FOODS HUMAN NUTRITION. 863 



Food analyses, C. F. Juritz (Rpt. Senior Anal. Vapr Good Hope, 11)07, 

 pp. S7-97). — Tho materials analyzed imdei' the food and drug law Included milk 

 and milk products, vinegar, brandy, whisky, etc. A number of general food 

 analyses were also made including among others wines, spirits, lime juice, bush 

 tea, " mealina," and American and colonial meal. 



Food inspection decisions {U. S. Dept. Agr., Food Insp. Decisions .97, pp. 2; 

 its, pp. 2; <J9. pp. 2: liHl, pp 2; 101, pp. 2; 102, pp. 2; lOS, pp. 2).— The subjects 

 taken up are "soaked curd " cheese, the labeling of whisky compounds, change 

 in form of guaranty legend, bleached Hour, benzoate of soda, entry of vegetables 

 greened with copper salts, and the labeling of turpentine. 



Notices of judgment {U. S. Dept. Agr., Notices of Judgment 28-30, pp. 13; 

 36, 37, pp. 7). — The subjects included are the adulteration of milk, the adultera- 

 tion and misbranding of pepper and buckwheat flour, and the misbranding of 

 drug products, maple sirup, canned peaches and canned apples, and blackberries. 



The revised food and drug regulations of the Louisiana State Board of 

 Health, and food standards tXeir Orleans: Board of Health. I'JOf^, pp. GIf). — 

 'l"he full text of the food and drug law of Louisiana as revised to October 21, 

 1908. 



Labels and rulings, E. F. Ladd {North Dakota t^ta. Spec. Bui. 8, pp. 3). — 

 The resolutions adopted September 29 and 30, 1908, by a conference representing 

 several northwestern States and this Department are reported. The work of the 

 conference was to secure " harmony of action as to rulings, standai'ds and prin- 

 ciples, and to promote the uniform enforcement of the food laws and cooperation 

 among food otticials of the States of the Middle West." 



Mo.del food law bill, E. F. I.add ( North Dakota Sta. Spec. But. 10, pp. 11).— 

 A copy is presented of a draft of the imre food law suggested by a committee 

 appointed at the meeting held at Mackinac Island, Mich., August 4-7, 1908, of 

 the Association of State and National Food and Dairy Departments to draft a 

 bill which could be used as a general law in the several States and Territories, 

 and also a draft of a bill prepared by a similar committee providing for the 

 sanitary insi)ection of all establishments or other places where food is prepared 

 or distributed. 



Proposed uniform food law for the States (Anier. Food Jour., 3 (1908), 

 No. 12, pp. l-!i). — The text of a food law proposed by the committee i-'eferred to 

 above. 



Report of the proceedings of the twelfth annual convention of the Asso- 

 ciation of State and National Food and Dairy Departments (Anier. Food 

 Jour., 3 (1908), No. 8, pp. 1-12, figs. 17). — This report contains a list of officers 

 and an account of the proceedings of the 1908 meeting, the recommendations 

 and resolutions, and similar <lata. 



Meat inspection and legislation on this subject, H. ]Martki. ( Rer. Soc. Sei. 

 Ilyg. Aliment., 6 (1908), No. 1, pp. 39). — A sununary of legislation on this sub- 

 ject at present in force in France and a i)lea for additional legislation which 

 the author believes is needed. 



Practical hygiene, Alice Haveniiill (Leeds and Glasgow [1907], pp. U/// + 

 7 'r'h fig^- 139). — This volume, which is designed for school use, contains chap- 

 ters on the composition of foods, the effects of cooking, milk and the feeding of 

 infants, tests for the «piality of foodstuffs, methods of food iireservalion, ])ersonal 

 hygiene, and a study of soils, building materials, ventilation, etc., with reference 

 to dwellings, as well as chapters on the re(iuirenients of life and the human 

 body, etc. Directions are given for experimental work in connection with the 

 various chaitters. A l)ibliograi)hy. glossary, and index are ai)pended. 



Investigations of foot racers and bicycle racers, W. Pfeiffeb (Berlin. Klin. 

 Wchnsehr., .',.j (1908), No. 3, p. 93; abs. in Zentbl. Gcsam. Physiol, u. Path. 



