the
situation.
''As a result of this investigation W.
ourselves have no hestancy in stating
that the meat products at the yards
are wholesome and proper food.
1--WE find that the companies have
been improving the conditions and
products from year to year; that inn
proyements are constantly being ma lie
and will be made, and we believe that
conditions and surroundings at tho
plants carefully protect the quality of
the products"
The experts who accompanied the
committee were DR. w. A. Evans, pro-
fcssor of pathology of the University
of Illinois; DIR. Maximilan Herzog,
late pathologist, bureau of science.
Manila, p. l.; DR.. NJ. r. Ravenal.
pathologist to the Phipps Institute,
Philadelphia; Prof A. r. Peters, V. S.,
University of Nebraska, and President
Of M. II. Reynolds, V. s., University of
Minnesota, all eminent specialists.
Their investigation lasted two
weeks, during which they made as
thorough study of conditions in the
stock yards and packing houses as
they could possibly make within thqt
time.
"They say that part of most OF tn"
plants are up-to-date, yet in each of
these there are some sections that are
only indifferently good, and In most of
them there are things that they can-
not approve of.
"The committee can cite no better
evidence of the truth of this statement
than the variety of Improvements that
are under way everywhere. These bet
termcnts relate in some places 10
minor things, and in others they mean
complete rebuilding of old plants"
Generally speaking, the more re-
Gently built plants are the best. an
much of the adverse criticism has had
its origin in conditions at old build
ings which have been added to and
adapted to expanding business, Yet
when the committee had come to an
alyze this criticism, they found that
part of il at least is based on princi-
Piles that are known, and part of 1t up
on an aesthetic sense and a popular
demand that food products shall be
produced In places conforming to GER
tain somewhat vague ideals,
In summing up their observations
of the system of inspection, the COM
mittee says!
The inspection of carcasses has been
observed in operation in all of the houses
and very considerable amount OF
time has been spent, In some cases fol
hours in succession, at the same place,
studying this department of the work.
There are, unquestlonably, certain
features regarding which some minor
suggestions and criticisms might fairly
be made, but In general 1t was found
that the inspection of the dead AMI
NAL. up to the time the carcass ana
| the separated organs are passed from
the killing room was reasonably care
full. thorough and generally efficient.
'1t Is the opinion Of the committee
that diseased animals reaching the
yards do not get into the stockyards
slauRhterlng houses.
'It Is our opinion that dressed meat
of the stockyards is wholesome and a
proper article for human food
"The methods employed In preserv-
| ing meats are for the most part clean
| ly, nothing seriously Objectionable be.
ing observed in any OF the houses Wis.,
tied. The pickllng of meats has not
presented any very Objectionable fea-
lures. Tt is suggested that the skeweT
used in testing hams be immersed IN
boiling water between the tests, and
that the greatest care should be OK.
erclsed IN selecting healthy operatives
especially the man who acts as tester
"Your committee Il OF the opinion
that the canning departments visited
arc. In general. in a clean condition
and that the handling Of the materia
is done In n eleanlv manner by prop.
erly dressed. healthy persons, ant
that the finished canned meats offered
for sale constitute a wholesome an(
In varying degrees, nutritious article
Of diet
'It is certainly not true that muel
shifting goes on. with consequent con
tamlnation Of tho food products"
In closing the report tho committeI
refers to the new United states mea