INSPECTION OF COMMERCIAL FEEDSTUFFS 



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Fish Liver Oils and Poultry Vitamin D Supplement 



Manufacturer and Brand 



Vitamin D 



A.O.A.C. Chick Units 



per Gram 



Guaranteed 



Remarks 



Dawe's Manufacturing Co. 



Dawe's Flavonne Ribo-D 40 



Gorfon-Pew Fisheries Co., Ltd. 



Gorton's Feeding Oil 400 



Marden-Wi!d Corp. 



Fortified Fisli Oil 100 



Cod Liver Oil 100 



National Oil Products Co. 



Nopco XX 400 



White Laboratories, Inc. 



Clo-Trate Feeding Oil 400 



Whitmoyer Laboratories. Inc. 



Quality Cod Liver Oil Concentrate 400 



Guarantee sustained 

 Guarantee sustained 



Guarantee sustained 

 Guarantee sustained 



Guarantee sustained 

 Guarantee sustained 

 Guarantee sustained 



Ground Oats 



A continued survey of the quality ot ground oats shipped into Massachusetts 

 shows a generally unsatisfactory situation. Although no samples showed the 

 presence of appreciable quantities of limestone or other minerals except sand 

 from screenings, the quality of some lots of ground oats bore little resemblance to 

 the claims on the labels. 



The Schafer Oat Products company, particularly, shipped into this State 

 som.e lots of so-called ground oats that, according to chemical and microscopic 

 examinations, appeared to be mj'xtures of ground oats, oat mill feed and refuse 

 screenings. The ground oats in some of these mixtures appeared to be a minor 

 ingredient. 



It was planned to submit the analytical and shipping data on the seriously- 

 deficient samples to the Federal Food and Drug Administration for prosecution. 

 However, it was learned that the com.pany's plant was destroyed by fire and that 

 the company intended to go out of business. 



It is beccm.ing obvious that the imposition of penalties in the form of rebates 

 will net succeed in eliminating the questionable practices of some feed manu- 

 facturers. In the future, analytical and shipping data will be submitted to the 

 Federal Food and Drug Administration for prosecution in all cases of seriously- 

 deficient mJxed feeds or feed ingredients shipped into Massachusetts by manu- 

 facturers proven to be chronic offenders. 



An examination of the table giving analytical and microscopic data on ground 

 oats will show that in some cases, although the chemical analysis indicates the 

 sam.ple to be as represented, microscopic examination proves otherwise. For 

 ground oats, especially, it is planned to place m.ore emphasis on microscopic 

 tests, using standard sam-.ples with known amounts of weed seeds and other 

 impurities added, to place these tests on a workable quantitative basis. 



An extensive chemical examination was made of two samples of screenings, 

 two samples of miixed feed oats and two samples of ground oats from No. 2 extra 

 heavy oats in an effort to find differences in chemical composition that would be 

 significant. The results obtained are not encouraging. 



