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Certificate of the Municipality of Guatemala City in respect of meat
and meat products.
The Certificate is in the form of a stamp which will be
impressed upon the meat or package containing the meat or meat
product and will apply only if the stamp is clearly impressed on the
meat or the container as the case may be.
Circular No.141/47 dated 10th September, 1947, from the
Ministry of Health authorises the recognition of an Official
Certificate of the United States of America in respect of meat and
meat products.
The Official Certificate is in the form of a label and
recognition will apply only if the label is securely affixed to the
meat or to the package containing the meat product and if the label
has not in any other cirumcstances or on any other occasion been
used as an Official Certificate.
This label supercedes that referred to in the Notice
published in the London Gazette of the 6th August, 1937.
Circular No.157/47 dated 29th October, 1947. issued by the
Ministry of Health, reads as follows:-
"I am directed by the Minister of Health to refer to PartlX of
the Schedule to Circular 1675, dated 24th March, 1938, and to
state that he has caused to be inserted in the London Gazette of
the 10th October, 1947, a Notice revoking his Notice published
in the London Gazette of the 15th day of March, 1938, in so far
as it relates to the recognition of an Official Certificate in
respect of the importation of meat and meat products from the
International Settlement, Shanghai, into England and Wales".
The Notice reads as follows
"The Minister of Health in pursuance of his powers under
Article 2(2) of the above-mentioned Regulations hereby gives
notice that his notice published in the London Gazette of the
15th day of March, 1938, in so far as it relates to the
recognition of an Official Certificate for the purposes of the
said Regulations in respect of the importation of meat and meat
products from the International Settlement, Shanghai, into
Englard and Wales, is hereby revoked".
VII. FOOD INSPECTION,
The total amount of foodstuffs seized and condemned for
human consumption and either reconditioned or disposed of for
animal consumption or for industrial purposes under guarantee or
destroyed was 1,094 tons as compared with 630 tons in 1946 and 720
tons in 1945.

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