164 COAL-TAB COLORS USED IN FOOD PRODUCTS. 



Colors reported on favorably and number of dealers handling same. 



* The italicized Green Table numbers are those of the permitted list of Food Inspection Decision No. 76. 



The third of these recommendations suggested 27 different chemical 

 individuals for permissive use; these are tabulated below in the same 

 manner as the suggestions in the preceding recommendations. 



Twenty-seven colors recommended for use and reports in the literature on the same. 



1 Of physiological tests in literature compiled. 



Therefore, applying the same method of drawing conclusions as 

 in the case of the preceding two recommendations, it appears that 

 10 out of the 27 suggested chemical individuals had been examined 

 physiologically with only favorable results, and the remaining 17 

 had either not been examined at all or with unfavorable or con- 

 flicting results. The 10 chemical individuals examined with favorable 

 results, and the number of sources out of a possible 12 offering them 

 on the United States market in the summer of 1907, are as follows: 



The 10 recommended colors favorably reported on in the literature and the dealers handling 



same. 



i The italicized Green Table numbers are those of the permitted list of Food Inspection Decision No. 76. 



