36 FOOD LAWS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. 



This act and its amendments are enforced by the Commissioner o: 

 Internal Revenue of the Treasury Department, who has the authority 

 given him by law to "make all needful regulations for the carrying 

 into effect of this act." His regulations must, however, receive th< 

 approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. (Sec. 20, act of Aug. 2 

 1886.) 



In section 5 of the act of May 9, 1902, the Secretary of Agriculture 

 is 



authorized and required to cause a rigid sanitary inspection to be made, at such time; 

 as he may desm proper or necessary, of all factories and storehouses where process o 

 renovated butter is manufactured, packed, or prepared for market, and of the prod 

 ucts thereof and materials going into the manufacture of the same. All process o: 

 renovated butter and the packages containing the same shall be marked with th< 

 words "renovated butter" or "process butter" and by such other marks, labels, o: 

 brands, and in such manner as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture 

 and no process or renovated butter shall be shipped or transported from its place o 

 manufacture into any other State or Territory, or the District of Columbia, or to anj 

 foreign country, until it has been marked as provided in this section. The Secretary 

 of Agriculture shall make all needful regulations for carrying this section into effect 

 and shall cause to be ascertained and reported from time to time the quantity anc 

 quality of process or renovated butter manufactured, and the character and the con 

 dition of the material from which it is made. And he shall also have power to ascer 

 tain whether or not materials used in the manufacture of said process or renovatec 

 butter are deleterious to health or unwholesome in the finished product, and in cas< 

 such deleterious or unwholesome materials are found to be used in products intendec 

 for exportation or shipment into other States or in course of exportation or shipmen 

 he shall have power to confiscate the same. 



Regulations No. 9, revised July, 1907, of the United States Interna 

 Revenue, contains the " Revised regulations concerning oleomar- 

 garine, also adulterated butter and process or renovated butter.' 

 These regulations have not been greatly modified, but where sucl 

 revision has taken place they are published as Treasury Decisions 

 (as, for example, T. D. 1498). 



As illustrating the fact that the problems with which those whc 

 administer the food laws of the United Kingdom have to deal are the 

 same as those that are being dealt with in the United States, refer- 

 ence may be made to the difficulties which the Board of Agriculture 

 and Fisheries has met with in approving of names for margarine 

 The annual report of the intelligence division of this board for the 

 year 1907 (p. 15) says: 



The board also declined to approve of words or phrases importing praise, excep 

 praise of a kind which is not applicable to margarine, and of words which imply tha 

 the margarine is suitable for any particular purpose. The necessity for this precautioi 

 has been already fully demonstrated, as more than one firm has attempted to refe: 

 to the board's approval of names on wrappers and in advertisements in such a way ai 

 to convey to the purchaser the idea that the margarine itself had been approved bj 

 the board. 



