The Lobeck Bill: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Sixty-fourth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 5792 |
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Animal Industry Employees annual leave annum appropriation BORLAND BRAY bureau employees Bureau of Animal CANDLER carcasses cent CHAIRMAN Chicago chief Civil Service Commission Civil Service Manual classified service clerks committee condemned dated Department of Agriculture disease East Liverpool efficiency and faithfulness employed entrance salary February February 17 fiscal foot-and-mouth disease Government HAUGEN hazardous hearings HELGESEN increases in salaries indorsements inspec inspector in charge July June June 30 Kansas City lard large number lay inspectors grade letter live stock Lobeck bill March March 27 MCDERMOTT MCLAUGHLIN meat and meat meat food products meat-inspection ment National Association Bureau packers packing house packing-house Petition signed position POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT pounds receive regulations REILLY resigned RUBEY RYAN satisfactory service schedule Secretary of Agriculture Sixty-third Congress statement TAGGART tank tion United States Bureau United States Civil veterinary inspectors WALKLEY Washington
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Page 63 - Is to be understood, however, that owing to the fact that It Is Impracticable to formulate rules covering every case, and to designate at Just what stage a process becomes loathsome or a disease noxious, the decision as to the disposal of all carcasses, parts, or organs not specifically covered by these regulations shall be left to the veterinary Inspector In charge.
Page 83 - Lay inspectors. These employees are laymen who assist veterinary inspectors in ante-mortem and post-mortem inspections, supervise the curing, canning, packing, and other preparation, handling, and marking of meat and products, examine such articles to detect unsound or unfit conditions, assist in the enforcement of sanitary requirements, and perform various other duties.
Page 95 - Inspection was begun at 77 establishments and withdrawn from 101 establishments, as compared with 101 and 74, respectively, during the fiscal year 1914. The causes of withdrawal were as follows: Discontinuance of slaughtering or of interstate business, 82 establishments ; failure to comply with the requirements of the department, 9 ; by request, 6; consolidation with other establishments, 2; granting of market inspection, 2.
Page 95 - Ante-mortem inspections of animals, fiscal year 1911. 1 This term is used to designate animals found or suspected of being unfit for food on ante-mortem inspection, most of which are afterwards slaughtered under special supervision, the final disposition being determined on post-mortem inspection.
Page 97 - EXEMPTION FROM INSPECTION. The provisions of the meat-inspection law requiring inspection do not apply to animals slaughtered by farmers on the farm nor to retail butchers and dealers. The department requires that such butchers and dealers, in order to ship meat and meat food products in interstate commerce, shall first obtain certificates of exemption, but no such requirement is made of farmers. The number of certificates of exemption outstanding at the close of the fiscal year was 2,548, an increase...
Page 62 - States, and in every case when disease is found the diagnosis and the character and extent of the lesions are made a matter of record. This information, used in conjunction with live-stock shipping records, is sufficient in most cases to fix the territory of origin, and in many cases is sufficiently complete...
Page 106 - An Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen...
Page 57 - States in compliance with said rules and regulations, said imported meats shall be deemed and treated as domestic meats within the meaning of and shall be subject to the provisions of the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirtyfourth Statutes at Large, page six hundred and seventy-four...
Page 97 - The quantity of meat and meat food products condemned on reinspection because of having become sour, tainted, putrid, unclean, rancid, or otherwise unwholesome was as follows: Beef, 6,712,049 pounds; pork, 11,936,913 pounds; mutton, 146,061 pounds; veal, 56,429 pounds; goat meat, 478 pounds; total, 18,851,930 pounds.
Page 51 - Industry, and are chosen by reason of their fitness for responsibility as determined by their records in the service. At stations where slaughtering is conducted, only veterinary inspectors are placed in charge.