BONELESS BEEF TRADE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 415, 26 January 1909, Page 2

BONELESS BEEF TRADE.

_The Scotch ; correspondent of ,tW "Meat . Trades' Journal" wrote recently as follows . \\ e were told' some time back, when the wholcsalo condemnations of boneless beef. Were going on in Glasgow, thai'after January 1 the importation of this class of - beef would '•" ?e prohibited. Mr. Trotter was the authority given for the statement, aiid that our ; masterful inspector.did not sneak without the book is proved by the regulations issued :by. >H°, ~*>™*\ Government 'Board last: •' week;, g^sp^.heing. the. sole, port of.'entry fOrbcotland lias_"liatrirally'a strong (interest iri. - the importation, aiid inspection- of all food-" stuffs, arid hot very long ago the Gorporationj . on the l of the Healths Committee, asked that iridH'. power' should, be'':■ S Ton- < Und f m - Publio P* lth Ac' "J 0 : ■»!* only i to.deal with imported S" ii u t also, ivith carcasses.killcdin GlasS i , fi 'f Shterhotises. For'vinstancOi they ' , asked that power be given tbemto hiakethe i.reteiiiiary surgeon the- executive olBder;. to u of meiit,: and >to ; ba enabled to enforce their..view 'that the I removal [o the inner-lining, or serous mem--rt r r a S e ii „ car6as > b .e absolutely forbidden.' ■WelljJ'the Corporation have not been indulged in these loo—but' the regulations under the headihg'bf 'Foreign Meat .will, gladden .theV.hearts-ibf ".'What ' Iters ■.-in the: Councih They.arei very string gent in: dealing: with boneless beef which' will only be, allowed entry' 'in' such shape and ia such eohditidhasio afford sufficient-means' of identification, With: definite parts .61 'a : I carcass..' .Although - this does : hot 'amount\ to prohibitionj:it-will;.certaihly exclude'hine-/' tenths of the i dlass of :£cbds.that was beihc dumped hi Glasgowj'arid ; so Ifr. Trotter *aS ; •?£ t -:.? 0 4F astray.ftlieii lie Spoke, of- proliibi--. « on - .'The class of-goods he. was handling; at • the time, has been.prohibited,- and iibhe'-tbo soon:.-.-. Whatever .boneless Beef'we 'hiay get : -how; will very.likely cost us- mofe f -but'-then-we_need.hot be. ashamed of it.".. .' : ;-..- .. .The stipulation as to the stjde of'packing ! teems to ••-suggest. that theUpieces Vmiist -be frozen first, and bdtfed afterwards!; instead" of ' being pressed into the boxes first "and 'then' ■ frozen; as ,is JiowV the .practice:. -.If-this? be : the, intention of-the it : is-uhv: ' ':X''i2, at ' tlie I '' l^w - Zealand exporters -can : profitably . c'dhiply.v:.-.; ;\ :; ■-> .>.- --."-t■'•£";■