BLOOM ON LAMBS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 24, 27 July 1929, Page 13

BLOOM ON LAMBS

RESEABCH WORK GOES ON

Research into frozen meat problems is strougly supported by the Meat Board. It reports that tho various ireezing-worJcs in this Dominion are now handling practically double tho quantity of lambs for export as compared with pro-war days. In the handling of such a perishable product it is highly essential to keep paco with latest methods hi respect to freezing, storing, and in the various links of transit from freez-ing-works to market. "Some time a K o various complaints wero received in rcspoct to the unsatisfactory bloom on certain consignments of lambs shipped from tins Dominion when displayed on huuthnclcl, and it is satisfactory to note that there is now a marked "improvement. It was arranged at the last couierence of refrigerating engineers that tho board should conduct further tests uurmg the season, and these are now being carried out. Arrangements have also been made with tho Cambridge Low remperaluro Research Station, England to carry out certain tests in rcfrigera-

-Experiments carried out by the board in pre-cooling of lamba after slaughter show that tho pl ac i ng of £ mbs into tue freezing chambers threa to our hours after slaughter improves the bloom, and so far as these tests have progressed they tend to indicate that by this method more of the original weight is retained than if lambs are Lett o'lt all night on a cooliug-room wind aUtl possibly exPosod to drying

Besides tests being carried out at Cambridge the board has made arrangements with Sir William B. Hardy FES (chairman, Food Investigation Board); of the Low Temperature Research Station Cambridge, for Dr. A. J. M. Smith, of the Cambridge Low Temperature Station, to carry out a detailed scientific survey of our frozen-meat industry, special attention being given to temperatures, humidity, etc. Dr. Smith will first make a genera] survey at the London end and will arrive in the Dominion about the beginning of November next to continue his survey. It is hoped ho will have an opportunity of attending the next refrigerating engineers' conference to discuss various matters. Dr. Smith has already donu valuable work iv tho survey of food transport, and as a result of his coming visit to this Dominion the board ia_ confident that considerable benefits will be derived from the scientific survey of our frozen-meat industry.