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In addition to meat and offal, large quantities of diseased and
decomposed poultry, game and rabbits, unsound tinned foods,
butter, cheese, eggs, fish, fruit and vegetables are annually seized
by or surrendered to the Meat Inspector.
Disposal of Condemned Meat.
The condemned meat and offals are collected daily by the
Smithfield Animal Products, Stanwell, Staines, Middlesex, and
taken to their works at Court Farm, Stanwell.
The site is an open one of some 34 acres, and is excellently
conducted without any nuisance.
Bone meal, meat meal, meat and bone meal, and tallow is
manufactured from the materials transported to the works. These
products are used for soaps, candles, fertilisers, and pig and poultry
food.
The Public Health (Imported Food) Regulations, 1937.
During the year these regulations came into force and by reason
of the fact that the Mount Pleasant Post Office Depot is a Customs
Port, Finsbury Borough Council has certain duties to carry out in
conjunction with H.M. Customs and Excise in dealing with certain
meat and meat products imported in contravention of the law.
The meat products chiefly dealt with are animal casings, i.e., cleaned
animal intestines, used as sausage casings. It is required by the
regulations that such goods when imported shall bear an "official
certificate" of the country of origin. These "official certificates"
are certificates granted by the exporting country with the consent
of the Ministry of Health after the Ministry has made an enquiry
and has satisfied itself as to the satisfactory standard of meat inspection
in that country. There are many countries which cannot grant
these official certificates, viz., India, Iran, Egypt, China (with the
exception of the Shanghai International Settlement), etc., yet casings
find their way here from such countries through the post, in many
instances as much as 22 lbs. weight being imported in one consignment.
Many of the parcels, however, are small and evidently
"samples" of casings. Casings are offered for sale in London by
"sample" and the bulk casings are held at such "free" ports as
Hamburg and Danzig. These bulk casings are of unknown origin,
and without "official certificates" they cannot enter Gt. Britain.
As no provision has been made in the Regulations for "samples,"
which samples are quite capable of being used for human food, and