Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-27
Secretary of Agriculture Issues
Regulations Under
New Law
PROVISIONS ARE STRINGENT
Utmost Care Must Be Taken by Pack
ers in the Matter of Sanitation and
Cleanliness in Packing Establish
ments-Use of Harmful Preserva
tives Prohibited.

Washington. July 2.-Secretary
Wilson today made public the regu-
lations under the new law governing
of meat products for inter-
state and foreign trade. They do not,
however, cover the subject of inter-
state transportation of meat or mi
inspection of pork for ex-
port Regulations on these subjects
will be issued later. The regulations
issued today are stringent thruout and
are in line with the best authorities
on the subjects Of sanitation, preserv-
atives, dyes, chemicals and condemna-
ton of diseased carcasses. The gen.
eral regulations provide the scope Of
inspection shall cover all slaughtering,
packing, meat canning, sailing, rem
dering or similar establishments whose
meats or meat food products, in whole
or in part, enter into interstate or for
eign commerce, unless exempted from
by the secretary Of agri-
culture. Under the law, the only es-
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 APP
plication for exemption. All animals,
carcasses and meat food products will
be subjected to rigid inspection. Re-
will be had wherever nee
essary.
Sanitation regulations require that
establishments in which animals are
slaughtered or meats and meat food
products are prepared, cured. packed,
stored or handled to be suitably light
ed and ventilated and to be maintained
in a sanitary condition. All work in
such establishments must be performed
in a cleanly and sanitary manner AH
portions of the building must be white
washed or painted, or where this is i'm
practicable, they must be washed,
scraped or otherwise rendered sani-
tary and old floors and old equipment
which cannot be made sanitary, must
be removed and replaced by suitable
materials. All utensils and machinery
used in handling meats must be thor
oughly cleansed daily. Employees must
wear outer clothing of material easily
cleansed and made sanitary, all toilet
rooms, urinals and dressing rooms are
required to be entirely separate from
apartments in which carcasses are
dressed or meats and meat food pro-
ducts are prepared. Managers will not
be permitted to employ any person af-
fected with tuberculosis in any Depart
ment. Butchers who dress diseased
carcasses are required to cleanse and
disinfect their hands and Implements
before touching healthy carcasses En-
ployes who are unclean and careless OF
person will not be allowed to handle
meats. Weekly reports on sanitation
are to be made by employees in charge
of various departments to the inspec-
tor In charge, who must report weekly
to the chief of bureau in animal indus
try at Washington.
Preservatives.
The provision relating to dyes
chemicals and preservatives is string
ent. No meat or meat food product for
interstate commerce shall contain any
substance which lessons it's whole
nor any drug, chemical or
dye unless specifically provided for by
federal statute or any preservative
other than common salt. sugar, wood,
smoke, vinegar, pure spices, and pend
ing for further inquiry. saltpetre,
Meats and meat food pro-
ducts for export may contain
in proportion which
do not conflict with the laws
Of the foreign country to which they
are exported, but all meats and meat
food products, so prepared for export
must be treated and kept in compart-
ments and establishments separate and
apart from those in which meats and
meat food products are prepared for
interstate commerce, especially labelled
and certified, stamped with the word
Such meats may not enter
domestic trade under any circum-
Stances Inspection of animals before
slaughter is changed to conform with
the new law, and to give the secretary
IF agriculture authority to require all
animals suspected of disease on this
ante-mortem inspection shall be
slaughtered separately and apart from
all other animals, under careful sup
ervision of federal inspectors.