BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



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Meal and meat food products prepared and processed under bureau supervision, fiscal 



year 1911. 



The following quantities of meats and meat food products were 

 condemned on reinspection during the fiscal year because of having 

 become sour, tainted, putrid, unclean, rancid, or otherwise unwhole- 

 some: Beef, 12,106,336 pounds; pork, 8,747,016 pounds; mutton, 

 176,414 pounds; veal, 43,470 pounds; goat meat, 341 pounds; total, 

 21,073,577 pounds. This is an apparent increase of 10.7 per cent 

 over the previous year, but subtracting from these figures the large 

 amount of product condemned at one establishment on account of 

 an extensive fire (over 3,000,000 pounds), and taking into considera- 

 tion the great increase in the amount of meat food products pre- 

 pared during the fiscal year (over 700,000,000 pounds), the propor-. 

 tionate amount of product condemned on reinspection shows a grati- 

 fying decrease, wliich indicates continued improvement in sanitary 

 conditions and in methods of preparing and handling the products. 



INTERCHANGE OF MEATS BETWEEN INSPECTED ESTABLISHMENTS. 



Considerable quantities of meats and meat food products that have 

 been inspected and passed are transferred between inspected estab- 

 lishments, this traffic being closely supervised and the meats and 

 products identified by means of marks and seals. During the fiscal 

 year there were transferred in this manner 3,126,643,825 pounds of 

 meats and meat food products, part of which was contained in 17,884 

 sealed cars and 17,067 sealed wagons. 



MEATS AND PRODUCTS CERTIFIED FOR EXPORT. 



The quantities of meat and meat food products certified by the 

 bureau for export are shown in the following table, being an increase 

 of 19.7 per cent over the fiscal year 1910: 



Inspection certificates issued for export of meat and irceat food products, fiscal year 1911. 



