Meat Handling In N.Z. “Appalling”
(New Zealand Press Association) HAMILTON, March 16. The standard of hygiene in New Zealand butchers’ shops is “appalling,” an American meat packer said last night. Hygiene also needs improving in freezing works, he said.
Mr Don Smith, of Los Angeles, owns one of the biggest meat processing plants on the west coast of the United States. He has been in New Zealand for five days, during which he has bought veal and beef totalling 1 million dollars for shipment to his plant. Hygiene in both the back shop and display areas of butchers’ shops is shockingly below standard, he said. Exposed Carcases He deplored the New Zealand practice of hanging exposed carcases and displaying uncovered meats in shop windows.
“This is not considered sanitary in other advanced countries throughout the world, and New Zealand should respect her place in the world meat market and adopt more sanitary methods,” he said.
The free handling of meat by butchers and freezing works employees was also criticised by Mr Smith.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31011, 17 March 1966, Page 3
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