Eureka Reporter | 1906-08-03 | Page 11 | United States Leads World

UNITED STATES great advantages expected to result from new meat inspection law secretary allson says that within a short time the meat products of the united states will be purer and more whole the purest in the world washington secretary allson declares that as a result of the new meat inspection law and the rules primul gated by him a radical change or the better will occur within a very short space of time he said the meat products of the united states will be purer and more wholesome than any products of the world the conditions existing in some of the slaughtering and pack ing houses abroad are about as bad as can be imagined and the american people henceforth will enjoy a dis advantage over the foreign con sumers of parm cular importance Is the rule providing for weekly inspection reports to be supplied the bureau of animal industry without uch re ports it would be difficult to cope with the situation As a general proposition however the law will be complied with in every detail but I 1 ahall take nothing tor granted and will make the inspection in every that the law reaches rigid and completed it has not been determined when the rules governing the interstate trens porta Uon phase of the question will be issued the secretary Is in almost dally conference with the railroad men par ocular from the west and from these be has already gathered a consider able amount of data on the subject it Is the belief at the department that the railroad will not be less sincere in complying with the law than the pack ere in fact it was stated that they have evinced a determination to eo operate with the department in every way in order that those meat products which bear the government label shall fand their way into other than the states from anch they were shipped