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use as human food. When it was determined, for this reason, 

 that instruction.s shoukl be given to sampling agents to give especial 

 attention during the early fall to commodities of this class, a cor- 

 resi)ondiug notice was issued through the press, urging that retailers 

 examine their own stocks at once, and remove Iheiefrom any packages 

 that had been attacked and rendered until for use, to the end that the 

 consumers might there])y have the needed i)rotection, without recourse 

 to prosecutions, so far as such warning might serve this purpose. 



Speaking generally, it is the policy of the Bureau to use, so far 

 as practicable, publicity measures of the kind above described as the 

 first means of enforcing the law, with the hope that they will prove 

 sutficient. in case of most dealers, so tliat the more severe measure 

 of resort to court procedure may be kept down so far as the safety 

 of the public may permit. 



THE MONTHLY BULLETIN 



The Monthly Bulletin of the Bureau has served during the past 

 year, as during the preceding years, as the means of giving to the 

 public current information concerning the work of the Bureau, and 

 the policy originally adopted by which it was made a medium not 

 only of statements concerning the statistical work of the Bureau, 

 but also of general information on the subject of food production 

 and food control, has been continued. 



The demand for these Bulletins and the general interest with which 

 the public has received them, have continued in such degree as to 

 prove their value for the purpose stated. 



SUMMARY OF WOKK FOR THE YEAR 1011 



In the Appendix to this report are presented summaries showing 

 the list of articles ])urchased by the agents and analyzed by the 

 chemists of the Bureau during the year, and also a table giving a 

 list of those classes of articles found adulterated and misbranded, 

 and made the basis of prosecutions that have been terminated during 

 the year. The recapitulation of samples analyzed during 1911 shows 

 a total of 8,200, a number far in excess of the report for any single 

 preceding year during the existence of the Bureau. The number of 

 cases terminated also exceeds the previous record, the number being 

 1,020. The increase in these numbers is due, very largely, to the 

 greater number of samples of dairy products examined since the 

 passage of the new milk act of June 8, 1011, the total number of 

 these samples analyzed since that enactment being 4,957, as com- 

 I)ared with 3,206 samples of these products analyzed in 1909. 



In the following portion of this rei)ort the several classes of food 

 products analyzed will be considered separately in detail: 



DAIRY PRODUCTS 



The number of milk samples examined during 1011 was 3,512, a 

 portion of the work falling under the act of 1000, but the larger part 

 under the act of 1011. As the result of these analyses, there were 



