The Bulletin. 



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CIDERS AND IMITATION CIDERS. 



-2 ^ 



2 s 



— — a 



o o a) 



11891 

 11892 

 11890 

 11889 

 11405 

 12254 

 11857 

 11404 

 11108 

 12065 

 12250 

 12317 

 12067 

 12640 

 11050 

 11049 

 11051 

 12333 

 12334 

 11910 

 11688 

 11762 

 12628 



Remarks and Conclusions. 



5.27 Compound cider. 



6.00 do. 



6.25 do. 



4.55 do. 



1.55 .Cider. 

 [Compound cider, preserved with benzoate. 



7.05 Compound cider. 



9.35'cider. 



7.95 Compound cider. 



7.25 Cider. 



6.22 Imitation cider. 



6.23 ( Compound cider. 



5 . 75 Imitation cider, artificially colored and 



limitation cider, preserved with benzoate. 



24 Imitation cider. 



preserved with benzoate. 



14 do. 



55 do. 



72 Compound cider. 



70 do. 



12 do. 



16 Imitation cider; sale as cider illegal. 



01 Compound cider. 



361 do. 



coffee than if so much roasted starch and caramel had been added to it. 

 Chicory is not added to coffee to give it strength, but to cheapen the 

 product. 



The addition of chicory or any other substance to coffee, without 

 statiug the fact on the label, is a violation of the law. Chicory and 

 cereals cost less than one-fifth the price of coffee. Then, why pay the 

 price of coffee for chicory and cereals when the latter are mixed with 

 coffee? 



Of these, 94 samples were examined, 13 of which appear to have been 

 adulterated, misbranded, or misrepresented by the retail dealer. Four 

 samples, Nos. 12138, 12140, 12506, and 12491, were sold under so-called 

 "proprietary" or "distinctive" names, "North State" and "My Kind." 



There appears to be no good reason why a product that is in no way 

 distinctive in its composition or character should be sold under a dis- 

 tinctive name, except as a subterfuge, to evade the placing of the real 

 name on the package, and to make it easier for a product like these to 

 be misrepresented and sold as coffee, as was the case in the sale of two 

 of these samples. They are merely coffee and chicory, or coffee, chicory, 

 and cereal, and are not unlike in any particular many other such prod- 

 ucts on the market. They should be plainly labeled what they are, so 

 there would or could be no deception about them. 



Eetail dealers are cautioned that the sale of these products as coffee 

 will be prosecuted as violations of the Food LaAv. 



