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MEAT AID FOOD INSPECTION.
Speacial attention has been paid to the question of Meat and
Food Inspection and the following diseased and unsound food has been
destroyed during the year.
1 Caroase of Beef. Tubercular.
154 libs of Beef.
12 libs of Corned Beef.
18 Caroases of Pigs. Swine Fever and Pneumonia.
84 libs of Cod.
The Swine Fever occurred in a herd of pedigree pigs and on the
advice of an Inspector of the Ministry of Agriculture the owner caused
the whole herd to be slaughtered. I was therefore called in to
examine the carcases and pass any that were fit for food. 4 small
pigs had previously died. In addition to a sow affected with the
disease, the pigs condemned, which were mostly small, were found to be
affected with Pneumonia. Twenty-four pigs were passed as fit for
food and sent to the London Meat Markets. I communicated with the
Chief Meat Inspector informing him of the circumstances and asking
him to make a final examination before the carcases were placed
on the market which he did.
The new Meat Regulations which came into operation on April 1st,
1925 provide for the notification of the time and place of the
Slaughter of animals with certain exceptions, special provisions
dealing with Shops, Stores, Transport and Handling of Meat, and hygienic
methods to be adopted in Slaughter Houses and powers ere given which
may be said to provide a real step forward in the production of
clean meat.