Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-19 | Page 6 | Sale of Diseased Meat Must Stop

I sale Of DISEASED MEAT MUST STOP I Salt Lake, Jan. 19. Wlllard Han- H eon, state food and dairy coramls- M Blonor, was busy yesterday afternoon H" J In his office over the carcass of a H small hop which had been condemned B In Eureka by J. A. Hensell, city phy- H j ' The moat gavo every ovidenc of H ' helng diseased, according to Mr. Han- H sen, and was one of a wagon load of B j hog meat brought into Eureka for the H j market by M. K. Nlbo, a farmer. Dr. Hrj Honeell declared the meat unfit for H j human consumption and confiscated HJjj the ontiro load, pending the commls- Hr i sloner's investigation H j Mr. Hansen said that for some time H.j ho had been in receipt of information H from Utah county that certain ieoplo Hr j have boon killing diseased hogs and H 'selling them to the market He thinks H I the present caso may bo one upon H j which tho authorities can base Hl For several weeks information also H I has been received that farmers in HL Utah county have been taking dls- 1 . cased poultry to market at Thistle. It H J is alleged thnt chickens in advanced H stages of disease havo been killed H and Pressed before being taken to H I market and that many others have H been offered for sale alive as soon as H the presence of disease was dlscov- H The matter lias been under Inves- H ' tlgatlon and Sir. Hansen states that H , sufficient evidence Qias been gath- Hl red to verify tho allegations of his H j ' informants and that charges may H Shortly be mado against tho offend -