Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-22 | Page 2 | Millions of Pounds of Meat Condemned

MILLI01 OF FOB OF lATJOiEMIO Department of Agriculture Gives Figures on Operation . of Inspection Law. By International Xews Service. WASHIXGTON, Sept. 21. The care with which Uncle Sam protects his meat-eating meat-eating children is shown In a report Issued by the department of agriculture today. For Ihe seven years In which a meat Inspection law has been In force the following figures were given. Animals Inspected before slaughter, 377,000,000; carcasses rejected. 1.100,000; parts of carcasses condemned, 1,750,000; reinspoction of meat and meat food produced, f-i, 000,000,000 pounds; meat and meat food products condemned on re-Inspection, re-Inspection, MS.000,000 pounds; certified for export, 8,000,000.000 pounds. The report states that inspection of meat Is now carried on In 732 slaughter houses In the United States by a force of 2400 veterinary Inspectors and assistants. as-sistants. These slaughter houses arc scattered among; 237 cities and towns. "In tho largo packing- houses," says the report, "the post mortem Inspection work Is so divided that each carcass must pass the scrutiny of several Inspectors, each of whom gives his entire attention to examining certain parts. Under this system the Inspector's vision and sense of touch becomes so finely developed that the slightest variation from healthy tissue can be at once detected "