6 The Bulletin. 



GENERAL STATEMENT. 



When of general interest or when it will facilitate the enforcement 

 of the Food Law, examinations Avill be made of food or beverages for 

 parties within the State, provided samples of same are taken and 

 sent to the Food Chemist in accordance with instructions from the 

 Department, and the required information concerning the sample is 

 furnished. 



Results of analyses are sent to parties sending samples and parties 

 from whom samples are obtained by the Department, as well as the 

 manufacturer of the products. 



It is the desire of the Department to put information into the 

 hands of manufacturers, dealers and consumers of food, and to assist 

 them in every way it can to know and manufacture, handle and use 

 the best, most desirable and most wholesome food products. The 

 Food Control is in the interest of the honest manufacturer, the honest 

 dealer, and for the protection of the consumer. 



EXTRACT FROM FOOD LAW 



The following extract from the Pure Food law is very important, 

 and the same is herewith printed in order that the grocerymen may 

 become more familiar with the requirements of the law. 



State Food Law, section 6, defines and describes what constitutes 

 food adulteration. Section 7 defines and describes what constitutes 

 the misbranding of food products. Section 9 provides for a guaranty 

 by which the retail dealer may be exempt from prosecution for vio- 

 lation of the law. 



EXTRACT FROM FOOD LAW. 



Sec. 6. That for the purpose of this act an article shall be deemed to be 

 adulterated, in the case of food — 



First. If any substance has been mixed or packed with it, so as to reduce or 

 lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength. 



Second. If any substance has been substituted, wholly or in part, for the 

 article. 



Third. H any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part 

 abstracted. 



Fourth. If it be mixed, colored, powdered, coated or stained in a manner 

 whereby damage or inferiority is concealed. 



Fifth. If it contains any added poisonous or other added deleterious ingre- 

 dient which may render such article injurious to health. If it contains any of 

 the following substances, which are hereby declared deleterious and dangerous 

 to health when added to human food, to wit: Colors which contain antimony, 

 arsenic, barium, lead, cadmium, chromium, copper, mercury, uranium or zinc; 

 or the following colors: gamboge, corallin, picric acid, aniline, or any of the 

 coal-tar dyes; dulcin, glucin, or any other artificially or synthetically prepared 

 substitute for sugar except saccharine; paraffin, formaldehyde, beta-naphthol, 

 abrastol, benzoic acid or benzoates, salicylic acid or salicylates, boric acid or 

 borates, sulphurous acid or sulphites, hydrofluoric acid or any fluorine com- 

 pounds, sulphuric acid or potassium sulphate or wood alcohol : Provided, that 

 catsups and condimental sauces may, when the fact is plainly and legibly stated 

 in the English language on the wrapper and label of the package in which it is 



