INSPECTION AND STAMPING OF MEAT 

 IN DENMARK AND SUBSIDIES TO 

 AGRICULTURE 



The methods of Government inspection and stamping 

 of meat in force in Denmark have the double ad- 

 vantage of protecting the consumer there and abroad, 

 and of helping the producer by guaranteeing the 

 quality of his meat and therefore securing to him 

 a safe and constant market. Under the law of 1908 

 the export from Denmark of the flesh of cattle, sheep, 

 goats, pigs, and horses that have died a natural death, 

 or, as my Danish informant puts it quaintly, arrive at 

 the port " in question-causing shape " (like the ghost 

 of Hamlet's father), is strictly forbidden. The export 

 of any carcases or slaughter-house trimmings or refuse 

 is also forbidden, unless these have been examined 

 and passed by a State-appointed veterinary expert. 

 The result of this law is, I understand, that practically 

 no unsound meat leaves the shores of Denmark. 



As regards the home sale of butcher's flesh, the 

 regulations vary in Denmark, the communes and 

 town councils being at liberty to decide whether or 

 no they will submit themselves to a meat control. 

 In some of these communes this control is regulated 

 by the Agricultural Department, and the veterinary 

 responsible for it must obey the rules laid down by 

 that authority. Meat produced in such a commune and 

 stamped as first class can be sold all over Denmark 



without any further examination. In certain of the 



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