LAMB TRANSPORT

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1932, Page 6

LAMB TRANSPORT

PRESERVATION OF APPEARANCE USfe OF NEW BAG COVERING. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, July 18. The Department of Scientific and industrial Research has issued a report on freezing storage transport of New Zealand lamb by Doctors Ezer GriffitOs J. It. Vicker.y and Mr R. R. Haddow, who spent four .months suyyoyjng the trade. They covered twenty-three thousand miles , visited eighteen, freezing works and,.followed eight liundreu, carcases of -through everting ° f . the chain from the abattoir r .jnTNe\v Zealand to Smithfield. The report deals principally with the question of how to preserve the, bloom or freshly-killed appearance, of meat' and the prevention of loss by evaporation of water from the carcase Under the present system, the cooling freezing transport storage, the report says, a good deal of bloom must neces-, sarily be lost. To preserve the freshiy killed appearance, evaporation must be considerably reduced. The most feasible .means of doing this appears t° be covering the carcases, as quickly as possible with bags impermeable to water vapour. The, bags should be odourless and sufficiently strong to withstand handling, and the cost should Compare, with that of the usual stockingette wrap, but should not-be such as to cancel the monetary advantages gained by the lower losses of and bloom. Three, types of bags, were tested but none was suitable 'The ideal bag is still to be evolved. - -