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Products described as mess pork, salted pigs' tongues in brine, pigs' spareribs,
and pigs' feet in brine may at the present time be regarded as coming
within the definition of Foreign Meat Unclassed, even when not accompanied
by an official certificate.
It also states that with a view to facilitating the examination of frozen
carcasses of pigs, the parts about the throat should be well exposed by the use
of skewers before and after freezing.
It also gives instructions for the packing of frozen offal in such a manner
that the contents should not only be easily identified but also inspected.
Circular No. 5, with a view of obtaining uniformity at the ports concerned,
gives specimen forms of Notices in writing, which are necessary in connection
with the procedure under certain articles in the (First Series) Unsound Food
Regulations.
Circular No. 6 was issued with Regulations amending Articles I. of the
Foreign Meat Regulations, and recognises the official certificates of Belgium,
Victoria, and New South Wales.
Article I. as amended:—
Public Health (Foreign Meat) Amending Regulations, 1909.
September 27th, 1909.
Article I,—Article I. of the Public Health (Foreign Meat) Regulations,
1908, shall be revoked, and those Regulations shall be altered so that they
shall have effect, with the substitution for the Article so revoked of the
following Article, namely:—
"Article I.— In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—
"(a) Words importing the masculine gender include females;
"(b) Words in the singular include the plural, and words in the
plural include the singular;
"(c) Expressions referring to writing include references to printing
and other modes of representing or reproducing words in a visible form;
"(d) The expression 'cattle' includes a bull, cow, ox, heifer, calf,
ram, ewe, wether, goat, and kid;
"(e) The expression 'pig' includes a boar, sow, and hog;
"(f) The expression 'meat' means pork, the flesh of cattle, or any
edible part of a pig or of cattle, or a substance, compound, material, or
article of which pork or the flesh of cattle, or any other edible part of
a pig or of cattle, is an ingredient;