DISEASED MUTTON.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 11, 14 January 1929, Page 10

DISEASED MUTTON.

N.Z. EXPORTS NOT AFFECTED.

PRECAUTIONS JUSTIFIED.

NO CAUSE FOR ALARM

As reported on another page of this issue, large quantities of Australian and South American mutton have been condemned in London on account of disease of the lymphatic glands. A reassuring part of the message is the statement that New Zealand meat is exempt from the stringent regulations framed to safeguard against the importation of meat which might be affected. Interviewed to-day, Mr. W. T. Collins, district superintendent of the Departof Agriculture, emphasised the fact that special precautions are taken in every New Zealand abattoir and freezing works to ensure that lymphatic-ally diseased meat shall not be parsed either for consumption in the Dominion or for export. He explained that the disease — "lympho-adenitis," to give ite correct name —i s a ewelling and infection of glands in the shoulder, the legs, and other parts of the shoop's anatomy, and that occasionally it occurs in a deepseated gland in the shoulder which cannot be detected by superficial examination, but is quickly discovered by an expert veterinarian. Some breeds of sheep are morea susceptible than others to lvmpho-adenitis. Cases are rare in the North Island, and Mr. Collins was able to give the reassurance that there is no cause for alarm.