People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — DENY SENSATIONAL REPORTS. [ARTICLE]

DENY SENSATIONAL REPORTS.

Government Officials Say Diseased Pork Is Not Sold In America, Washington. June 5.—lt is said at the agricultural department there is no truth in the published reports that pork examined microscopically for export to Germany and France, and found to contain trichinae, is stamped by the inspectors as free from disease and so transported and sold in interstate commerce trade. Early in February Secretary Morton ordered all pork examined microscopically and if found to be affected with trichinosis tanked, but later it was decided that the present law did not give the secretary this authority. The enforcement of the order was, therefore, postponed until July 1. when the new law goes into effect. It is doubtful, however, whether the new law will give him power to cause the destruction of pork affected with trichinae.