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handle their products with strict regard to the legal requirements 

 before the season opens. In case such requirements are disregarded 

 it will be necessary to revoke their licenses which give them author- 

 ity to operate. The inspection shows that the present sanitary law 

 is too general in its requirements for canning factories. 



Written as it is so as to render it applicable to bakeries, confec- 

 tioneries, packing houses, slaughterhouses, dairies, creameries, res- 

 taurants, hotels, groceries, meat markets, and all other places where 



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food is manufactured or stored, our sanitary law neither goes into 

 sufficient detail nor is sufficiently specific to meet the needs of a can- 

 nery law. Under the sanitary law canners have difficulty in under- 

 standing what is required and the determination as to whether or not 

 certain practices are in violation of the law is quite frequently not 

 possible. To remedy this difficulty the sanitary law should be 

 amended by adding specific requirements for canning factories. 



Outbreaks of food poisoning which have occurred in the last few 

 years have stimulated investigations as to their cause and the Na- 

 tional Canners' Association, under the direction of Dr. Bigelow, has 

 been active in this work. Other noted workers in this field are: 

 Dr. M. J. Rosenau, of Harvard Medical School ; Dr. K. F. Meyer, 



