The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-24
MEAT
SALE REGULATED
PROF. E. F. LA0D ISSUES WARN
ING AGAINST SALE OF MEAT
AFFECTED BY DIsEAsE-CAN BE
SOLD BUT MUST BE PLAINLY
LABELED AS DISEASED MEAT.

Prof. E. F. Laid in his recent bulle-
tin made the following comment on a
law passed by the last session of the
legislature that was passed with the
emergency clause attached n is
now a law:
In the past it has been a common
practice to sell the meat off diseased
animals or animals that ave been
condemned for sue diseases as tuber-
culosis, and the buyer had no means
Of knowing whether or not such meat
~ an affected animal.
At the last session of the legislature
there was enacted a law intended 10
regulate the handling and sale of meat
IN such diseased animals or of milk
! from these same animals. The pres
ent new law does not prevent the Of
fering of meat from diseased animals
| for sale but it mus be plainly marked
as affected meat. This law is IN
harmony with the requirements of our
food law, in that it does not prohibit
the sale of the product, but make II
possible for the purchaser thereof TO
know that the meat he secures a
come from an animal affected with
| some disease but which has been in
speCted and still deemed safe Tor hu-
man consumption.
The essential features Of this law
le given as follows:
Meats and MiIk-LabeIing Of.
Senate Bill No. 315-Bonzer.
Section zoos of the revised codes OF
1905, as amended by chapter 162 Of the
session laws of 1909, is hereby amend
ed and ~re-enacted to read as follows:
Section zoos. Duty of owners OF
Stock. Animals in Transit. Meats to
Be Labeled. The following regulations
shall be observed in all cases of dis
ease covered by this article.
First: 1t shall be unlawful to sell,
give away, or in any name part with
any animal affected with or suspected
of being affected with an contagious
or infectious disease, with such eXcep-
ton as shall be provided for by the
rules and regulations Of the livestock
sanitary board. n in case of any
animal that may be known to AVE
been affected with or exposed to any
such disease within one year or prior
to such disposal, due notice of the fact
shall be given in writing to the person
receiving the animal.
Second: 1t shall be unlawful to kill
for butcher purposes any such ami
mails, or to sell, give away, or use any
part of it or it's milk, or to remove any
part of the skin, with such exceptions
as shall be provided for by the rules
and regulations of the livestock sani-
| tsrv board. Provided that in all cases
| where, under the rules n regulations
of the livestock sanitary board of this
| state, it shall be lawful to sell, barter,
or give away for human consumption
the meat from any anima affected
| with contagious or infectious diseases,
there shall be placed upon each quar-
ter of the animal so affected in at least
| ten separate places a stamp or label,
| clearly showing the words affected
| meat. No meat from any affected or
! diseased animal shall be placed upon
| the same block or table on which meat
| not so affected Is handled. Failure to
| observe these provisions shall be a
misdemeanor and on conviction shall
| be punished by a fine Of not less than
500 or be imprisoned in the county
| jaiI for a term Of not less than thirty
| days nor more than one year. 1t shall
be the duty of the owner, agent, or
person having in charge any animal
Infected or suspected of being infect
ed with any contagious disease, imme-
diately to confine the same in a safe
place, isolated from all other animals
and with all necessary restrictions to
prevent the dissemination of the dis
ease, until the arrival of an accredited
| agent of the livestock sanitary board.
Section 2. Repeal. All acts and
parts of acts in conflict with this act
are hereby repealed.
Section 3. Emergency. An emery
ency is hereby declared to exist and
this act shall take effect and be in