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tions of the various ingredients of the wine shall be altered. The 

 addition to must or wine of material not specified, or especially of 

 saccharin, glycerin, salicylic acid, flavoring extracts, ethereal oils, or 

 other liquids, and of all vegetable, mineral, and aniline colors, with the 

 exception of safflower, is expressly prohibited. 



Carbonated wines can be sold only under the proper designation. 

 The lees may be used in the manufacture of " Tresterwein " when they 

 are extracted with sugar water for fermentation, and for " Nachwein" 

 when extracted with water and refined alcohol or cognac. 



ITALY. 



DAIRY PRODUCTS. 



The term ' ' butter " must be used only to designate fatty material 

 obtained from milk and cream by mechanical operations. The sale of 

 abnormal or rancid butter or butter manufactured from the milk of 

 diseased or improperly fed cows is prohibited. Butter must contain 

 no injurious coloring matter, and must contain no added substances, 

 such as foreign fats, flour, sirups, chalk, plaster, or soluble glass. 

 No chemical preservatives may be added other than common salt and 

 borax, and the latter must not be present in greater quantity than 

 0.2 per cent. The fat content of butter must not be less than 82 

 per cent. All edible fats which are to be used as butter substitutes, 

 and all butter adulterated with foreign fat, must be sold under some 

 such name as "margarine." Butter and other edible fats of animal or 

 vegetable origin must be in a good state of preservation, and if of 

 animal origin must have been prepared from a healthy animal. 



Cheese must contain no substance which is not obtained from milk 

 and cream, other than salt and harmless coloring matter. 



The sale of eggs which are tainted or colored with injurious substances 

 is forbidden. 



CEREAL PRODUCTS. 



Cereals and mill products must be in a good state of preservation, 

 free from mold, weed seed, and other impurities. The addition of 

 alum, copper sulphate, zinc sulphate, talc, chalk, plaster, and other 

 impurities of all descriptions is forbidden. 



SUGAR AND CONFECTIONS. 



The word "sugar" is employed to designate the product of the 

 sugar cane or sugar beet. It must not contain more than 5 per cent of 

 reducing sugar. Sirups, confections, marmalades, etc., must not be 

 fermented nor in any way deteriorated, and must not contain any other 

 fruit product than that which is represented to be present, nor any toxic 

 material, such as saccharin, glycerin, oxalic acid, nor such preservatives 

 as boric acid and salicylic acid. 



