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OLEOMARGARINE 295 



Now, in the case of food : 



If any substance or substances have been mixed with it, so as to lower or 

 depreciate, or injuriously affect its quality, strength, or purity; (2) if any inferior 

 or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for it; 

 (3) if any valuable or necessary constituent or ingredient has been wholly or in part 

 abstracted from it; (4) if it is an imitation of or is sold under the name of another 

 article; (5) if it consists wholly, or in part, of a diseased, decomposed, putrid, 

 infected, tainted, or rotton animal or vegetable substance or article, whether manu- 

 factured or not; or, in the case of milk, if it is the produce of a diseased animal; 

 (6) if it is colored, coated, polished, or powdered, whereby damage or inferiority is 

 concealed, or if by any means it is made to appear better or of greater value than it 

 really is; (7) if it contains any added substance or ingredient which is poisonous or 

 injurious to health. 



This, gentlemen, I claim would cover and is sufficient to cover any 

 possible adulteration. Among some of the prosecutions which have been 

 brought under this section are prosecutions for adulteration of milk. 

 The guileless farmer brings to town and sells us milk which we find is 

 preserved sometimes with borax, sometimes with salicylic acid, some- 

 times with formaldehyde; but they seem to know how to preserve their 

 milk, if they do not know how to make butter. 



We have another act to prevent adulteration and deception in the 

 sale of dairy products, passed later on. Part of one of the provisions 

 of that act is : 



And the words " butter," " creamery," or "dairy," or any word or combination of 

 words embracing the same, shall not be placed on any vessel, package, roll, or parcel 

 containing any imitation dairy product or substance not wholly made from pure 

 milk, or cream, salt, and harmless coloring matter. 



And another provision: 



No person shall sell any oleomargarine, suine, imitation cheese, or other imitation 

 dairy product, at retail or in any quantity less than the original package, tub, or 

 firkin, unless he shall first inform the purchaser that the substance is not butter or 

 cheese, but an imitation of the same. 



Still another act the act under which most of the prosecutions now 

 are brought a first-class act, excepting the color clause and the pro- 

 vision about advising the purchaser. This act was passed May 16, 

 1894: 



SECTION 1. Beit enacted ly the general assembly of the State of Ohio, That no person 

 shall manufacture, offer or expose for sale 



And I want the committee to remember the u shall manufacture n 

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sell or deliver, or have in his possession with intent to sell or deliver, any oleomar- 

 garine which contains any methyl orange, butter yellow, annotto, aniline dye, or 

 any other coloring matter. 



That prevents the factory from manufacturing, even for exporting 

 purposes, colored oleomargarine. It can not make it. at all. 



SEC. 2. Every person who shall offer or expose for sale, sell or deliver, or have in 

 his possession with intent to sell or deliver, any oleomargarine, shall keep a white 

 placard, not less in size than 10 by 14 inches, in a conspicuous place where the same 

 may be easily seen and read, in the store, room, stand, booth, vehicle, or place where 

 such substance is offered or exposed for sale, on which placard shall be printed in 

 black letters, not less in size than one and one-half inches square, the words, 

 "Oleomargarine sold here/' and said placard shall not contain any other words than 

 the ones described; and no person shall sell or deliver any oleomargarine unless it 

 be done under its true name, and each package has on the upper side thereof a label 

 on which is printed, in letters not less than five-eighths of an inch square, the word 

 " Oleomargarine," and in letters not less than one-eighth of an inch square the name 

 and per cent of each ingredient therein. 



