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The Bulletin 



RESULTS OP THE EXAMINATION OF COP 





Material and Brand 

 from Label 



15324 Coffee and Chicory, Gold 



Seal. 

 15320 Cofifee and Chicory, Red 



Cross. 

 14719 Coffee and Chicory, Red 



Cross. 

 15330 



15329 Coffee and Chicory, My 



i Choice. 

 15322 ....do.. 



Manufacturer or Wholesaler 



Retail Dealer or Party Who 

 Sent Sample for Analysis 



Southern Coffee Co., Birmingham, W. B. Ratliffe, Marion. 

 Ala. 



Southern Coffee Co., New Orleans, J. A. Morris & Bro., Thomasville. 

 La. ' 



do Planters Trading Co., Laurin- 



burg. 



F. W. Wagener & Co., Charleston, A. N. Jenkins & Co., Brevard 



S. C. 



Edw. Weston Tea & Spice Co., St. Thomason & Ramsey, Brevard- 

 Louis, Mo. 

 ..do L. M. Park, Lenoir 



FLOUR 



DEFINITIONS AND STANDARDS. 



Flour is the fine, clean, sound product made by bolting wheat meal 

 and contains not more than 13.5 per cent of moisture, not less than 

 1.25 per cent of nitrogen, not more than 1 per cent of ash, and not 

 more than 0.50 per cent of fiber. 



HEGVLATIO^— Self-Rising Flour. 



"When a leavening agent or baking powder is added to flour and the 

 flour becomes what is known as "self-rising flour" the same shall have 

 plainly stated on the bag, barrel or other package, and in connection 

 with the words "self-rising flour," the name of the acid salt of which the 

 powder or leavening agent is made, as is provided for by regulation on 

 baking powder. 



Very little adulteration is found in flour, except what is produced by 

 the bleaching of it. A food product is adulterated : If it be mixed, 

 colored, powdered, coated or stained in a manner whereby damage or 

 inferiority is concealed, or if it contains any added poisonous or other 

 added deleterious substances which may render such food injurious 

 to health. 



The bleaching of flour by the nitrogen peroxide process leaves a 

 small amount of the nitrogen peroxide, a poisonous substance, in the 

 flour. iSTitrogen peroxide is poisonous beyond question, and if much of 

 it were left in the flour after bleaching it would unquestionably render 

 the flour deleterious to health, and, therefore so adulterated that its 

 sale would be positively prohibited, but the small amount of the poisonous 

 substance left in the flour may not be sufficient to justify prohibiting 

 its use in bleaching. Further scientific investigation will determine 

 that point. 



