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Local Government Board—
Circular No. 1, dated 16th September, 1908, Unsound Food and Foreign
Meat.
Circular No. 2, dated 12th December, 1908, Foreign Meat.
Circular No. 3, dated 26th January, 1909, Foreign Meat.
Circular No. 4, dated 29th April, 1909, Foreign Meat.
Circular No. 5, dated 26th July, 1909, Unsound Food.
Circular No. 6, dated 30tn September, 1909, Foreign Meat.
Food Regulations—Circulars issued by Local Government Board.
Circular No. 1 is explanatory of the Public Health (Regulations as to
Food) Act, 1907, and was issued with the regulations made thereunder:—
(а) The Public Health (First Series) Unsound Food Regulations,
1908.
(b) The Public Health Foreign Meat Regulations, 1908.
Circular No. 2 defines more clearly what should be considered as boneless
meat and boxed meat.
Circular No. 3 approves certain official certificates in respect of foreign
meat, which consists of pork or other edible parts of the pig, which has been
subjected to inspection in the following countries:—
Denmark,
Netherlands.
Dominion of Canada,
Dominion of New Zealand,
It points out that the fact of an official certificate accompanying carcasses of
pigs or any other kind of imported pork does not exempt the meat from
liability to examination.
All meat which is imported in the form of scrap meat, even if officially
certified, should be dealt with in the manner prescribed by the regulations.
It also states that "edible parts of the pig" include edible offal, such as
pigs' tongues, kidneys, plucks, hearts, livers, and feet.
Circular No. 4 gives particulars of the new official certificate approved in
the case of pork imported from the Netherlands.