FROM THE PRACTICAL VIEWPOINT 



tation are becoming more rapid, the effect is that 

 the world is becoming smaller, and so the consump- 

 tion of foods is not confined to the states where it 

 is produced. The increasing use of cold storage 

 facilities for preserving foods also adds to the wide 

 area from which cities and towns can obtain the 

 foods which are there consumed. It, therefore, 

 becomes evident that state regulation is too narrow. 

 In order to properly protect the citizens, therefore, 

 the general government has taken up, to a large 

 extent, the control of foods which enter into inter- 

 state commerce, and government standards are 

 adopted. 



Among the articles of food which have perhaps 

 received the largest share of attention we find milk. 

 This attention has been deserved on account of the 

 almost universal use of milk, and also on account 

 of the fact that it becomes easily infected with 

 dangerous bacteria, and having become infected it 

 is itself an ideally good medium for their growth. 

 The milk thus becomes so changed or decomposed 

 that it is frequently unsafe for food. The oppor- 

 tunities for infection are many, on account of the 

 many persons through whose hands it passes be- 

 fore it reaches the city consumer, and where it is 

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