ADULTERATION AND DETECTION. 157 



Some law should be passed in this country to ensure 

 the public against the possibility of purchasing spurious 

 and adulterated teas as in Russia, where the dealers are 

 compelled to sell their teas under government labels placed 

 on the packages by experts appointed by the Government 

 for that particular purpose and who work under official 

 inspectors, the expense of examining and labeling 

 being defrayed out of the revenue realized from the sale 

 of the labels to the dealers. To such an extent was the 

 nefarious practice carried on in that country that the 

 adoption of this system became imperative in order to 

 restore the confidence of the public in the genuineness 

 of the tea offered for sale, with the result of having 

 materially checked the traffic in spurious and adulterated 

 teas in that country. 



