REPORT ON FOOD ADULTERATION FOR 1914. 



By W. M. ALLEN, State Food and Oil Chemist, 



ASSISTED BY 



E. W. THORNTON, Assistant Chemist, 

 C. E. BELL, Assistant Chemist. 



Report on Food Adulteration and the Enforcement of Food Law for 

 1914— the fifteenth annual report on the subject. 



THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW. 



The State Food Law, chapter 368, Public Laws of North Carolina, 

 1907, makes it the duty of the State Department of Agriculture to en- 

 force the food law. The law provides that the Board of Agriculture 

 shall adopt and publish standards of strength and purity for food 

 products and regulations for the enforcement of the law. Such stand- 

 ards and regulations have been adopted and published in the Annual 

 Food Reports from time to time, as well as in pamphlet form, and have 

 been sent to the dealers of the State, and will be sent on application to 

 any citizen of the State. 



The Department has spent a great deal of time and money during the 

 past fourteen years trying to show the dealers of the State the require- 

 ments of the food law and how to comply with the same. As the dealers 

 have now had time and opportunity to know the law and its require- 

 ments, it will be the policy of the Department to prosecute cases when 

 similar ones have in the past been dismissed because of lack of informa- 

 tion on the part of the dealer in regard to the law and its requirements. 



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 mis- 

 branding of food products. Section 9 provides for a guaranty by which 

 the retail dealer may be exempt from prosecution for violation of the 

 1/iw. 



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. 



