BONED MEAT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 110, 11 May 1908, Page 7

BONED MEAT.

A SUSPECTED ARTICLE

The recent report of Dr. T3uchanan in England on imported boned meat as ati undesirable article of commerce aroiised some attention a tew weeks ago in this country. The question is referred to briefly in the March number of the Journal of the Board of Agriculture as follows: —

"" Imported Boneless Scrap Meat.— "This is meat imported in boxes, barrels, or other receptacles, and consists of sco&ps, lumps, trimmings, and other portions of such size and shape 11 >t, they are rot readily identifiable h -definite parts of the dressed carcass. Most of it comes in a frozen condition from the United States, but some sin nil quantities are also received from Argentina, Australasia, and elsewhere. Inspection in tins icnntry can afford no check whatever as-'to the existence of disease in the oinmals from which the meat is de-

r tivc-d, nor upon the use oi uncleanly or objectionable methods of treating ; or i-ukintr, an.l Dr. Bv,c_.an..u .b- ---! ser\'s i' .^t the un decked aav iss'on oi ' iel •'■ sci'vr ni; ■."- in. ; ch<-) United i'Ki' d-^: ap;:';.rs q c :stv tea do I it, "i-k .o ?**?'-. > »lso liiiid. :s L H uka,i;] •■ ; !.nx:ii. .-:riv; .^a of public health laws and regulations relating to unsound or diseased meat in this" country, because it is obvioush a hardship to the home tra er that his meat should be seized by local authorities on account of disease or other conditions, which rendered rt unwholesome, while similar treatment cannot be applied to imported meat of this type. . ~ . • "At the preseut time the volume of trade in this commodity is small, fi,nd to prohibit its importation would cause little interference with trade Boneless scrap moat regarded as a poition of our imported meat supply is practically a negligible quantity, and as yet it is only a small portion of the imported meat which finds its way to makers of sausages, minced i meat, and like articles. If it is urged that this scrap meat is after all for the most part wholesome, the answer is that in that case it is free to come in other forms (e.g., as joints or portions of meat readily identifiable with definite parts of the dressed carcass) which" are less open to suspicion."