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NORTH CAROLINA. 



From H. B. Battle, director North Carolina Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, Baleigh, N. C. : 



We liave no laws in this State in reference to the adulteration of food and druga. 

 A proper national law wisely enforced would unquestionably benefit the people of 

 the United States. 



NORTH DAKOTA. 



From W. S. Parker, secretary of the North Dakota State Board of 

 Pharmacy, Lisbon, N. Dak. : 



We have a food and drug adulteration law in this State, and I do not think that 

 it is violated to any great extent. I think that a national food and drug law, com- 

 pelling the proper branding of all articles of food and drugs shipped from one State 

 to another, would do much more to stop adulterations than could be. accomplished in 

 any other way. 



OHIO. 



From Charles T. P. Fennel, chairman of the American Pharmaceuti- 

 cal Association, Cincinnati, Ohio : 



Regarding the laws I am satisfied that they do not accomplish the object desired, 

 viz, the protection of the public iu the purchase of all products necessary for sub- 

 sistence. Legislators do not usually take into consideration social and economic 

 conditions. They fail to discriminate between adulteration in its various differen- 

 tiations, or to give the proper support for the enforcement of the law, and they offer 

 in the majority of cases, by ambiguous phraseology, opportunities for violations. 

 In fact State laws are absolutely valueless. Nothing can be accomplished until the 

 U. S. Government takes charge of the matter. The framing of a law governing food 

 products should not be a very difficult task. For drugs the United States pharma- 

 copeia should be made the legal authority, with such modifications of maximum 

 and minimum strength to allow for variations. 



Frank Kienzle, esq., Columbus, Ohio, sends the two following 

 extracts, but fails to give the name of the paper from which they were 

 clipped, but gives their date as May 2. 



UNWHOLESOME ARTICLES. 



State Dairy and Food Commissioner McNeal to-day received the reports of analysis 

 made by John H. Westerhoff and Louis Schmidt, including a number of articles of 

 food which had been submitted to them by the deputy commissioners. Among these 

 were 3 samples of maple sirup, one of which, produced by Williams Bros., 

 Detroit, and sold in Cincinnati, is reported to have contained 60 percent of glucose; 

 another produced by A. E. Idett, Cincinnati, is marked as being a. mixture of 

 molasses and glucose, and the third, from the Woodstock Maple Sirup Company, St. 

 Louis, is put down as containing 30 to 35 per cent of glucose. 



The most glaring of the adulterations in the list is a sample of coffee, which the 

 chemist says, "was found to consist of pure barley, malted, roasted, and ground. 

 Contains no coffee whatever." 



A sample of sweet oil, sold by Eckler & Co., Pleasant Ridge, Ohio, the producer 

 being unknown, is reported to be adulterated with 20 per cent of cotton-seed oil, 



