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PRESERVES. 



Preserves is the sound product made from clean, sound, properly 

 matured and prepared fresh fruit and sugar (sucrose) syrup, with or 

 without spices or vinegar, and conforms in name to that of the fruit 

 used, and in its preparation not less than forty-five pounds of fruit 

 are used to each fifty-five pounds of sugar. 



All preserves containing ingredients other than those named above 

 should be so labeled that the fact would be made known to the pur- 

 chaser, or the product will be regarded as adulterated. 



Before the subject of food adulteration was so much agitated and 

 the enforcement of food laws, preserves were much adulterated with 

 coal-tar dyes and chemical preservatives, but their use is rapidly 



RESULTS OF THE EXAM 



PICKLES. 



Pickles are clean, sound, immature cucumbers, properly prepared, 

 without taking up any metallic compound other than salt, and pre- 

 served in any kind of vinegar, with or without spices ; pickled onions, 

 pickled beets, pickled beans, and other pickled vegetables are vege- 

 tables prepared as described above, and conform in name to the 

 vegetables used. 



RESULTS OF THE EXAM 



SI 



6644 

 6643 

 6641 

 6439 

 6342 



Material and Brand 

 from Label. 



Pickles, sweet, Empire. 

 Pickles, sour, Empire . . 



Pickles, sour, Heinz 



Pickles, Pin Money 



Pickles, sweet, Peaches. 



Manufacturer or Wholesaler. 



Horton-Cato Mfg. Co., Detroit, Mich. 

 do 



H. J. Heinz Co., Pittsburg, Pa 



Mrs. E. G. Kidd, Richmond, Va 



W. N. Clark & Co., Rochester, N. Y. 



