REPORT OF BUREAU OF IXSPECTIOX. l8l 



manufacture, sell, distribute, transport, offer or expose for 

 sale, distriilbuition or transportation, any article of food that 

 consists in whole or in part of a fiMiy, decoaiiposed or putrid 

 aniroal or vegetable substance, or any portion of an animal 

 unfit for food, whether manufactured or not, or if it is the 

 product of a diseas-ed animal, or one that has died othenwise 

 than by slaughter; or if in the manufacture, sale, distribution, 

 or transportation, or in the offering or exjposing for sale, dis- 

 tritaition or transportation it is not at all times securely pro- 

 tected from filth, flies, dust or other contamination, or other 

 unclean, unheal thful or unsanitary conditions. 



Under the above statute, offenders who have violated the 

 law in the sale of meats, fruits, etc., or by unsanitary expo- 

 sure of foods, have been 'brought to justice and the strength 

 of the law determined. These violations varied considerably 

 in nature, from the sale of tihe carcass of an animal unfit for 

 food, to the exposure of confectionery not sufficiently protected 

 from contamination. Among other educational features of the 

 enforcement, it was deemed of sufficient importance for the 

 inspectors to call the direct attention of the dealers to such 

 violations when they have been noticed, as well as to report 

 them to this office, and in August a regulatory annoimcement, 

 enumerating the different articles requiring protection, was 

 issued from this bureau and distributed to the dealers by the 

 inspectors in the towns and cities visited. 



In the early spring, a large warehouse that was located in 

 Portland, burned. In this building large quantities of canned 

 goods and other food products -in bulk packages were stored. 

 It is hoped that valuable service was rendered at this time 

 by carefully tracing out and regulating the sale of salvaged 

 goods. As a result of this fire, a portion of the canned goods 

 was entirely destro^-^ed, and in the disposition of the remainder 

 the proper protection to the consumer was afforded under the 

 Pure Food law. Inspectors watched carefully the recovery 

 of large quantities of sardines, canned tomatoes, canned apples 

 and other miscellaneous food products, and in some cases per- 

 fx)nally inspected the reclaiming process of canning; in other 

 instances, where carload shipments (entered iruterstate com- 

 merce, >the Federal authorities were notified as well as the 

 food officials in the state where the cars had their destina- 

 tion. 1 



