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if ranners are widely ecattered, this, as a matter of course, will increase the number 

 numerically — not in proportion to the pack. 



11. The inspection covers sanitation in plants, quarters for employees, and sani- 

 tation of the product. It is also proposed, as the work progresses, to apply inspection 

 to the character of the raw product, and grading of the same. This grading on staples 

 will be worked out on recommendation frcm the adAisory board, which will be har- 

 monized so as to give a uniform grade to each product through the entire country. 



12. In localities where inspection has been installed, local laboratories purchased 

 and financed by the funds for inspection, have been found most useful. These 

 laboratories furnish prompt facilities for canners for testing their product and working 

 out manufacturing problems which come up during the activities of the canning 

 sea,son. These laboratories are established and work in harmony with the research 

 laboratories of the National Canners' Association, Washington. D. C 



13. This inspection can well be made the basis of a consistent publicity advertising 

 campaign, should the industry adopt it <jenerally, in time to guarantee its working 

 satisfactorily during the canning season of 1919. The present plan, however, does 

 not include this publicity campaign, as this is a matter which must necessarily be 

 passed upon later by the canners themselves. 



14. Copy of contract with each canner is herewith inclosed, or information. 



On February 17, 1919, the matter of adopting this inspection system 

 was submitted to the salmon canners of the Pacific coast and accepted 

 bv a large majority. A chief inspector and a number of assistants 

 were appointed, who carried on a sanitary inspection of the various 

 canneries during the following summer. It is the intention ulti- 

 mately to extend this inspection to the pack itself. 



INVESTIGATION OF CANNED SALMON INDUSTRY, 



In 1917 and 1918 an investigation of the canned salmon industry 

 was made by the Federal Trade Commission and many valuable 

 statistical data were gathered and published.'' 



The following table shows, with other data, the average number 

 of fish per case of each grade packed in the different geographical 

 sections. 



Number of Fish Canned and Purchased, Number of Cases Packed, and Aver- 

 age Number of Fish Per Case. ^ 



o Report ol the Federal Trwdo f ommission on Canned Foods. Canned salmon. December, 1918. 

 Washington, 1919. 

 b Report of the Federal Trade Commission: Op. cit., pp. IS, 1& 

 t Coastal streams in Washington, Oregon, and California. 



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