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as malt vinegar, wine or grape vinegar, sugar or sirup vinegar, spirit 

 vinegar, and compound vinegar, the latter being a mixture of vinegar 

 and one or more of the others. 



It seems to be the custom among dealers that when a customer calls 

 for vinegar, to furnish him with compound vinegar or any one of these 

 substitutes for vinegar that the dealer happens to have. The sale of 

 any of these substitutes for vinegar as vinegar, without making the 

 character of the product known to the purchaser, is a violation of the 

 law, and will have to be prosecuted by the Department. 



SIRUPS AND MOLASSES. 



Sirup, under both the State and National Food Laws, is a product 

 made by evaporating the juice of a sugar-producing plant without 

 removing any of the sugar. A product so made is sirup and can be 

 sold as sirup ; no other product is sirup, and no other product can be 

 legally sold simply as sirup. 



Glucose or corn sirup is made from starch, and not from the juice 

 of a plant, and is, therefore, not a true sirup, and cannot be sold simply 

 as sirup. It can be sold as glucose sirup, or corn sirup, but not as 

 sirup, for, as said above, it is not a true sirup. It doees not contain 

 the sugar of a true sirup, and the sale of it as sirup is a violation of 

 the law. 



When corn sirup is mixed with sirup, refiner's sirup, or molasses, it 

 forms a compound corn sirup, and must be sold as a compound or the 

 sale will be a violation of the law. 



Dealers are cautioned that the sale of refiner's sirup, or glucose or 

 com sirup, or any other substitute or compound sirup as sirup, will 

 have to be prosecuted as a violation of the law. 



Molasses is not sirup and sirup is not molasses, and dealers are cau- 

 tioned that the sale of molasses as sirup, or the sale of sirup as molasses, 

 is a violation of the law. 



CANNED VEGETABLES COLORED WITH COPPER SALTS. 



The question of whether the greening of vegetables for human food 

 with copper salts constitutes a violation of the National Food Law 

 was referred by the Secretary of Agriculture to the Referee Board of 

 Consulting Scientific Experts. After an exhaustive investigation of the 

 subject, the Referee Board reports to the Secretary, in part, as follows : 



"It appears from our investigations, that in certain directions, even 

 such small quantities of copper may have a deleterious action and must 

 be considered injurious to health." 



As the use in food of an ingredient which may render the latter 

 injurious to health is a violation of the State Food Law, and as the 

 Referee Board has said that small quantities of copper in food must 

 be considered injurious to health, this Department will in the future 

 consider the sale in North Carolina of vegetables colored with copper 

 salts a violation of the State Food Law. 



