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will be recommended by this Department for manufacture and sale thereof in 

 the District of Columbia or the Territories or for transportation or sale in 

 interstate or foreign commerce for a period of six months from the date hereof. 



Immediately after the decision of the Secretary of Agriculture this 

 Department issued the following statement : 



The sale of flour bleached by the use of nitrogen peroxide is re- 

 garded as a violation of the State Food Law, and after June 1, 1909, 

 the sale in North Carolina of flour so bleached will be prosecuted. 



The examination of 222 samples of flour has been completed, and 

 the results show that 12 of them had been bleached, and were there- 

 fore sold in violation of the law. The results are published in the 

 table below. 



AMINATION OF FLOUR. 



2c 



,31 



665S 

 6663 

 6664 

 6665 

 6667 

 6670 

 6671 

 6672 

 6673 

 6674 

 6675 

 6676 

 6677 

 667S 

 6679 

 6681 

 6682 

 6684 

 6685 



Microscopic 

 Examination. 



Wheat product. 



do 



do. 



do 



do. 



.do 



do 



.do 



.do 



.do 



.do 



.do 



Nitrite Nitro- 

 gen Per Kilo 

 of Flour — Milli- 

 grams. 



None found. 



do 



do 



do 



..do 



..do 



..do 



...do 



...do 



...do 



...do 



...do 



.do. 



Adulterants. 



None found. 



..do 



..do..:.. 



..do 



..do 



..do 



..do 



..do 



..do 



..do 



..do 



..do 



.do. 

 .do. 



.do. 



.do. 

 .do. 



6687 



6689 



.do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 



.do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 



.do. 



.do. 

 .do. 



.do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 



Remarks and Conclusions. 



Flour, 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 



