Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-07-10
MEAT PRODUCTS
ARE WHOLESOME
According to Re-
port of Joint
Committee.
ENGLISH PLANTS ARE FILTHY
Says Inspector of Factories
In Annual Report---Dis.
gusting Methods.

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of the well known firms at the stock
yards are wholesome and proper for
! food"
The foregoing may be accepted as
crystalli2ation of the greatly dis
cussed report of the joint committee
representing the Illinois Manufactur
ers association and the Chicago Com
mercial association on conditions al
the packing houses, which was made
public Friday.
The report covers period of two
weeks beginning on Monday, June 1S,
during which the committee inspected
conditions in fourteen packing houses.
Summary Of Comments.
On many points the inquiry showed
conditions satisfactory Some of the
comments on methods may be thus
summarized.
Night cleaning system is ample.
Carcasses of sheep, cattle, and hogs
never touch floors.
Ante.mortem examination less i'm
poltant than post-mortem.
Preserved meat can be spoiled by
improper handling.
Federal inspection laws sufficiently
rigid
Condemnation of young carcasses
too strict.
Yards not injurious to live animals
confined therein.
Cattle inspection rigid.
Hog inspection reasonably efficient.
Sheen inspection less thorough.
Cripples and "downers" sometimes
wholesome.
Some Sanitation Suggestions.
The experts made recommendations
touching sanitation in brief as fol-
lows:
Abolition Of old sections Of all
plants.
Obedience of bosses to anti,spitting
rule.
More and modern toilet rooms.
Impervious material for killing
floors.
Better light and ventilation for cut
ting and trimming rooms.
installation of fly screens.
Workmen's clothing should be clean
ed daily.
Requiring workmen to wash hands.
Hospital for sick animals advised
May improve on Method.
AS TO methods in vogue, improve
ments urged were in short as follows:
Preservatives should be subjected
to further inquiry
Supervision on all materials used
for canned goods.
Cleanly methods in handling picked
meats.
Scientific tests for canned goods.
Reform in methods of utilizing un'
nutritive meat.
Correct and explicit labels on cans.
Cleaner method of handling sausage
meat.
Responsibility for any meat unit Tor
human consumptid J that may in the
future get into interstate or foreign
commerce is placed squarely with the
federal authorities. In this declaration
the committee of experts represents
that it has examined the meat inspec'
ton bill recently passed by Congress
and finds that it's provisions are SO
stringent that government inspectors
are to blame if any unwholesome meat
is passed.
Work Of Experts Reviewed.
In presenting the report of its ex-
perts the committee states;
ITO the President Of the Illinois
Manufacturers Association and the
Chicago Commercial Association
"Sirs-Your committee appointed to
investigate the packing industries OF
Chicago and to report on the whole
someness of the product, beg leave to
report:
'"The committee from each associa'
ton have acted jointly throughout the
I investigation, together with board
of experts.
In making the investigation daily
visits to the yards were made for a
period of two weeks, each visit occu
pying from ten to fifteen hours. Mem
bers Of each committee accompanied
the experts at all times, and in every
part of the examination. The result
of this investigation is set forth fully
and in detail in the report OF the board
of experts to the joint committee
which is herewith attached and made
a part of this report.
"That board of experts Of the
character of those mentioned with pro
| fessional ideals and guided and influ
enced as they state by an 'esthetie
sense which 'embodies something Of
necessity and something more Of lux
ury, should find the product whole
some,' the yards generally clean, and
the inspection efficient, seems tc
your committee to cover the situation
GAS a result of this investigation we
ourselves have no hesitancy in stat
ing that the meat products of the vel
known firms at the yards are whole