82 



The Bulletin. 



CANNED PEAS. 



DEFINITIONS AND STANDARDS. 



Canned peas are sound, properly matured and prepared fresh peas 

 sterilized by lieat, kept in suitable, clean, hermetically sealed containers, 

 from which they take up no metallic substance, and conform in name to 

 the peas used in their preparation. 



The State Food Law provides that a food product shall be deemed to 

 be adulterated : If it be mixed, colored, powdered, coated, or stained in 

 a manner whereby damage or infirmity is concealed, or if it contains 

 any added poisonous or other added deleterious ingredient which may 

 render such article injurious to health. It is and has been quite a prac- 

 tice among packers to green or artificially color canned vegetables w4th 

 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 Eeferee Board of Con- 

 sulting Scientific Experts in March of 1909. After an exhaustive inves- 

 tigation of the subject the ''Referee Board" reports to the Secretary as 

 follows : 



RESULTS OF THE EXAMIXA 



