Show PACKERS PUCKERS GAIN GAINA AC A CONCESSION N Cans Cans Will Be Labeled Roast Beef Vl When the Meat Has Been Merely Boiled Bailed Washington Sept 13 Canned roast beef beet will continue to bear th the e label roast beef be r wIthStanding notwithstanding no the fact tact that it I Ire really re lly is boiled boll beef This was a deci decision sion reached d a at t a conference today toMY be between between tween tw en Secretary Wilson and Senator Hop Hopkins Hopkins Hopkins kins of pf Illinois IllIn ls and Thomas m s E L Wilson general gene manager of the tho Nelson Morris Packing company of Chicago Chicago Senator Hopkins and Mr Wilson Vilson discussed the matter yesterday at Oyster Bay with President Roosevelt and were referred by him to Secretary Wilson Mr Wilson explained that the method of preparing canned roast beef was to parboil the meat for fifteen minutes and then put it In cans and subject it to steam heat for three hours The term roast beef which was applied to this product was of particular value to packers x ackers Mr lr Wilson said be because because because cause the method had hud been copied by bythe bythe bythe the Australian and South American packers who would profit by it if the American packers were forced It if After full tun consideration it was decided that the cans might bear the label of roast beef but that it should be stated on the labels how the beef was prepared and cooked Secretary Wilson made it clear that only perfectly healthy beef could be bo used in the preparation of canned roast beef although the product Is not of the highest grade of cattle No preservative of any kind will wilt be used In the preparation preparation preparation tion of the product x and the label must state Just how It Is Js prepared The decision was entirely satisfactory to the tho Backers I |