MEAT INSPECTION A FARCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10782, 2 June 1911, Page 4

MEAT INSPECTION A FARCE.

NEW ZEALAND QUOTED AS MODEL. £Bt Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received June 2. at 10 a.m. Sydney, June 1. Tile'meat exporters are gravely dissatisfied with Commonwealth super-vision-of the trade. It is stated that the/officials the regulations ate iiofc conversant with trade and instructions issued to inspectors are unpractical -and - impossible of enforcement: In" this State there are two veterinary and six lay inspectors for considerablv over one hundred appointed places for export and it is impossible for this handful of officers to carry out "the' requisite inspection so that" a"great deal of meat is practically uninspected, while the authorities are issuing a certificate that it is fit for iiuman consumption. Although the certificate states that ante-mortem and posl-mortcmi veterinary inspections are made 'a .Commonwealth inspector is stationed *at only one' country killing works. Also tags stating that they have made veterinary inspections are signed Tjy lay inspectors who have not tho'requisite qualifications. It is considered that the staff, should be controlled by a man of veterinary qualifications'. The New Zealand system is mentioned as the standard.