TREATING MEAT WITH ANTIBIOTICS
AMERICAN EXPERT VISITS NEW ZEALAND (New Zealand Press Aisociation) AUCKLAND, February 16. i The use of antibiotics to prevent I deterioration of meat would be most' beneficial to New Zealand if it prepackaged for export, said Dr. F. E. Deatherage, of Ohio State University, i on his arrival at Whenuapai from I the United States last night. Dr. Deatherage described this pro- I cess as giving pre-packaged meat a “built-in” protection against spoiling, j He hopes to be able to treat a small shipment of New Zealand chilled beef with the antibiotic process because so far very little work had been , in testing its efficiency with!
■ phis type of meat when long jour- . ne v ’s were involved. . I Dr. Deatherage said that the anti- , biotic used—acronise—was recently I approved bv the United States Food land Drug Administration. i Dr. Deatherage will be joined on i Monday by Mr J. W. Pfeiffner. of the American Cvanamid Company, which developed the antibiotic used in the ■ ; American experiment. They will be ; in New Zealand for about two weeks i j before leaving for Sydney.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27896, 18 February 1956, Page 10
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