TINNED MEAT TRADE

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2030, 15 March 1907, Page 2

TINNED MEAT TRADE

With reference to the tinned meat trade, advice has .been received from the High Commissioner for New Zealand stating that at a meeting of the Canned Foods Committee appointed by the Incorporated Institute of Hygiene to consider the question of canned food, the following resolutions were, after very lull discussion, passed unanimously :—(1) That the Government be asked to take stops forthwith to ascertain and collect information as to the Act or Acts (if any) under which various foreign and colonial Governments permit of foods being prepared for export to this country. (2) That no prepared foods be imported into this country unless the laws relating to their preparation, and the mode in which these laws are enforced in the country from which exported, arc satisfactory to the British Government. (3) That the Government should arrange for official representation at all centres where foods are canned (for consumption in this country) in order to ascertain and report whether the Acts are efficiently administered. (4) That every tin should be indelibly marked in such a way that the factory and season of origin should bo determined (5) That the importation of tinned foods sterilised by heat containing any preservative, other than sale or saltpetre, ho prohibited. This prohibition is not to apply to traces of preservative of an accidental character or clearly not added for preservative purposes. (6) That similar provisions should in all cases apply to English manufactures, and that the Acts relating to- food inspection should- be satisfactorily enforced, i