Open AccessMEAT INSPECTION LAW FOR MUNICIPALITIES
Author(s) -
W. Parker Jones
Publication year - 1920
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-9687
pISSN - 0271-4353
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.10.5.415
Subject(s) - public health , environmental health , population , business , food inspection , law , medicine , political science , food processing , nursing
Less than one-third of our cities of 5,000 population or more have any regulation of meat inspection, and in many of these the inspection is incomplete. This affects communities using local meats, which are more likely to be infected than are interstate meats. Public health demands serious reforms in this matter.