Pig meat or horse meat used for minced meat production must have been obtained in accordance with the requirements regarding trichina examination. |
The trichina capsules commonly measure about one-fifth of a line long, and the coiled worm within is scarcely a half-line long. |
If trichina treatment is performed, all applicable controls must also be registered in a log book. |
In an allied family and genus is placed one of the most dangerous of human parasites, the trichina spiralis. |
The pork worm or trichina, however, is a parasite which may cause serious injury. |
The trichina is a nematode worm, and not an insect, as it was at first called. |