STANDARDS OF PURITY FOR FOOD PRODUCTS." 



Whereas the Congress of the United States by an act approved June 3, 1902, author- 

 ized the Secretary of Agriculture to establish standards of purity for food products; 

 and 



Whereas he was empowered by this act to consult with the committee on food 

 standards of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists and other experts in 

 determining these standards; and 



Whereas he has in accordance with the provisions of the act availed himself of the 

 counsel and advice of these experts and of the trade interests touching the products 

 for which standards have been determined and has reached certain conclusions 

 based on the general principles of examination and conduct hereinafter mentioned: & 

 Therefore, I, James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, do hereby proclaim and 

 establish the following standards for purity of food products together with their pre- 

 cedent definitions as the official standards [of these food products for the United 

 States of America. 



JAMES WILSON. 

 WASHINGTON, D. C., November 21, 1903. 



FOOD DEFINITIONS AND STANDARDS. 



I. ANIMAL PRODUCTS. 



A. MEATS AND THE PRINCIPAL MEAT PRODUCTS. 

 a. MEATS. 

 Definitions. 



1. Meat is any sound, dressed, and properly prepared edible part of animals in 

 good health at the time of slaughter. The term ''animals," as herein used, includes 

 not only mammals, but fish, fowl, crustaceans, mollusks, and all other animals used 

 as food. 



2. Fresh meat is meat from animals recently slaughtered or preserved only by 

 refrigeration. 



3. Salted, pickled, and smoked meats are unmixed meats preserved by salt, sugar, 

 vinegar, spices, or smoke, singly or in combination, whether in bulk or in packages. 



Standard. 



Standard meat, fresh meat, and salted, pickled, and smoked meats are such as conform 

 respectively to the foregoing definitions. 



b. MANUFACTURED MEATS. 



Definition. 



1. Manufactured meats are meats not included in definitions 2 and 3, whether sim- 

 ple or mixed, whole or comminuted, in bulk or packages, with or without the addi- 

 tion of salt, sugar, vinegar, spices, smoke, oils, or rendered fat. 



aU. S. Dept. Agr., Office of the Secretary, Circular No. 10. 

 b See Circular No. 10. 



