Show MEATS MUST BE INSPECTED senate adds important amendment to agricultural bill washington the senate on friday passed the agricultural bill carrying an appropriation of 7 and without a word of debatt or an objection from any source added to it as an amendment the bill providing for an inspection of fresh meats intended for domestic consumption the provision is along the general lines of the law for the inspection ol 01 meats intended to be shipped abroad and the work is delegated to the bureau of animal industry it requires require a that acceptable meats shall be labeled and authorizes the destruction of con damned products it also authorizes inspection ot of all animals before they enter the packing houses requires that those establishments shall be maintained in a sanitary condition gives the inspectors access to all de apartments part ments of them and forbids forbid inter state commerce in fresh meats which are not marked by the inspectors the expense of the inspection is to be borne by the owners and a fine ol 01 10 and imprisonment for two years are fixed as penalties tor for viola tion of the provision |