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Mr. Muir reminded the Magistrate that in 1903 Messrs. Lipton
were previously convicted for a similar offence at the same sausage
factory and were fined £25 and costs, and the learned Magistrate
(Mr. Cluer) now imposed the full penalty of £50 and twenty guineas
costs. This conviction, of course, concerns the actual seizure of
tuberculous meat which was being prepared with other meat for human
food, but I think it is my duty to point out to the Council that the
entire practice of gland stripping, and of receiving stripped carcases,
is open to grave criticism, and is a process which should not be
continued.
The Table on the following page shows the amount and character
of the food confiscated during 1905, which was 19 tons more than
in 1904. About 80 per cent. of the total meat surrendered was of
foreign origin (chiefly Dutch and American).