REPORT ON FOOD ADULTERATION FOR 1915 



Br W. M. ALLEN, State Food and Oil Chemist, 



ASSISTED BY 



E. W. THORNTON, Assistant Chemist, 

 C. E. BELL, Assistant Chemist. 



Eeport on Food Adulteration and tlie Enforcement of Food Law for 

 1915 — the sixteenth annual report on the subject. 



THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW 



The State Food Law, chapter 368, Public Laws of l^orth Carolina, 

 1907, makes it the duty of the State Department of Agriculture to en- 

 force the food law. The law provides that the Board of Agriculture 

 shall adopt and publish' standards of strength and purity for food 

 products and regulations for the enforcement of the law. Such stand- 

 ards and regulations have been adopted and published in the Annual 

 Food Eeports from time to time, as well as in pamphlet form, and have 

 been sent to the dealers of the State, and will be sent on application to 

 any citizen of the State. 



NET WEIGHT OR MEASURE 



The Legislature of 1915 amended the State Food Law so that it re- 

 quires the net weight or measure to be stated on the label of foods in 

 package form. The law now reads as follows : 



That for the purpose of this act an article shall also be deemed to mis- 

 branded: 



If in package form, the quantity of the contents be not plainly and conspic- 

 uously marked on the outside of the package in terms of weight, measure, or 

 numerical count so as to comply with the regulations on labeling prescribed 

 by the Board of Agriculture, provided for by section ten, chapter three hun- 

 dred and sixty-eight of the Public Laws of nineteen hundred and seven, the 

 Board of Agriculture is hereby authorized to establish rules and regulations 

 permitting reasonable variations when in their judgment exactness is imprac- 

 ticable: Provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to 

 articles in packages or containers when the retail price of such article is six 

 cents or less: Aiid provided further, that it shall not apply to products on 

 hand at the time of the passage of this act until after January first, nineteen 

 hundred and sixteen. 



ATTENTION OF LOCAL DEALERS 



The Department has spent a great deal of time and money trying to 

 show and inform the dealers of the State how to comply with the law, 

 and yet many of them continue to sell at retail from bulk compounds 

 and imitation products as straight food products. 



