240 GERMAN MEAT IMPORT Law. 
provisions as to marking are not complied with, in cases 
where both butter and margarine are present. 
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IMPORTATION OF MEAT INTO GERMANY. 
The Board of Agriculture have received through the 
Foreign Office a further memorandum by the Commercial 
Attaché at Berlin on the German Inspection of Meat Act, 
with a more detailed account of its provisions than was 
given in the last number of this Yournal (p. 62). 
Sections 1 to 11 of the law, inclusive, deal with the 
actual slaughter of animals, and with the sale of meat of all 
kinds, including the flesh of cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, horses, 
and dogs. Local authorities are empowered to take the 
necessary steps to examine all animals when there is an out- 
break of infectious disease, and all meat, whether raw or 
prepared, and fat and sausages, are liable to inspection under 
the law. Meat of doubtful quality can only be sold for 
human consumption under certain conditions, and when 
it has been rendered perfectly harmless under police 
supervision. Such meat. can only be sold in a special part 
of the shop or other place of sale, with the distinct informa- 
tion that it has been rendered edible, and a notice clearly 
indicating the nature of the meat must be placed over it for 
the purchaser to see. Meat of this kind may not be sold in 
any room where originally sound meatis on sale, and the 
permission accorded by the police for the sale of such meat 
can be cancelled at any time. 
With regard to Section 12, which is the important para- 
graph affecting meat importations, the provisions of this 
section are as follows :— 
The importation of meat in airtight closed boxes or in 
similar casings, as also of sausages and other mixtures of 
chopped meat, is forbidden within the German Customs. 
limits. 
