6 The Bulletin 



The attention of local dealers is especially called to the sale of com- 

 pounds and imitations as straight food products. The sale of a com- 

 pound or imitation food product is legal, provided it contains nothing 

 deleterious to health and is sold under its own name as a compound or 

 imitation, as the case may be. But the sale of a compound vinegar or 

 of an imitation or spirit vinegar as vinegar is a violation of the law. 



The sale of butterine or renovated butter as butter is a violation of 

 the law. 



The sale of a compound coffee and chicory as coffee is a violation of 



the law. 



The sale of a compound sirup or a mixture of glucose or corn sirup 

 and refiners' sirup as sirup is a violation of the law. 



The sale of filled cheese, or skim-milk cheese, or cheese below standard 

 in milk fat as cheese is a violation of the law. 



The sale of compound ice-cream or an ice-cream below standard in 

 butter fat as ice-cream, without making in the fact known to the pur- 

 chaser, is a violation of the law. 



The sale of canned vegetables colored with copper sulphate is a viola- 

 tion of the law. 



The attention of dealers is again especially called to the definitions 

 and standards for the above products, reported elsewhere in this Bul- 

 letin. 



STANDARDS AXD REGULATIONS 



NOTES ON 



The Food Law provides that the Board of Agriculture shall adopt 

 and publish standards of strength and purity and regulations for the 

 enforcement of the law, and that these standards when adopted and pub- 

 lished shall become the standards before all courts of the State. 



These standards and regulations have been adopted and published in 

 the Food Report from time to time, as well as otherwise in pamphlet 

 form, copies of which will be sent on application. The standards adopted 

 by the Board have been carefully worked out by food experts and gov- 

 ernment officials and have been adopted by the Federal Government and 

 most of the States that are enforcing food laws. 



The Law provides that food products shall be deemed to be adulterated 

 if they do not equal in strength and purity the standards adopted by the 

 Board of Agriculture. 



