MEDICAL INSPECTIONS FOR FREEZING WORKERS

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30575, 19 October 1964, Page 11

MEDICAL INSPECTIONS FOR FREEZING WORKERS

Within the next two or three yean every freezing worker in New Zealand would probably have to undergo compulsory medical inspections every two months, said the general secretary of the New Zealand Freezing Workers’ Association (Mr F. E. McNulty. The workers’ medical inspections, he said, were almost certain to be introduced to comply with the new hygiene regulations being brought into all New Zealand freezing works. Mr McNulty said that regular compulsory medical examinations of freezing force in France, Sweden and Denmark. “They not only inspect the animal carcases in those countries but they inspect the workers in the industry, too,” he said.

“It is a question of our adopting what already applies overseas.”

Mr McNulty said that every freezing works in New Zealand would ultimately have laboratories where diseased meat could be studied. As part of the £4m changeover to the new export killing regulations, he said, the principal freezing works in Canterbury had already hired veterinarians from Denmark and Canada. “These veterinarians inspect everything,” said Mr McNulty. “Yesterday, for instance, on one job a chap put a bit of kerosene on to grease the rail. The veterinarian said that if the kerosene was not removed the freezing works would be stopped straight away. “They really apply the regulations strictly.”

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