vided that the examination of specimens of foods or dru^s shall be made in the Bureau 

 of Chemistry or under its direction and supervision. For the purpose of better 

 enforcing these provisions of the law State officials have been commissioned by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture in the States enforcing food laws and authorized to take 

 samples of foods and drugs according to the regulations of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, to procure the analysis of such samples from collaborating chem- 

 ists (who are commissioned to work in the several States in collaboration with the 

 Bureau of Chemistry), and to transmit the cases to the Secretary of Agriculture with 

 such other information as may be necessary to provide a basis for prosecution. The 

 names of the commissioned officials and collaborating chemists in the various States 

 and in the District of Columbia are as follows: 



State officials authorized to collect samples under the food and drugs act. 



State chemists appointed to collaborate with the Bureau of Chemistry under the food and 



drugs act. 



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