110 ANNUAL EEPOETS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. 



The following statement shows the condemnations of imported 

 meats and the amount refused entry on account of lack of foreign 

 certificate or other failure to comply with the regulations : 



INSPECTIONS FOR THE AKMT AND THE NAVY. 



At the request of the War and Navy Departments, inspections 

 were made of meat and meat food products offered for the use of 

 the Army and the Navy to determine whether they conformed to 

 the specifications. The meats and products inspected for the Army 

 amounted to 87,982 pounds, all of which conformed to the require- 

 ments. For the Navy 12,808,056 pounds was inspected, of which 

 455,479 pounds was rejected. 



MEAT-INSPECTION LABORATORIES. 



In the general plan to separate the regulatory and research work 

 at the beginning of the fiscal year the seven meat-inspection labora- 

 tories were transferred from the Biochemic Division to the Meat 

 Inspection Division. 



Samples to the number of 33,021 were analyzed, of which 30,666 

 were domestic, 1,854 imported, and 501 miscellaneous products. Be- 

 sides meat and products the samples comprised curing materials, 

 pickling solutions, cereals, spices, condiments, colors, waters, gela- 

 tins, inks and ink ingredients, mineral oils for denaturants, inedible 

 gi'eases, process or renovated butter, and paints and lacquers. Of the 

 samples examined, 1,310, or approximately 4 per cent, were found 

 not to conform to the regulations. 



The water supply from 304 establishments was examined, and 31 

 water supplies were found to be polluted and their use in the prepara- 

 tion of meat and products was discontinued. 



The objectionable preservative most frequently found was boric 

 acid, and it usually occurred as an impurity in saltpeter and nitrate 

 of soda (Chile saltpeter), and had not been intentionally added to 

 meat food products as a preservative. Most cases of mislabeling were 

 due to short weight and the presence of cereal in meat products, and 

 these were found most frequently in imported products. 



THE FIELD INSPECTION DIVISION. 



The Field Inspection Division, of which Dr. E,. A. Ramsay is 

 chief, conducts administrative work for the control and eradication 

 of contagious diseases and the interstate transportation of live stock. 



The work of eradicating foot-and-mouth disease has already been 

 reported. 



