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invostigation of sixteen brands purchased at random showed, 

 through Professor Prescott's examination, variation of from 

 less than 100 to 1,350,000 per cubic centimeter. It there- 

 fore appears that condensed milk is not always sterile.^ Ex- 

 aminations made by our chemist, B. F. Davenport, M.D., by 

 Herman C. Lythgoe, analyst of the State Board of Health, 

 and by Prof. James O, Jordan of the Boston Bureau of Milk 

 Inspection, indicate that condensed milk is seldom prepared 

 from milk rich in fat, but oftentimes from apparently below- 

 standard milk. Therefore it would seem that the least we 

 can ask is the passage by the Legislature of a bill requiring 

 that a label, bearing a formula for extending with water, 

 for home use, be securely attached to each container of evap- 

 orated, concentrated or condensed milk sold or offered for 

 sale in this Commonwealth, and that the formula thus at- 

 tached be such that the milk product resulting be not below 

 the Massachusetts standard for whole milk. Such a law 

 should carry with it a suitable penalty in case the milk thus 

 extended fails in any instance to conform to the present legal 

 requirements for whole milk. 



So long as a milk standard is maintained in this State it is 

 manifestly unfair that these prepared milks from other States 

 should come into our markets without either standard or 

 guarantee as regards their solid food content. We suggest 

 the following, which is the same bill that the Bureau used 

 its best efforts to have passed last year : — 



An Act eelative to the Labeling of Evaporated, Concentrated 

 OR Condensed Milk. 



Section 1. Every container of evaporated, concentrated or con- 

 densed milk sold or offered for sale, or had in possession or custodj^ 

 with intent to sell, by any person, firm or corporation within this 

 commonwealth, shall have plainly printed thereupon in the English 

 language, or attached thereto on some firmly affixed tag or label, 

 a formula for extending the said evaporated, concentrated or con- 

 densed milk with water, and the said formula must be such that 

 the milk product resulting shall not be below the Massachusetts 

 standard for milk solids and fat for whole milk. 



• It should be said, in justice to evaporated unsweetened milk, that it is usually found to 

 be practically sterile, and is also sold at a relatively less price than the sweetened con- 

 densed milk. 



