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B.—Qualifications of Meat Inspectors.
5. We recommend that in future no person be permitted to act
as a meat inspector until he has passed a qualifying examination,
before such authority as may be prescribed by the Local Government
Board (or Board of Agriculture), on the following subjects
(a.) The law of meat inspection, and such byelaws, regulations,
&c., as may be in force at the time he presents himself for
examination.
(b.) The names and situations of the organs of the body.
(c.) Signs of health and disease in animals destined for food,
both when alive and after slaughter.
(d.) The appearance and character of fresh meat, organs, fat,
and blood, and the conditions rendering them, or preparations
from them, fit or unfit for human food.
C.—Tuberculosis in Animals intended for Food.
6. We recommended that the Local Government Board be
empowered to issue instructions from time to time for the guidance
of meat inspectors, prescribing the degree of tubercular disease which,
in the opinion of the Board, should cause a carcase, or part thereof,
to be seized.
Pending the issue of such instructions we are of opinion that
the following principles should be observed in the inspection of
tuberculous carcases of cattle :
(a.) When there is a miliary tuberculosis of
both lungs
(b.) When tuberculous lesions are present
on the pleura and peritoneum
(c.) When tuberculous lesions are present
in the muscular system, or in the"
lymphatic glands embedded in or
between the muscles
(d.) When tuberculous lesions exist in any
part of an emaciated carcase
The entire carcase
and all the
organs may be
seized.