The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-28

he washed. scraped or otherwise rem dered sanitary; old floors and equip ment which cannot be made sanitary, must be removed and replaced by suit able materials.
 All trucks, trays, clfutes, platforms, racks. . tables, knives, saws. cleavers and all utensils and machinery used in handling meats must be thoroughly lishments must wear outer clothing of d material that Is easily cieansed and made sanitary and all toilet rooms, uri- nals and dressing rooms are required to he entirely separata from apartments in which carcasses are dressed, or meats and meat food products are pre- pared.
 Managers of establishments will not he permitted to employ any person af- feeted with tuberculosis In any of the departments where carcasses are dressed. meats handled or meat feed products prepared Butchers who dress diseased carcasses are required 70 cleanse and disinfect their hands and implements before touching healthy carcasses Empleyes who are unelean and careless of person will not be al- lewed to handle meats.
 Weekiy<reparts 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 bu- reau of animal industry at Washing ton, but If any unsanitary conditions are detected by any department em- pioye, such conditions must be reported immediately to the inspector in charge, who will report to Washington.
 The provisions relating to dyes. chemicals and conservatives Is strin- gent. No meat or meat food product for interstate commerce shall contain any substance which lessons It's whele- someness nor any drug, chemical or dye, unless specifically provided for by a Federal statute or any preservative other than common salt. sugar, wood, smoke, vinegar, pure spices and pend- ing further inquiry, saltpetFe.
 Meats and meat food products Tor export may contain preservatives in proportions, which do not conflict With the laws of the foreign country 10 which they are exported put all meats or meat food products, so prepared for export must be treated and kept Tn compartments of the establishment separate and apart from those in which meats and meat food products are pre- uared for interstate commerce. special iy labeled and certified and stamped with the word special" Such meats may not enter domestic trade under any circumstances,
 The inspection of animals before slaughter, designated in the regulations as the antermortem inspection IS changed to conform to the new law and to give the Secretary of Agricui- ture authority to, require that all ani- mals suspected of disease on the ante mortem inspection shall be slaughter ed separately and apart from all other fx1F ufrnorUiGfnn of Federal inspection. Heretofore the ante -mortem inspection has made In the stock yards, at the same time the ani- malls arrived and has covered animals which were to be slaughtered as estab- lishments where inspection was main tained and those which were slaugh- tered for local trade.
 It came to the attention of the de- partment that speeulators were taking advantage of this form of inspection and the farmers who shipped the ani- .mals to market were thereby losing several hundred thousand dollars a year. Under the new form of inspect tien, the shipper will be absolutely pro- tected and will receive full price for all animals which pass the Inspection
 Special provision Is made for the de- struction for food purposes of all car casses and meat food products which, upon inspection or re-inspection, prove to be unclean, unsound, unhealthfui, unwholesome.. or otherwise unfit for human food. All such meat will be placed in a tank in the presence of a ines to the tank will be sealed with a government seal by the government
 steam will be turned on before the carcasses are placed in the tank, suf- ficient coioring matter will be added thereto to render impossible that the meat can be used for lard or other eatables. If any establishment refuses to follow the tanking regulation, in spection will be withdrawn and the product of that establishment will not be allowed in interstate or foreign trade,
 ( The regulation of the meat inspect ion law provides that trade labels which are false or deceptive in any particular shall not be permitted.
 Attention is directed to the fact that 1t Is penalty punished by ine or imprisonment to attempt to bribe an inspector.
 The provision in regard to the la- belling of carcasses which are round to be diseased and which have been condemned are very complete, lnspec- tors and other government emp1oyes must have access to the establishments at all times by day or night. The en- trance into sausage. curing canning. and other chopped meat and parts Of any carcasses which were not inspee- ted and passed by federal inspectors at the time of slaughter will eneetually he prevented.
 The proprietor of any establishment may take an appeal from the decision of an inspector to the inspector Tn charge and from him to the chief or the Bureau of animal industry or to the Secretary of Agriculture, where the decision Is final so far as the oe- partment is concerned.