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THE fourteenth Benjamin Ward Richardson lecture, founded in 1922 by the Model Abattoir Society (dissolved in 1935), was delivered in the rooms of the Royal Sanitary Institute, which has taken over the management of the Richardson Trust, on November 12, by Dr. M. T. Morgan of the Ministry of Health, on the system of health inspection of meat and meat products destined for export in the great abattoirs of South America. In accordance with instructions from his Department, Dr. Morgan recently visited the large factory abattoirs in the Argentine, Uruguay and Brazil which serve for the preparation of meat and meat products destined for export overseas and for local consumption. The products range from the finest quality chilled beef destined for the English market down to every variety of by-product from agricultural fertilisers to buttons for clothes. The finest quality meat is produced in the Argentine, and a slightly inferior quality in Uruguay. The system of inspection of meat and meat products is the same in all three countries, but is most highly developed in the Argentine where it is a special branch of the State service of inspection of livestock and is not attached to the public health service as in Great Britain. A most efficient inspection of the animals is made both before and after death. Whole carcasses or sides or portions or viscera are rejected on the slightest groimds of a suspicion that they are unhealthy or unsuitable for human consumption. In conclusion, Dr. Morgan states that in all three countries he was struck by the extraordinarily high standard of the service of inspection and the extreme cleanliness and efficiency in every department of the enormous factories.
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Meat Inspection in South America. Nature 137, 26 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137026b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137026b0