No. 6. UIOPAKTMION'I' OK AGIIICULTLIKIC. 539 



DECISIONS OF THK DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL- 

 TURE. 



PART I. 



KULINGS ON n^HE PUKE FOOD LAW" OF JUNE! 26, 1895. 



1. — All foods manufactured, sold, offered or exposed for sale are 

 held to Tbe represented as pure, unless accompanied by adequate 

 notice to the contrary, in which case they must be distinctly labeled 

 as ''mixtures" or "compounds," or as "artificial" preparations. 



2. — Food sold as pure must be true to name, of standard strength, 

 quality and purity, and not a compound, mixture or an artificial 

 preparation or imitation. 



3. — Where no standard of strength, quality or purity is fixed by 

 law, the standard required shall be that adopted by the highest 

 recognized authorities, such as the United States Pharmacopoeia, 

 or the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. 



4. — No food shall have added to it any substance or ingredient 

 "which is poisonous or injurious to health." 



5. — No fraudulent or worthless article having little or no food 

 value, shall be mixed with standard goods or substituted for them, 

 and be sold as food under the label "compound" or "mixture;" but 

 all foods sold under this designation must be composed of substances 

 recognized as "ordinary articles or ingredients of articles of food." 



G. — The question of the admissibility of a non-poisonous or harm- 

 less foreign substance in a food, may depend upon whether the sub- 

 stance introduced is necessary in order to improve the value or qual- 

 ity of the food, or is fraudulently added as a diluent and cheapener. 



7. No food shall be sold under the name of a substance of which it 

 contains none Or only an inconsiderable quantity, and when a name 

 is "coined" therefor such name shall not be suggestive of any sub- 

 stance not contained therein. 



8. — Foods manufactured in Pennsylvania, except where exempt 

 by statute from such requirement, should, for the purpose of identifi- 

 cation, be labeled with the name and address of the person or firm 

 manufacturing them. Foods not so marked are regarded with sus- 

 picion. 



