The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-08-03

MISUNDERSTANDING w lAoOh AAe'o
made public the regulations under the
new law governing the inspection OF
meat products for interstate and for
eign trade. They do not, however,
cover the subject of interstate trans
portation OF meat or the microscopic
inspection of pork for export Regu-
lations on these subjects, it was
stated, will be issued later.
The general regulations provide
that the scope of the inspection shall
cover all Strengthening, packing, meat
canning, sailing. rendering or sim
liar 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 agricul-
ture. 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 those exempted classes are re-
quired to submit to the secretary an
application for exemption.
Sanitary Regulations.
Sanitary 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 portions of
the buildings must be whitewashed
or painted, or where this is imprac-
ticable, they must be washed, scraped
or otherwise rendered sanitary. All
trucks, trays, chutes, platforms, racks,
tables. knives, saws, cleavers and all
utensils and machinery used in hand
ling meats must be thoroughly
cleansed daily.
Clean Outer Clothing.
Employees of the establishments
must wear outer clothing of a mate.
rial that is easily cleansed and made
sanitary. Toilet rooms, urinals and
dressing rooms are required to be en-
tirely separate from apartments in
which carcasses are dressed or 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
cases are required to cleanse and
disinfect their hands and implements
before touching healthy carcasses.
Inspectors to Report.
Weekly reports on sanitation are tC
be made by the employees in charge o
various departments TO the inspector
in charge of the station, who in turf
must report weekly TO the chief o
the bureau of animal industry a
Washington.
The provision relLting to dyes
chemicals and preservatives is strin
gent.
Heretofore the ante norton inspeC
ton has been made in the stool
yards, at the time the animals arrived
and has covered animals which wer,
to be slaughtered at establishment
where inspection was maintained, AM
| those which were slaughtered for lC
cal trade. The new law does not au
thorize inspection of animals for lc
cal trade. 1t came to the attention o
the department that spectators wer
taking advantage of this form of in
spection, and the farmers who shiI
ped the animals to market were there
by losing several hundred thousan
dollars a year. Under the new forr
of inspection the shipper will be as
solutely protected, and will receiv
full price for all animals which pas
the inspection.
The inspection of animals befor
slaughter, designated in the regul;
tions as the ante norton inspection
is changed to conform to the new Law
and to give the secretary of agricu
ture authority to require that all an
mails suspected of disease on this ant
norton inspection shall be slaugl
tered separately and apart from a
other animals, under the careful 81
pervision of federal inspectors.
Destruction Of Carcasses.
Special provision is made for tn
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carcasses and parts of carcasses an
meat food products which, upon Il
spection or reinspection prove to
unclean, unsound, unhealthful, u
wholesome, or otherwise unfit for h
man food. All such meat will
placed in a tank in the presence of
government inspector and sufficiel
coloring matter will be added to re
der it impossible that the tankal
can be used for lard or other eatab
I product. If any establishment refus'
$ TO follow the tanlkage regulation,
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