TINNED MEAT TRADE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8378, 12 March 1907, Page 7

TINNED MEAT TRADE.

With reference to the tinned meat | trade advice has been received from tne 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 I canned food, the following resolu- I tions were, after very full discussion, passed unanimously:—" (1) That the Government be asked to take "steps 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, are satisfactory to the British Government. (3) That the Government should arrange for J official representation at all centres sl) •where foods are canned (for consump- ] a , tioninthis country), in order to as- w ] certain and report whether the Acts Cc are efficiently administered. (4) j" That every tin should be indelibly «" marked in such a way that the fac- f Qj tory and season of origin should be „r determined. (5) That the import- it , ation of tinned foods sterilised by . heat constaining any preservative, _ other than salt or saltpetre, be pro'l hibited. 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 be satisfactorily enforced.