CURING OF MEAT.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5177, 12 September 1927, Page 3

CURING OF MEAT.

PRESERVATIVE PROHIBITED. GOVERNMENT’S ACTIVITIES. “The prosecutions which have taken place in Auckland recently are neither the beginning .nor the end of the activity of the Department of Health in dealing with the use of boron compounds in curing meat,” declared the Minister of Health (Hon. J. A. Young) in the House last week, in reply to Mr T. M. Wilford. “The regulations have been in force since 1913 and have; never been suspended. All curers throughout New Zealand have had full warning, and if the result of sampling discloses the use of boron presertatives the usual prosecutions will follow. “The firm in Auckland which was recently fined for selling bacon with a prohibited preservative,” added the Minister, ”wa® the successful tenderer for supplies; of bacon to Avondale Mental Hospital and St. Helens Hospital, Auckland, but declined to take up the contract. Samples of bacon were taken on Monday from the supplies actually in use at the two institutions named and, were examined for boron preservative with negative result. Simultaneously, samples were taken from the supplier with the same result. This supplier’s goods also were found satisfactory previously when a number of Auckland firms’ goods were sampled, and the result iiysome cases led to prosecutions.”