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Fresh carcasses of pigs shall not, in any case, be passed for export
before they are quite cooled, and after cooling have been found perfectly
firm and dry.
In accordance with supplement of the 19th of January this year to
Instruction of the 15th of August, 1903, fresh carcasses of pigs, parts of
such and offal shall not be passed for export to Great Britain, when they
are produced from pigs in which or in the organs of which is found the
smallest deposit of a tuberculous nature. Neither shall be passed for
export to Great Britain carcasses of pigs and oxen from which any part
of the membranes of the chest or abdomen has been removed.
The Veterinary Surgeons authorised to inspect meat for export will
carefully note these instructions and act accordingly.
The 18th of February, 1905.
OLE HANSEN,
Minister of Agriculture.
The following is a translation of the Danish law of the 24th April, 1903, on
the control of the export of fresh and lightly salted meat, &c.:—
Section 1.—The Government shall have power to take the necessary
steps to prevent the exportation from the country of fresh and lightly
salted meat as well as offal of horses, cattle, sheep, goats, and swine, when
it has become putrid or is derived from animals suffering from disease,
making it unfit for human food, or from animals emaciated so as to make
their flesh unfit for food.
Section 2.—Meat and offal which shall be found totally unfit for
human food by the Inspectors appointed under this Law to control the
export shall under necessary precautions be rendered useless for such
purpose: according to regulations to be issued by the Minister of
Agriculture.
Section 3.—It shall not be lawful for any person in this country to
offer for sale or to sell as human food meat and offal of dead horses, cattle,
sheep, goats, and swine, fresh or in any way prepared. Such meat and
offal shall not be exported from this country in any form whatsoever
which would allow it to be used as human food.
Section 4.—It shall not be lawful for any person in this country to
offer for sale or to sell as human food meat and offal of horses, cattle,
sheep, goats, and swine which before slaughtering are found to be
diseased, or which after slaughtering show signs of marked diseased
conditions, nor shall such meat and offal be exported from this country
in any form whatever which would allow it to be used as human food,
unless a registered Veterinary Surgeon shall certify that the meat and
offal is fit for human food, according to regulations to be issued by the
Minister of Agriculture.