42 FOOD LAWS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. 



Irish authorities has already produced good results and undoubted! 

 still more marked results will be obtained in the future. 



Under the merchandise marks acts attention has also been pai 

 to such food products as butter, cheese, cider, and condensed mili 

 which were misbranded. During the year 1909 successful prosecu 

 tions were instituted for the sale of foreign poultry as English, foreig: 

 eggs as Irish, beverages falsely labeled as cider and perry, and foreig: 

 vegetables as English. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



An attempt has been made in this bulletin merely to outline som 

 of the important phases of the sale of food and drugs acts and thos 

 allied laws which make for the control of foods and drugs and for th 

 protection of the consumer. Full acknowledgment is hereby give: 

 for the information obtained from various official publications, a 

 well as from the various treatises which have been published on thi 

 subject. Acknowledgment is also made to those administrativ 

 officers through whose courtesy I was enabled to obtain much valu 

 able information during an investigation of this subject made duriri 

 the summer of 1908. These officials, both in England and Ireland 

 whom I have had the opportunity of consulting are accomplishinj 

 a splendid work. The problems confronting them in matters con 

 cerning the protection of the public health and the prevention 

 fraud are essentially those which are being dealt with in the Unite< 

 States. In this country we try to accomplish under our one la\ 

 what they accomplish under many, but we have had the advantag 

 in having the more recent legislation and have been able to tak 

 advantage of their experience. Then, too, conditions are not abso 

 lutely parallel, because the authority of the States is here clearly am 

 distinctly outlined, while in Great Britain there is no such broad lin 

 of demarcation. 



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