§ Mr. HARRY HOPEasked the Lord Advocate if in those quarters of Australian and American beef which are found to be infected with a worm nodule disease, it is the practice that the visibly affected pieces only are cut out, and the remainder allowed to be sold to the public; and since home-fed beef, if suspected of tuberculosis, is not stripped and dressed in this manner but entirely condemned, are the authorities in Scotland going to continue meting out different treatment to Colonial and foreign supplies than to that of the home produce; and are they going to continue allowing such a questionable kind of beef to be distributed to the public?
§ Mr. UREI am informed that so far as Australian meat is concerned there is apractice as stated by the hon. Member. American beef does not present the nodular condition referred to, particulars of which are206W contained in a Report (New Series, No. 45) recently presented to the Local Government Board. The attention of the medical officers at the principal Scottish ports was in February directed to this Report by the Local Government Board for Scotland, and the local authorities will doubtless take any necessary action. I am advised that home-fed meat suspected of tuberculosis is entirely condemned only in exceptional circumstances, but in any case it would not be correct to infer that regulations for tuberculous meat are necessarily suitable for application to the meat in question.