INSPECTION OF DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED FOODS. 



[Under the food and drugs act, June 30, 1906.] 



BOARD OF FOOD AND DRUG INSPECTION. 



The Board of Food and Drug Inspection is a departmental board. 

 Its work, however, is so closely related to the work of the Bureau of 

 |Chemistry that it is proper here to describe its organization, func- 

 tions, and personnel. 



The board was created by the Secretary of Agriculture on April 

 25, 1907, through General Order No. 111. The duties of the board 

 are to consider all questions arising in the enforcement of the food 

 and drugs act of June 30, 1906, upon which the decision of the Sec- 

 [retary of Agriculture is necessary; to consider and supervise all cor- 

 respondence involving interpretations of the law and questions arising 

 under the law; and to conduct all hearings based upon alleged vio- 

 lations of the food and drugs act of June 30, 1906. The Bureau of 

 Chemistry is charged under the act to perform whatever analytical 

 work may be required for the information of the board. The board 

 reports directly to the Secretary. The personnel is as follows: H. W. 

 Wiley, Chemist and Chief of Bureau, chairman; F. L. Dunlap, Asso- 

 ciate Chemist, and G. P. McCabe, Solicitor of the Department. 



WORK OF THE BUREAU. 



While all of the divisions and laboratories of the Bureau cooperate 

 to a greater or less degree in the analytical work contingent upon 

 the inspection of foods and drugs, the Bureau organization directly 

 concerned in the administration of the law is as follows, the per- 

 sonnel being shown in the list on page 2 : 



The Division of Foods is in charge of the analytical work on foods 

 performed at the central Bureau in the enforcement of the law, and 

 makes check analyses on doubtful samples referred to it by the food 

 and drug inspection laboratories and renders the final decision as to 

 the analytical results. The Division of Drugs performs the same 

 work in regard to drugs, medicines, etc. The chief of the Division 

 of Foods, who is also Assistant Chief of Bureau, installs the inspec- 

 tion laboratories and has charge of the administrative detail in con- 

 nection with their work, although the chiefs of these laboratories 

 report directly to the Chief of Bureau, who is charged by the Secre- 

 tary with the details of Bureau administration involved. The pro- 



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