The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-08-03
RIGID INSPECTION
OF meat PLANTS
REGULATIONS ISSUED BY SECRE-
TARY WILSON ARE MOST
STRINGENT.
Packing Houses Must Be Clean in
Every Particular and Animals to
Be Slaughtered Perfectly Healthy
in Order to Be Entitled to Labels.

Washington, July 28.-Secretary
Wilson Friday made public the regu-
lations under the new law governing
the inspection of meat products for
interstate and foreign trade. They do
not, however, cover the subject of in
terstate transportation of meat or the
microscopic inspection of pork for ex-
port. Regulations on these subjects,
it was stated, will be issued later.
The general regulations provide
that the scope of the inspection shall
cover all slaughtering, 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 these exempted classes are re-
quired to submit to the secretary an
application for exemption. All ami
mails, carcasses and meat food prod
ucts will be subjected to rigid inspec-
ton. Reinspection will be had wher-
ever necessary.
Lighting and Ventilation.
Sanitation 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 impracticable, they must be
washed, scraped or otherwise rem
dered sanitary.
All trucks, trays, chutes, platforms,
racks, tables, knives, saws, cleavers
and all utensils and machinery used in
handling meats must be cleansed
daily.
Clothing of Employees.
Employees must wear outer clothing
of a material that is easily cleansed
and made sanitary. All toilet rooms,
urinals and dressing rooms are re-
CURED to be entirely separate from
apartments in which carcasses are
dressed or meats and meat food prod
ucts are prepared. Managers Of es-
adjustments will not be permitted to
employ any person affected with tu-
berculosis in any of the departments
where carcasses are dressed, meats
handled or meat food products pre-
pared.
Butchers who dress diseased car
casses are required to cleanse and
disinfect their hands and implements
before touching healthy carcasses.
Reports on Sanitation.
Weekly reports 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 bureau of animal industry at
Washington. But if any unsanitary
conditions are detected by any de-
partment employe, such conditions
must be reported Immediately to the
inspector in charge, who will report
to Washington.
The provision relating to dyes,
chemicals and preservatives is strin-
gent.
New Inspection Rules.
The inspection of animals before
slaughter, designated in the regula-
tons as the ante norton inspection,
is changed to conform to the new law,
and to give the secretary OF agricul-
ture authority to require that all ami
mails suspected of disease on this ante
norton inspection shall be slaugh-
tered separately and apart from all