The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-09
TO INSPECT ALL
DAIRY PRODUCTS
Committee Recommends w. J.
FraZier'S Pure Food 0rdi-
nance for Passage.
MEAT REGULATIONS ALSO
CONDITION OF SLAUGHTER
HOUSES CONSIDERED.

Walter J. Frazier. city pure food in
spector. after laboring for weeks has at
last induced the sanitary committee of
the city council to take action on the
new milk ordinance which he prepared.
The committee has decided to recommend
it favorably to the council and it viii
come up for passage on Monday even
ing.
The ordinance is a step in the direc-
ton of pure food in dairy products, for
inspection of all milk and cattle, and pro
vides that all dealers in milk. whether
they have any place of business in the
city or not. must secure permits before
milk can be sold within the city lin
its. The names of the dairymen from
whom milk is obtained must be kept
posted in the stores of all who sell milk
1t provides for the use of the government
score system, and all diaries must have
a rating of 45 by this system. Milk must
be delivered in sealed bottles and must
be sold at a temperature Of % degrees
Fahrenheit.
Butter must be Of standard purity, and
TewOrked butter must be marked Proc
ess Butter" with the name of the max
er. Skinned milk must be SO marked.
Visogen and similar substances are pro-
hibited.
Ice cream must contain y per cent of
milk fat. and in this delectable product
only three ounces of gelatin will be al
lowed to ten gallons of ice cream. There
are many and various regulations for
the care and storing of milk and all its
products, and every dairyman must have
a certificate of the health of his cows
from the state veterinarian or United
States government Inspector.
Meats to Be Inspected.
The committee did not stop with the
sale of milk, but will also recommend
a very stringent ordinance egulating the
sale of meats. The city attorney was
instructed 10 draw an ordinance reQuir-
ing government inspection of all meats
sold by the United States government
and all meats sold in the city to bear
the government stamp.
This followed a long hearing by the
committee on the condition of certain
slaughter houses within the city limits
or within the mile limit within which
! the city has jurisdiction by statute.
HepwOrth & Son. who have slaugh-
ter house on Eighth West between Fifth
! and Sixth North. under under fire. A
number OF the neighbOrS were present
and complained OF the Hepworth place.
which has been in existence for thirty
years under permit from the city. The
prOtestants were Mr.. and Mrs. Max
Blanck. Mrs. Isaac LangtOn and Mrs.
John N. Mills. who we're ACCOMPANIED oy
a number of others.
1t was finally decided that Hepworth
will lose mis- permit if he does not keep
his premises clean, and it was left to
the health commissioner to see that he
does.
y. Model, the Utah Packing company,
i. J. Nlpper and Radon < Williams,
against whom there are also complaints
I had not been notified to be present and
their cases went over for a week.
Among those present at the meeting
were Herman Harms, state chemist and
DR.. D. NJ. WOollen, government inspec-
tor at the IntermOuntain Packing COM
pany's plant who volunteered to show
the committee the system Of govern
ment inspection at that plant when they
start out to visit the slaughter houses
against which complaints have been
made.