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THE BUREAU OF SCIENCE 



amendment to the Food and Drugs Act, requiring that all food 

 samples have the quantity of the contents stated on the label. 

 The enforcement of this amendment has been postponed until 

 foreign manufacturers could be informed of its provisions. Hov^- 

 ever, it is now in effect. The results of the war and the 

 new legislation are very much to increase the burden of work 

 of this branch of the Bureau of Science. The Legislature has 

 shown its interest in this work by the judicious laws that it has 

 passed, and the personnel for the enforcement of the laws should 

 be provided as requested in my appropriation estimate. Besides 

 foods, drinks, and drugs, all oils, sugar and sugar products, 

 toxicological and clinical specimens, opium, prohibited alkaloids, 

 commercial and miscellaneous organic samples, and work con- 

 nected with legal cases form a part of the regular routine work 

 of the division of organic chemistry. Several thousand such 

 samples have been examined during the year as shown by the 

 following classified summary: 



■ Sixty-seven were in violation of Act No. 2342. 



The large number of examinations of cereal products is due 

 to the campaign carried on by the Philippine Health Service and 

 the Bureau of Science in conjunction with the Board of Food 

 and Drug Inspection against the use of saccharine. The use of 

 saccharine as a sweetening agent for soft drinks was rather 



