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a willingness, but an earnest desire to comply with all the provi- 

 sions laid down in the law itself, and are willing to cooperate in 

 every possible way in making the same effective and practical in its 

 operation. 



In a current issue of one of the pharmaceutical journals, it re- 

 fers to the law in these words: "Don't worry over the pure food 

 and drug act of 1906, unless you sell goods in some state other than 

 the one in which you live. Every article which you have in your 

 stock January 1, 1907, may be sold to your home trade without re- 

 striction, and all articles which you receive after January 1, will be 

 pure and will conform to the new law, and you will be held harmless 

 under its operations, provided you purchase your supplies from a 

 reputable house whose guaranty is registered at Washington." It 

 further states that "we will guarantee that all articles of food 

 or drugs manufactured, packed, distributed or sold by us, including 

 both food and powdered drugs, chemicals, pharmaceutical prepara- 

 tions, medicinal specialties, proprietary medicines, etc., are not 

 misbranded within the meaning of said act," 



Few members of the community realize what an immense amount 

 of work will be required for the manufacturer and wholesale dealer 

 to comply with section 8 of the law relating to labeling by the time 

 specified. The major part of the work on the part of the manufac- 

 turer and dealer lies in the direction of taking care of the stock 

 which is already distributed among wholesale dealers and jobbers, 

 Some are inclined to make the statement that if the law be rigidly 

 enforced as to these already distributed goods it will be practically 

 inoperative because of the difficulty of carrying out its provisions. 



One firm has made the statement that it will require 100 extra 

 men from this time on to go over the stock that is now distributed 

 in the wholesale market, stored away in original packages, which 

 will have to be opened and repacked, to say nothing of the goods 

 that they are obliged to put out between now and January 1, if 

 obliged to distribute them as they have been accustomed to do, for 

 the reason that it will take them at least a month or more to re- 

 adjust their different departments to comply with the law in con- 

 nection with the goods that will be shipped after the 1st of January, 

 We believe that, while there are a great many complications and 

 numerous adjustments to be made. Doctor Wiley is going to take 

 the position that the manufacturers of the country as a rule are 

 honest and upright citizens. He said, in his interview with the 

 manufacturers and proprietors of medicinal agents, that the execu- 

 tion of the law rested more in their hands than in the judicial de- 



