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The more thorough examination of meat in Australia and other countries of export
should lessen the work of your staff, and if the results of inspection show that the
inspection in Australia is reliable and satisfactory, it may not be necessary to examine
all the meat arriving in this country, but only a percentage, merely to check the
efficiency of the examination in Australia.
The following Instructions have been Issued in Australia bt the Commonwealth
regarding the supervision and inspection of meat for export.
Animals are to be inspected both ante and post-mortem.
No carcass of beef or pork shall be examined if the visceræ of the same are not
dentifiable.
Any carcass submitted for inspection with any lymph glands removed, or the
pleura or peritoneum stripped, shall be rejected.
Condemnation of the whole carcass is necessary in the presence of any of the
following conditions:—
(a) Any general disease such as anthrax, blackleg, pyaemia, septicaemia, or
tetanus.
(b) Definite emaciation.
(c) Anaemia, if pronounced (flesh pale, soft, watery).
(d) Signs of marked fevering of flesh.
(e) Cloudy swelling or fatty degeneration (unless definitely localized).
(f) Redwater —if the flesh is in any way abnormal.
(g) Jaundice.
(h) Uraemia—Urinus odour or strong sexual odour.
(i) Cystic parasites (cysticercus cellulosae or trichina spiralis).
(j) Immaturity.
(k) Very advanced pregnancy or parturition (within 10 days).
(l) Inflammation of the lungs, pleura, peritoneum, intestines, uterus, pericardium
or endocardium.
(m) Swine fever or hog cholera.
(n) Malignant catarrh.
(o) Multiple abscess (in sheep).
Condemnation for Tuberculosis.
(1) The condemnation of the whole carcass is necessary in the presence of any of
the following conditions:—
(a) Tuberculosis in any degree in a pig.
(b) Any emaciated carcass showing tuberculosis in any degree.