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recommendations which will obviate the loss due to the storing of 

 loeets indiscriminately. Tliis work has been directly under the super- 

 vision of Mr. Paine.' They have been concerning themselves par- 

 ticularlv with the removal of those impurities that are in beets or in 

 the molas.ses as a result of the deterioration of the beet through 

 storage which prevent crvstalization. Tlie solution of that question 

 is a complicated inchistrial chemical problem. 



We have made splendid progress on it. We have made applica- 

 tion for a pul)li(' service patent, and we are expecting to effect arrange- 

 ments bv which the results obtained on a laboratory scale can be 

 worked out in actual factory production. 



FOR EXFORCEMENT OF THE FOOD AND DRUGS ACT. 



Mr. Anderson. We will now go to the next item. 



Mr. Campbell. The next is me appropriation for the food and 

 drugs act, page 178. We are asking for an increase in that appro- 

 priation, ^lr. Chairman. I stated to you last year that while we 

 were asking for no increase at that period I foresaw that the appro- 

 priate representative of the bureau would come before and ask 

 very early for an increase in the fund. 



The enforcement of this law is getting more difficult and more 

 expensive every year. That is naturally to be expected. The 

 conditions with which we are confronted at the present time in its 

 enforcement are quite different from those that obtaineil originally. 



The forms of sophistication that exist now are more subtle and 

 more devious than those that were originall}' encountered. The 

 enforcement of the law does not involve the simple mechanical 

 operation of going out and collecting a sample and showing that it 

 had been shipped in interstate commerce and in making a simple 

 examination to prove that the product claimed to be in that package 

 was not that product at all. Proper enforcement now requires 

 thorough study to determine methods which can be emploved by 

 these laboratories engaged in the simpler form of work, for the pur- 



fose of identifying tlie type of adulteration that has taken place, 

 t is necessary, in those cii'cumstances, to devote some of this fund 

 to the laboratories that we designate as staff laboratories in the 

 bureau, which are giving concentrated study to these types of adul- 

 teration and to the question of evolving some methocf by wliich, 

 upon tlie examination of an objective sample, this form of adulteration 

 can be detected. 



Of course, that is no simple and no easy matter. And to the ex- 

 tent that we employ money for that purpose in carrvin^ on those 

 various studies which are essential and which form the basis upon 

 wJiicii all of our work depends, to that extent we witlulraw from the 

 active field opei-atioiis funds that would otherwise be spent in the eiii- 

 j)loyiiient of inspectors and analysts to be stationed in our branch 

 laboratories. We have a very material dej)letion in force, from the 

 standpoint of field activity. We have now less than 40 inspectors 

 where we forineriy had n staff of al inspectors. The force, as a matter 

 of fact, if we are to niainlaiii the same standard of elliciency in our 

 operations, .siiould be increa.sed in proportion to the increasing dilli- 

 cultie8 that we encounter, but the convei-se of that is true now. 



