DISEASED MEAT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 11, 14 January 1929, Page 7

DISEASED MEAT.

FEARS IN BRITAIN. More Rigorous Inspection Of Imported Carcases. NEW ZEALAND EXEMPT. (United Service.) (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDOX, January 13. The ''Weekly Dispatch" asserts that bmithfield is seriously disturbed by the progress of an almost worldwide disease in sheep which is affecting the meat imported into Britain. Great quantities of Australian and South American mutton were condemned by Smithfield's system of inspection which has been altered to combat the menace.

Every carcase of mutton and lamb from Australia and South America has to be additionally and individually inspected. New Zealand is exempt. Special examinations of the disease show that it occurs in the lymphatic glands and is deep seated in the shoulders.

Mr. Will Thorne, M.P. (Lab., Plaistow) is raising the question in the House of Commons. He says that he is dissatisfied with the inspection in the countries of origin. It is not sufficiently rigorous. The dMger seems to be glossed over, although the disease menaces health, particularly in the poorer districts where diseased meat is too frequently brazenly exposed.

The origin of the disease, which is not tubercular, is believed to lie in. the soil.