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private slaughterhouses.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1955.
SLAUGHTERHOUSES ACT. 1958.
SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS ACT. 1958.
Your inspectors maintain a high percentage of meat inspection during
the course of the six days per week of slaughtering, Friday being the only
exception.
The general slaughtering programme each day is that adult bovines are
slaughtered early in the day, followed by the "smalls" and in this group,
calves are usually last in the days work.
Thus 100% inspection of adult bovines is maintained and a fair proportion
of the "smalls" are inspected during normal office hours of working
with some late work and with Saturday and Sunday working. If 100% meat
inspection is to be the order of the day then this will mean that one
inspector will be needed six days per week from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. generally
unless there is some control by regulation, of the hours of slaughtering,
and this is being resisted by the trade. An alternative has been suggested
of making charges for inspection. If this is to be of any use to the
local authority it must be sufficient to pay for, or nearly pay for, the
services of the additional staff which will be necessary. However, discussions
continue and one hopes that some reasonable solution will be found.
The majority of the condemned meat and offals is taken away by a
reputable firm for manufacture into useful by-products, e.g. fertilisers etc.
Total weight of carcase meat condemned:-
Bovine 844 lbs.
Ovine 51 lbs.
Porcine 140 lbs.
1 ,035 lbs.
Total weight of offals condemned 12,135 lbs.