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of fruit. The practice of selling jams and jellies made with added 

 pectin and a small quantity of fruit in competition with products in 

 which fruit is the chief ingredient has to a considerable extent de- 

 moralized the trade and checked the sale of true jams and jellies. 

 Progress has been made, but additional work is necessary to control 

 this practice. 



Salad oils. — Much work was done during the year to prevent the 

 adulteration and misbranding of vegetable salad oils, especially in 

 and about New York. A number of dealers have persistently mixed 

 olive oil with cheaper vegetable oils and sold the mixture as olive 

 oil. There has also been a widespread practice of selling short- 

 volume oils. These practices were materially checked during the 

 year by a campaign conducted by the eastern district. Eighty-seven 

 criminal prosecutions were instituted and 160 seizures effected. 



Apples. — Through the cooperative efforts of the eastern district 

 and the New York apple inspection service the shipment of apples 

 from New York misbranded as to grade was checked. The New 

 York law requires that apples in barrels be labeled as to grade. 

 Some shippers were found to be shipping apples into interstate com- 

 merce misbranded as to grade. 



Quantity of contents. — The food and drugs act requires that all 

 food in package form shipped within its jurisdiction shall bear on 

 the labels of the packages a plain and conspicuous statement of the 

 quantity of contents. All the inspection districts performed much 

 work both along educational lines to bring to the attention of shippers, 

 particularly small shippers of fruits and vegetables, this require- 

 ment of the law, and along regulatory lines in a great variety of food 

 products to check misbranding as to quantity of contents. Improve- 

 ments were effected during the year in both lines of work. A bulle- 

 tin on " Volume variation of bottled foods " was published. 



In addition to the specific products mentioned, much work was 

 done during the year on other food products. The following table 

 shows the number of seizures effected and the criminal prosecutions 

 instituted during the year : 



