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CAL FRUIT PRESERVING POWDERS— Continued. 



to have been properly branded, that is, where they were below standard 

 they were so labeled as to indicate the fact, but the retail dealers of six 

 of them, when offering the same for sale at retail misrepresented them 

 and sold them for cheese, when under the law they are not cheeses, but 

 substitutes for same. The food law provides that if a food product 

 is below the standard of purity and strength adopted by the Board of 

 Agriculture it is deemed to be adulterated and its sale a violation of 

 the law. It seems to be the practice of many dealers to buy skim-milk 

 <3heese, compound cheese, etc., and though the product is plainly labeled 

 what it is they sell it for cheese and get the price of cheese for 

 it. This is a violation of the law and if continued will have to be pros- 

 >ecuted under the food law. 



<JHEESES AND CHEESE SUBSTITUTES. 



