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The total, therefore, collected during the year 1002 and paid into 

 the State Treasury up to December 1st, was: 



Oleomargarine licenses, |23,927 05 



Renovated butter licenses, 766 07 



Fines and costs, 18,881 87 



Total, $43,574 99 



These facts show that there are still unscrupulous compounders 

 of foods, who are willing for personal profit, to drug with poison, 

 and to dilute with inferior articles, the various foods which they 

 offer to the consuming public; and whilst, as has been shown, much 

 has been done in the past several years to clear the shelves, shops 

 and markets of this State of adulterated and dangerous foods, there 

 is necessity for continued activitj', in order to secure universal com- 

 pliance with our laws. 



The responsibility for food adulteration can be fixed upon three 

 distinct classes of people; the manufacturer, the jobber and the 

 retailer. 



The control of food adulteration as it affects the manufacturer, 

 jobber and retail dealer, must, of necessit}', be through the medium 

 of laws regulating their trade, enforced by public oflBcers delegated 

 for the purpose. The proper framing of these laws, so as to protect 

 the public against fraud and injury to health, is a task of no small 

 magnitude. Care must be exercised, not to unnecessarily restrict, 

 or iojure, manufacturers and others, in their efforts to improve their 

 processes, or in endeavoring to provide new combinations of food 

 which are beneficial to the public. 



These laws should be, both State and National. The State laws, 

 to secure the proper control of foods produced and sold within the 

 State; and the National laws, for the regulating of the character of 

 foods on the markets outside of the State in which they were manu- 

 factured or produced. 



All of these laws should be definite and explicit io their require- 

 ments, leaving as little as possible for interpretation or ruling by 

 the executive, or for contetition in the courts. The Pennsylvania De- 

 partment of Agriculture has, with great care, and after frequent con- 

 sultations with its corps of food experts, chemists, attorneys and 

 agents, prepared and published a set of rulings, together with defini- 

 tions and standards on food products, which it is believed will protect 

 the public, are fair and just to the manufacturers and dealers, and 

 are in strict accordance with the spirit of the law, regulating the 

 manufacture and sale of food in this State. 



Legislatioo, for the control of food adulteration, has thus far been 

 confined to the several States, acting independently of each other. 



