INSPECTION OF EXPORT MEAT.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 144, 3 June 1911, Page 7

INSPECTION OF EXPORT MEAT.

FAULTY METHODS ON IN-

SPEUTION.

COM PLAINT BY EXPORTERS.

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Sydney. June 2.

Meat exporters are gravely dissatisfied with the Commonwealth supervision of the trade. It is stated that officials are administering the regulations who are not conversant with the trade. Instructions issued to inspectors are impractical and impossible of enforcement. In this State there are two veterinary and six lay inspectors for considerably over a hundred appointed places for export. It is impossible for such a handful of officers to carry out the requisite inspection. A great deal of meat is practically uninspected, yet the authorities are issuing certificates that it is fit for human consumption. Although the certificates state that ante-mortem and postmortem veterinary inspectionshave been made, a Commonwealth inspector is stationed only at one countrv killing works. It is also stated'that tags, certifying that veterinarian inspection has been made are attached to carcases and signed by lay inspectors who have not the requisite qualifications for the work. The exporters considered the staff should be controlled by a man having veterinary qualifications. The New Zealand system was mentioned as a standard.