Handbook of meat inspection / by Robert Ostertag ; translated by E. Vernon Wilcox. With an introduction by John R. Mohler.

Date:
1904
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Credit: Handbook of meat inspection / by Robert Ostertag ; translated by E. Vernon Wilcox. With an introduction by John R. Mohler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    institutions, is to be looked upon as other cases of slaughter for home consumption. The regulation with regard to the household of butchers is intended to prevent the sale, offering for sale, or other utilization of meat which ostensibly was intended for the private household of those persons, but was placed upon the market by an evasion of compulsory inspection. The tradesmen, also, who prepare or manipulate meat before its sale (sausage makers, conserve manufacturers, etc.), are to be considered as meat dealers. Unfortunately, according to Sec. 2, only the industrial utiliza- tion of meat which has not been inspected is forbidden, and not the giving of it away gratis or incidentally (explanation of the State Secretary of the Interior at the 200th Session of the Reichstag). It was intended in this provision to allow farmers who had slaughtered too much meat for their own household an opportunity to dispose of the excess, despite the fact that it would have been more suitable to make the subsequent disposition of the surplus dependent upon the inspection of the meat. “ The utilization is industrial only when it is undertaken* and continued for the purpose of gain. A single instance of the utilization of the meat, is, therefore, not industrial if there is no intention of continuing in the business. On the other hand, the financial advantage does not necessarily consist in money.” (Rolirscheidt, according to decisions of the Upper Tribunal Court, the Upper Administrative Court, Imperial Court, and the Court of Chancery.) (c) “ Siyns of disease ivhich ivould exclude the fitness of their meat as food. In order that this restriction of Sec. 2 may have any practical value, it is necessary in the regulations for enforcing the law to specify those diseases which render meat unfit for use, and their symptoms. It must then be the business of the local author- ities to make generally known these commentaries of Sec. 2 of the meat inspection law. Section 3. The federated governments are authorized to order the inspection, at places where and times when a communicable animal disease prevails, of all food animals exposed to said disease. Sec. 3 is copied after a Bavarian meat inspection regulation iu order to make possible the inspection of all food animals for the protection of the consumers and for the determination of the cases of disease in the interest of the veterinary police, at least during the prevalence of plagues (epizootic anthrax, swine erysipelas, swine plague, and hog cholera). Since in this instance it is a case of local