The Bulletin. 



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If rice is coated with glucose and talc, the label of the package must 

 bear the following statement : 



"Coated with glucose and talc. Kemove by washing." 



Five samples of rice were examined, three of which were polished 

 with glucose and talc and the fact was not stated on the label or made 

 known to the purchaser. The sale in each case was a violation of the 

 law. 



INATIONS OF RICE. 



8*: 



8.8 



Retail Dealer or Party Who 

 Sent Sample for Analysis. 



6453 Patterson Bros. Co., Durham 



6454 J. F. Powers & Son, Fayetteville. 



6455 Dixie Club Grocery Co., States- 



ville. 



6456 D. M. Wells, Hendersonville 



Adulterants. 



Glucose and talc. 

 do 



do 



None found. 



Remarks and Conclusions. 



Rice polished and the fact not 

 made known to purchaser, 

 do. 



do. 



Rice. 



thirty (30) per cent of water and not more than two and five-tenths 

 (2.5) per cent of ash. 



Maple syrup is syrup made by the evaporation of maple sap or by 

 the solution of maple concrete, and contains not more than thirty-two 

 (32) per cent of water and not less than forty-five hundredths (0.45) 

 per cent of maple syrup ash. 



Molasses, molasses compounds, syrups, compound syrups, etc., must 

 be labeled what they are. 



Whatever is required on the principal label of a package of molas- 

 ses, molasses compound, syrup, or compound syrup, must appear on 

 one end or head of the barrel or cask; and if the principal label, or 

 any part of it, appears on both ends of barrel or cask, they shall be 

 identical, one to the other. Retail dealers, while offering molasses 

 for sale, must keep the labeled end of cask or barrel up, so that the 

 label may be seen by purchaser or inspector, and the label must be so 

 kept that it will remain legible. 



It has been the custom to sell molasses, syrups, etc., and their com- 

 pounds unlabeled. That being the case, it was an easy matter for the 

 dealer to make all kinds of misrepresentations in regard to the prod- 

 uct. Under these conditions it was next to impossible to enforce the 

 law and to prevent a great deal of fraud in their sale. For this 

 reason, it became necessary to require these products to be properly 

 labeled, so that retail dealers and consumers may know what they 



