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pure. Candies, extracts and flavoring matter of all kinds carry injur- 

 ious ingredients to an alarming extent. Oysters are universally pre- 

 served for shipment. Vinegars are sold as cider vinegars, though largely 

 distilled from grains. Jellies, jams and similar goods are usually made 

 vv^ith a glucose filler. The same is true of honey and sorghums. Buck- 

 wheat flour is almost never pure. Catsups and a large list of prepared 

 foods are colored to cover up inferior stock, and preserved with a chemi- 

 cal that is in most cases deleterious to health. Sugars are adulterated, 

 as are other sweets, by the use of glucose, or corn sugar. Mustards and 

 ground spices of almost every variety are fruitful sources of profit to the 

 adulterator of foods. 



Together with the reports of the chemist mentioned above, will be 

 found a list of articles adulterated and their adulterants, taken from a 

 Congressional report. 



The states around us have food laws that are more or less affective, 

 and from personal investigations and conversations with the officials of 

 these states and with the salesmen in this and other states, your com- 

 mittee is convinced that Iowa is the dumping-ground for the impure foods 

 driven out of other states. Legislation to protect our people is urgently 

 needed, and with the co-operation of Senator B. W. Newberry, of Clayton 

 county, and Representative B. F. Cummings, of Marshall county, your 

 committee has prepared a bill to cover the situation. This bill is sub- 

 mitted for j'our consideration, with the recommendation that, if 

 approved, the bill be transmitted to the Governor with the request that he 

 recommend the measure in his message to the General Assembly. 



COPY OF IOWA STATE PURE FOOD LAW. 



As Enacted by the 31st General Assembly, Feb., 1906. 

 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 



Section 1. The State Dairy Commissioner shall, by this act, become 

 the State Food and Dairy Commissioner, and shall, on and after 

 taking effect of this act, have all the powers, compensations and allow- 

 ances, and shall be charged with all the duties now imposed by law upon 

 the State Dairy Commissioner. 



Sec. 2. In addition to his powers and duties as provided in section 

 one (1) hereof, the commissioner shall be charged with the duty of 

 carrying into effect the provisions of this act and shall have an official 

 seal. He maj'', with the approval of the Executive Council, appoint such 

 assistants as he may deem necessary, who may exercise the powers now 

 provided by law in the case of milk inspectors, together with those con- 

 ferred by this act. They shall be paid not to exceed five dollars a day 



Note. The bill as herewith printed is the orig-inal bill as drawn by the pure 

 food committee, with amendments adopted by the Thirt5^-First General 

 Assembly, and passed by unamious vote of both branches of the legislature 

 and sig-ned by the Governor. The bill becomes operative July fourth, and 

 under its provisions the State Dairy Commissioner becomes the "State Food 

 and Dairy Commissioner" for the State of Iowa. Much credit for the passage 

 of this bill is due to Hon. S. B. Packard, chairman of the Pure Food Committee 

 of the State Board of Agriculture: to Dairy Commissioner H.R.Wright, Sen- 

 ator B. W. Newberry and Hon. B. F. Cummings, the last two named gentlemen 

 having charge of the measure in their respective branches of the legislature. 

 Advocates of pure food legislation owe to all these gentlemen a debt of grati- 

 tude for their efforts in securing the passage of this hill.— Editor. 



