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12
Imported Food
Regulations.
Foreign Box
Beef and
Scraps.
The Regulations anticipated by the above Act
were duly drawn up and came into force on the ist
October, 1908. The Regulations are issued in two
series and apply throughout to imported foodstuffs.
The first series deal with imported foodstuffs generally,
and the second series with foreign boneless meat imported
in the form of scraps, trimmings, or other pieces
not sufficiently identifiable with definite parts of a
carcass, and which has not before importation been
made ready for human consumption in the form of a
sausage, or other prepared or manufactured articles of
food; with imported tripe, tongues, or kidneys to
which certain chemical preservatives have been
applied ; and with severed parts of a pig not prepared
before importation as bacon or ham, and not contained
in a package with an "official certificate" The
Regulations also deal with the prevention of importation
of carcasses of pigs from which the lymphatic
glands are absent thus preventing the detection of
signs of tuberculosis, and with severed parts of pigs
with the above mentioned "official certificate". The
'official certificate' is a certificate given by a competent
authority in the place of origin to the effect that the
animals were free from disease at the time of slaughter,
and the meat had been dressed, packed and prepared
with all needful precautions for the prevention of
danger arising to public health.
Authorities
affected. The Regulations are made to apply and to be
enforced by Port Sanitary Authorities, Riparian
Authorities, and the Customs. Other Authorities such
as Bethnal Green, are concerned only when required
by the Local Government Board to co-operate with