62 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Examination of carcasses brought into slaughtering, packing, etc., establish- 

 ments, and of meat food products issued from and returned to such estab- 

 lishments. 



The foie^oin*:- provisions shall apply to all carcasses or parts of 

 carcasses of cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, or the meat or meat prod- 

 ucts thereof which may be brought into any slaughtering, meat-can- 

 ning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment, and such 

 examination and inspection shall be had before the said carcasses or 

 parts thereof shall be allowed to enter into any department wherein 

 the same are to be treated and prepared for meat food products; and 

 the foregoing provisions shall also apply to all such products which, 

 after having been issued from any slaughtering, meat-canning, salt- 

 ing, i^acking, rendering, or similar establishment, shall be returned to 

 the same or to any similar establishment where such inspection is 

 maintained. 



Inspectors of meat food products; appointment and authority; marks, etc., of 

 inspection of such products; meat food products for export. 



That for the purposes hereinbefore set forth the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture shall cause to be made, by inspectors appointed for that pur- 

 pose, an examination and inspection of all meat food products pre- 

 pared for interstate or foreign commerce in any slaughtering, moat- 

 canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment, and 

 for the purposes of any examination and inspection said inspectors 

 shall have access at all times, by day or night, whether the establish- 

 ment be operated or not, to eveiy part of said establishment; and 

 said inspectors shall mark, stamp, tag, or label as " Inspected and 

 passed " all such products found to be sound, healthful, and whole- 

 some, and which contain no dyes, chemicals, presen^atives, or ingredi- 

 ents which render such meat, or meat food products unsound, un- 

 healthful, unwholesome, or unfit for human food; and said inspectors 

 shall label, mark, stamp, or tag as " Inspected and condemned " all 

 such products found unsound, unhealthful, and unwholesome, or 

 which contain dyes, chemicals, preservatives, or ingredients which 

 render such meat or meat food products unsound, unhealthful. un- 

 wholesome, or unfit for human food, and all such condemned meat 

 food products shall be destroyed for food purposes, as hereinbefore 

 provided, and the Secretary of Agriculture may remove inspectors 

 from any establishment which fails to so destroy such condemned 

 meat food products: Provided^ That subject to the rules and regula- 

 tions of the Secretary of Agriculture the provisions hereof in regard 

 to preservatives .shall not apply to meat food products for export to 

 any foreign country and which are prepared or packed according to 

 the specifications or directions of the foreign purchaser, when no sub- 

 .stance is used in the preparation or ])acking thereof in conflict with 

 the laws of the foreign country to which said article is to be exported; 

 but if said article shall be in fact sold or offered for sale for domestic 

 use or consumption then this proviso shall not exempt said article 

 from the oi)ei-ation of all the otlier provisions of this Act. 



Labeling receptacles or coverings of meat food products inspected and passed; 

 supervision by inspectors; sale under false names forbidden; trade names 

 permitted. 



'J'hat when any meat or meat food product jirepared for interstate 

 or foreign commerce which has been inspected as hereinbefore pro- 



