BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



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INSPECTION OF MEAT ANU PRODUCTS. 



The inspection and supervision of meats and products prepared 

 and processed is shown in the following ta])le, which is a record only 

 of supervisory work performed and not a statement of the aggre- 

 gate quantity of products prepared. The same product is sometimes 

 duplicated by being reported in different stages of preparation imder 

 more than one heading. 



Meat and meat food products prepared and processed under inspection. 



The quantities of meat and meat food products condemned on 

 reinspection on account of having become sour, tainted, putrid, 

 imclean, rancid, or otherwise unwholesome, were as follows: Beef, 

 9,396,215 pounds; pork, 7,918,185 pounds; mutton, 83,061 pounds; 

 veal, 141,688 pounds; goat meat, 4,035 pounds; total, 17,543,184 

 pounds. 



MARKET INSPECTION. 



Market inspection was begun during the fiscal year at one city, 

 making a total of 43 cities at whose public markets this inspection is 

 maintained in order that interstate dehveries of meats and products 

 may be made therefrom. 



MEAT AND PRODUCTS CERTIFIED FOR EXPORT. 



The following products were certified for export under certificates 

 and stamps: Beef and beef products, 723,559,990 pounds; mutton 

 and mutton products, 2,413,916 pounds; pork and pork products, 

 1,784,472,896 pounds; a total of 2,510,446,802 pounds. In addition 

 there were issued 214 certificates covering the export of 3,639,895 

 pounds of inedible animal products. 



EXEMPTION FROM INSPECTION. 



The provisions of the meat-inspection law requiring inspection 

 usually do not apply to animals slaughtered by a farmer on a farm 

 nor to retail butchers and dealers supplying their customers. Retail 

 butchers and dealers, however, in order to ship meat and meat food 

 products in interstate or foreign commerce, are required first to 

 obtain certificates of exemption. The number of exemption certifi- 

 cates outstanding at the close of the fiscal year was 2,498, a decrease 

 of 58 from the preceding year. During the year 100 certificates were 

 canceled, 88 on account of the dealers retiring from business or ceas- 

 ing to make shipments, 7 for violations of the regulations, 4 because 



