The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-28

VI the loreieH country 10 which are eS-
ported, but all meats or meat food
products so prepared for export must
be treated and kept in compartments
OF the establishment separate and apart
from those In which meats and meat
food products are prepared for inter-
J state commerce, specially labelled and
certified and stamped with the word
| special" Such meats may not enter
domestic trade under any circum-
stance.
inspection Before Slaughter.
The inspection of animals before
slaughter, designated I'm the regulations
as the ante-mortem inspection, is
| changed to conform to the new law and
TO give the secretary of agriculture au-
,thority to require that all animals sus-
pected of disease on this ante mortem
inspection shall be slaughtered separ-
atcly 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 animals
arrived and has covered animals which
were to be slaughtered at establish
ments where inspection was maintained
and those which were slaughtered for
local trude The new law does not au-
thorize inspection of animals for local
trade. 1t came to the attention of the
department that spectators were ia
king advantage of this form of inspec-
ton, and the farmers who shipped the
animals. to market were thereby losing
several hundred thousand dollars a
year. Under the new form of irspec-
ton. the shippers will be absolutely
protected and will receive full price for
l1I a nj a ~,
Destruction Of Diseased Meats.
Special provision is made for the de-
struction for food purposes of all car
casses and parts Of carcasses and meat
food products, which, upon inspection
or reinspection, prove to be unclean
unsound, Onhealthful. unwholesOme or
otherwise unfit for human food. All
such meat will be placed in a tank i'm
the presence of government inspector,
and all openings to the tank will be
sealed with government seal by the
inspector. Steam will be turned ~.
Before the carcasses are placed i'm the
tank suff1clent coloring matter will be
added to render it impossible that the
tankage can be used for lard or other
eatable products. If any establishment
refuses to allow the tankage- reg:JIn-
W
the product of that establishment will
not be allowed in interstate or foreign
trade.
No False Labels.
The meat inspection law under which
the regulations are issued, contains a
provision that no meat or meat food
product shall be sold or offered for sale
by any person. firm Or corporation i'm
or foreign commerce under
any false OF deceptive name, but estab-1
lished trade names which are usual to
such products and which are not false
and deceptive and which shall be ap-
proved by the secretary of agriculture |
are permitted. The regulation on this |
subject provides that trade labels which |
are false or deceptive in any particular |
shall not be permitted, and that a meat |
food product, whether composed of one
Or more ingredients, shall not be named |
IN the trade label with a name stating |
Or purporting TO show that the said |
meat food product is a substance which |
IS not the principal ingredient con-
tanned therein, even though such
name be an established trade name.
These provisions in regard to labels
conform to the requirements of the
)Cre food law. II was stated at one
line that the provisions of the meat
Inspection law cOnf1icted with the pure
cod law. but this idea is not borne out
~ the regulations just issued
All stamps, labels and certificates
moving that meat and meat food prod
lets have been inspected and passed
Ire required to either be affixed by a
employe or TO be affixed by
IN employe of the establishment under
he personal supervision of a govern
nent employee.
Certificates Required.
Certificates are required for exports
# cattle, sheep, swine and goats, and
he meat and meat food products there
II and no vessel having on board any
UGH animal, meat or meat food prod
lets for export will be allowed to clear
~ the customs officers until the certi-
cate of the secretary of agriculture.
howing that the meat is sound, health
I'll, wholesome and fit for food. is pro-
uced.
Each establishment at which inspec-
ion is maintained will be given num-
er by which all its meats and meat
God products Will be known Estab-
shments having one or more branches
nay use the same number for all by
fixing a serial letter in connection
18th the number to differentiate the ,
roducts of the different branches. 5
For the purpose of enforcing the law
nd the regulations, inspectors and 9th
r government employees under the di-
ection of the inspector, must have ac-I
ess to establishments at all times by I
ay or night. whether the esta blish- !
tent be operated or not Each en-
lOye of the department. engaged in
leat inspection will wear a numbered [
adge for identification purposes.
The regulation directs attention To |