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the line of Pure Foods. We would be pleased to have him speak 

 a few minutes and then we will listen to Prof. Watts, with the 

 understanding that we are to have the manuscripts of Mr. Banzhoff 

 and of Prof. Mairs for publication in our proceedings. 



Mr. Banzhoff, representing Dr. Warren, addressed the Normal 

 Institute as follows: 



THE ENFOECEMENT.OF THE DAIRY AND FOOD LAWS. 



By MR. H. L. BANZHOFF, Special Agent, Dairy and Food Division, Department of Agriculture. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: Dr. B. H. Warren, Dairy 

 and Food Commissioner, whom you have selected to speak to you 

 on the subject — "The Enforcement of the Dairy and Food Laws" 

 has been called to Washington, D. C, in consultation with President 

 Roosevelt, in regard to the present meat investigation, and has re- 

 quested me to speak to you on the above subject. Understand, how- 

 ever, not to take his place on the program, for this I am quite sure 

 I would be unable to do, but I am glad, however, for this opportunity 

 to meet with the representative farmers of the State of Pennsylva- 

 nia, and, in greeting you, to give to you as briefly as possible on ac- 

 count of what is being done by the State in the direction of secur- 

 ing pure food. 



The Pure Food Laws of the State of Pennsylvania, were enacted 

 by the law-making body of our State, and signed by the Governor. 

 These laws were not enacted to benefit a few, but for the protec- 

 tion of the masses. Yes, Mr. Chairman, I dare say to protect you 

 and your family as well as every family that is represented here 

 to-day from being forced to eat adulterated foods,- or foods which 

 contain preservatives, which are poisonous in nature and injurious 

 to health. Did you ever think for a moment, when you sit down to 

 partake of your meal, breakfast, dinner and supper, that you were 

 unconsciously partaking of doses of chemicals, many of which are 

 poisonous in their nature? I imagine I hear some one say, "Do you 

 mean to tell me that there are manufacturers in the State of Penn- 

 sylvania as well as in all other states, that deliberately and know- 

 ingly use preservatives in the manufacture of foods which are ab- 

 solutely poisonous in their nature and injurious to health?" To 

 prove this fact, I call your attention tr the first four thousand sam- 

 ples of various food j>roducts that were purchased under the direction 

 of Dr. B. H. Warren, our Dairy and Food Commissioner, of which 

 82 per cent, of the same were sold in violation of the Pure Food 

 Laws of the State, and proven by chemical analysis to be adulterated, 

 while many were poisonous in character and injurious to health. 



Let me call your attention to a few of these that your family and 

 my family partake of daily: 1st. steak, or Hamburger steak, pre- 

 served with sulphites and colored with coal-tar dye. Fresh pork 

 sausage, preserved with sulphites and colored with coal-tar dye. Bo- 

 logna sausage, liver pudding, veal loaf, pressed ham, shredded cod 

 fish, and many others that I might mention, preserved with boric 

 acid and other ingredients injurious to health. Milk pre«erved with 



