FOOD-COLOR MABKET, 1907. 



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dealers and chemists/' and also was published to assist the confec- 

 tioner in obeying "the letter and the spirit" of the pure-candy laws. 

 Under the heading "Colors that have been shown to be harmless 

 as used in the confectioner's art, harmless organic colors," this cir- 

 cular enumerates 36 colors, for 4 of which there are no Green Table 

 numbers. Of the 32 colors having Green Table numbers, 20, or 62.5 

 per cent, were among those colors submitted. The Green Table num- 

 bers of these colors, together with the number of sources from which 

 they were obtained, follow:* 



of 



JS. 



1 

 1 



1 



2 



4 

 5 

 2 

 3 

 5 

 2 



Of these 20 colors 5 each came from 1 source; 5 each came from 2 

 sources ; 1 came from 3 sources ; 1 came from 4 sources ; 4 each came 

 from 5 sources; 2 each came from 6 sources; 1 came from 7 sources, 

 and 1 came from 10 sources; that is, only 2 were wanted by more 

 than half the makers or importers, and only 4 by half the sources. 



It will be noted that this circular provides for a total of only 57 

 different coal-tar colors; the number of avowed colors submitted 

 reached 80, or 23 in excess of this number, and further, that out of 

 the 57 colors referred to in this circular only 33 appeared among those 

 colors submitted whose composition was acknowledged, so that for 

 47, or 58.8 per cent of the avowed submitted colors, this circular is no 

 specific guide. From the data obtainable from this circular, the 

 following tabulation can be made: 



Harmfulness of submitted colors based on list in circular. 



These figures disclose a considerable and self-evident disregard of the 

 request, then eight years old, as made by the National Confectioners' 



97291 Bull. 14712 3 



