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Issued December 20, 1912. 



United States Department of Agriculture, 



BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY Circular No. 16, Revised. 

 R. E. DOOLITTLE, Acting Chief of Bureau. 



OFFICIALS CHARGED WITH THE FNFORCEMENT OF FOOD LAWS 

 IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. 



[Revised to July ], 1912.] 

 INTRODUCTION. 



The widespread interest in food legislation during the last few years has led to the 

 recent enactment of laws in a number of States where such legislation had not pre- 

 viously existed, and to the enforcement in other States of earlier legislation for which 

 no appropriations had previously been made. As a result, an increasingly large num- 

 ber of inquiries are received for the addresses of officials charged with the enforcement 

 of the laws in different States and the names of chemists and other officers engaged 

 hi various capacities in the same work. It is to meet this want that the present 

 circular is issued. 



At the present time a serious attempt is made in 44 States and in Hawaii, the Philip- 

 pine Islands, and Porto Rico to enforce more or less extensive regulations relating to 

 the purity and wholesome ness of food. The growing interest in this matter is well 

 illustrated by a comparison of these figures with those of 1905 when, in addition to 

 Hawaii and Porto Rico, only 25 States really enforced food laws. These numbers do 

 not include the States in which laws have been enacted without appropriations for 

 their enforcement. In addition to the Territory of Alaska, which comes within the 

 provisions of the Federal food and drugs act, there are only two States which have 

 not enacted special laws regulating the manufacture and sale of adulterated and mis- 

 branded food and only three States in which appropriations have not been made for 

 the enforcement of their laws. The funds appropriated by the several States for 

 the enforcement of the food laws are increasing, which fact results in a larger corps 

 of employees and more efficient inspection. 



The information in the succeeding pages was obtained from replies to a circular 

 letter sent to the authorities charged with the enforcement of the laws in the several 

 States. The list of municipal chemists was compiled from replies to a circular letter 

 sent to the boards of health of cities having a population of 30,000 and over. If this 

 information is incomplete or in any respect erroneous, corrections are requested from 

 any who notice such defects, in order that future editions may be free from such inac- 

 curacies. 



Acknowledgments of data furnished for this circular are made to Mr. Theodore L. 

 Cole, Washington, D. C., and to the food commissioners of the various States. The 

 collection of the data and their compilation are the work of Miss N. A. Parkinson, of 

 the Division of Foods. 



W. D. BlGELOW, 



Chief, Division of Foods. 

 Approved. 



JAMES WILSON, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 

 WASHINGTON, D. C., August 22, 1912. 

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