REPORT ON FOOD ADULTERATION FOR 1913. 



Br W. M. ALLEN, State Food Chemist, 



ASSISTED BY 



E. W. THORNTON, Assistant Chemist, 

 C. E. BELL, Assistant Chemist. 



Report on Food Adulteration and the Enforcement of Food Law 

 for 1913 — the fourteenth annual report on the subject. 



STANDARDS AND 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. Standards and regulations have been adopted 

 and published in the Food Reports from time to time, and copies in 

 pamphlet form will be sent on application. 



Dealers are cautioned to make themselves familiar with the law, the 

 standards and regulations under the Food Law, for they must be en- 

 forced. As the dealers have had time and opportunity to know the law, 

 etc., it will be the policy of the Department to prosecute cases where 

 similar ones have been dismissed because of the lack of information in 

 regard to the law. 



EXTRACT FROM FOOD LAW. 



NOTE ON. 



The following extract from the Pure Food Law is very important 

 and the same is herewith printed in order that the grocerymen may 

 become more familiar with the requirements of the law. 



State Food Law, section 6, defines and describes what constitutes 

 food adulteration. Section 7 defines and describes what constitutes the 

 misbranding of food products. Section 9 provides for a guaranty by 

 which the retail dealer may be exempt from prosecution for violation 

 of the law. 



EXTRACT FROM FOOD LAW. 



Sec. 6. That for the purpose of this act an article shall be deemed to be 

 adulterated, in the case of food — 



First. If any substance has been mixed or packed with it, so as to reduce 

 or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength. 



Second. If any substance has been substituted, wholly or in part, for the 

 article. 



Third. If any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part 



Fourth. If it be mixed, colored, powdered, coated, or stained in a manner 

 whereby damage or inferiority is concealed. 



Fifth. If it contains any added poisonous or other added deleterious ingre- 

 dient which may render such article injurious to health. If it contains any 

 of the following substances, which are hereby declared deleterious and dan- 



