CO129-549-10 Importation of meat products- health certificates 11-6-1934 - 21-11-1934 — Page 25

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IMPORTED MEAT AND MEAT FRODUCTS.

Recognition of Official Certificates.

An Official Certificate may be in the form of a

certificate, label, mark, stamp, or other voucher;

it must

be affixed to the meat or meat product or to a package containing

the meat or meat product by a competent authority in the country

of origin.

2.

Before recognising an Official Certificate, the

Minister of Health will require to be satisfied that the

arrangements made in the country of origin are such as to secure that the meat or mcat product to which the Certificate

relates has been derived from an animal found on ante- and

post-mortem veterinary examination to be free from disease and

that it has been dressed or prepared and packed with all necessary precautions for the prevention of danger to public

health.

3.

For this purpose, information will be required

on the following points: -

(@)

(b)

(c)

(a)

The Authority (i.e. the Government, Government

Department, etc.) which is responsible for the certification;

The nature of the arrangements in force for the

inspection of meat. These arrangements should include the ante-mortem inspection of all animals and the inspection of every carcase along with the viscera.

Particulars of the regulations governing the

condemnation of carcases in which any disease is found. An assurance must be given that if evidence of any disease is found the entire carcase and viscera will be rejected as unsuitable for export.

The nature of the regulations for the inspection

of the processes of preparing, packing, etc. These arrangemer ts should include the systematic inspection of premises in which slaughtering and other processes take place, in order to ensure due observance of all necessary sanitary precautions. Information should also be given as to the steps taker to secure that these precautions are enforced.

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