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Traders in England and Wales who prepare or pack meat 

 foods for export to Argentina and who desire that such ex- 

 portation should be accompanied by an official attestation 

 of precautions taken to safeguard the wholesomeness of the 

 foods in question should apply to the Local Government Board 

 for the approval of an officer to act as certifying officer, and 

 must undertake to give all necessary facilities to this officer 

 as regards access, inspection, sampling, &c. The certifying 

 officer is required to keep himself informed by personal inquiry 

 and in other ways as to the structure, &c, of the premises 

 where the meat is prepared, the cleanliness and wholesomeness 

 of the methods employed, the wholesomeness of the meat, &c, 

 and the certificate issued states that the exporting establish- 

 ment is under the prescribed sanitary supervision. 



The importation of hams treated with boracic acid previous 

 to packing is forbidden by the Argentine Republic. 



An International Dairy Congress will be held at The Hague 

 from the 16th to the 20th September, 1907. It will consider 

 subjects which are of common interest 

 International Dairy to dairy countries and more particularly 

 Congress. questions which refer to legislation re- 



lating to the prevention of butter adultera- 

 tion. A large number of delegates are expected to attend 

 and influential committees have been formed in Austria, 

 Belgium, France, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Luxemburg, 

 Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. 

 Sir Edward Strachey, M.P. ; Dr. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., Principal 

 of the Government Laboratory ; Mr. E. G. Haygarth Brown 

 and Mr. A. E. Balleine, of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 

 have been appointed as the official representatives of this 

 country. The British Committee, which consists of over thirty 

 members, has held meetings during the past summer, and 

 sub-committees have been formed to consider the subjects 

 which will be discussed in the three sections of the Congress. 

 Mr. G. E. Lloyd-Baker, Hardwicke Court, Gloucester, is the 

 'Chairman of the Committee and Mr. E. C. Trepplin, Orchard 

 Portman, near Taunton, is the Hon. Secretary. 



A report * on the preceding Congress, which was held in Paris 



* Report on the Second International Dairy Congress [Cd. 3689.] Price 6d. 



