CO129-549-10 Importation of meat products- health certificates 11-6-1934 - 21-11-1934 — Page 19

Telegrams-

LOCALISE, PARL, LONDON. "

Telephone-WHITEHALL, 4300.

Please address any further cation on this subject to :-

THE SECRETARY.

Hove Kong

communi.

I this and

MINISTRY OF HEALTH,

20

WHITEHALL.

S.W.1.

NATIONAL

SCHEME

FOR

DISABLED M

MEN

2 June, 1934.

Please quote the following reference-

IIIB/103007/41B/31.

Sir,

1. I am directed by the Minister of Health to enclose for the information of the Secretary of State copies of a draft of the Public Health (Imported Food) Amendment Regulations, 1934, which the Minister proposes to make in order to impose further safeguards with regard to the importation of meat and meat products into England and Wales.

2. At the present time, by virtue of the Public Health (Imported Food) Regulations, 1925, as amended by the Public Health (Imported Food) Amendment Regulations, 1933, the importation of certain classes of meat is prohibited and Official Certificates of the country of origin are required with severed parts of carcases and edible offals derived from cattle, swine, sheep and goats, and also with certain rendered fats.

3.

Exemption from the requirement of certification is

at present provided for:-

(a) Whole carcases;

(b) Any part of the carcase of a pig which has been

salted, cured, pickled, dried, smoked, or otherwise prepared in the manner in which bacon or ham is ordinarily prepared;

(c) Meat which has, before importation, been made ready

for human consumption in the form of a sausage or other prepared or manufactured article of food;

(d) Intestines prepared in the form of sausage casings; (e) Certain rendered fats, mainly used in the making

of margarine, and known as oleo oil, oleo stearine and premier jus.

4. The principal purpose of the proposed new Amendment Regulations is to remove these exemptions and (except for margarine) to require Official Certificates with all imported meat and meat products, including any article of food which is prepared from meat or of which meat is an ingredient. Certificates will, therefore, be necessary not only with fresh meat as at present, but also with all bacon, ham and other salted meat, and all articles of the nature of sausages, tinned or potted meats, meat extracts and essences, oleo oil, etc. and sausage casings.

5. Certain alterations are also proposed in the schedule of prohibited meat, viz:-

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

Downing Street,

S.W.1.

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