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BUTTER. 



Butter is defined as the product of milk or cream of the cow or 

 buffalo. It is white or yellow in color, of uniform consistency, and 

 contains a small amount of casein, milk sugar, lactic acid, unorganized 

 bodies, etc. Butter must contain at least 82 per cent of fat, and the 

 sale of butter prepared from adulterated milk or the milk of diseased 

 or improperly fed cows is prohibited. 



Butter must have the normal taste and odor and be free from ran- 

 cidity, bitterness, fungi, dirt, etc. The addition of injurious artifi- 

 cial, mineral, or vegetable colors is prohibited. The content of 

 sodium chlorid must not exceed 8 per cent, and the addition of for- 

 eign materials, such as starch, flour, and foreign fats is prohibited. 



LARD AND TALLOW. 



The addition to lard and tallow of foreign materials, such as foreign 

 fat, alum, .calcium carbonate, gypsum, sodium carbonate, starch, flour, 

 and the sale of rancid and deteriorated fat are forbidden. 



VEGETABLE OILS. 



The sale as foods of vegetable oils obtained with the assistance of 

 heat, hot water, steam, or by means of heating the press, or separated 

 by means of such solvents as carbon disulphid, petroleum ether, arid 

 benzene, is prohibited. The admixture with olive oil of any other oil, 

 such as sesame, peanut, rape-seed, sunflower, cotton-seed, mineral, and 

 animal oils, is prohibited. 



The sale as food of the oil prepared from decayed or fermented 

 olives is prohibited. Table oil must be free from rancidity, and the 

 total acid content must not exceed 1.66 per cent. The following are 

 the requirements as to specific gravit}^ of the oils mentioned: 



Rape-seed oil, 0.914 to 0.917; olive oil, 0.915 to 0.918; oleo oil, 0.915 to 0.922; cotton- 

 seed oil, 0.922 to 0.931; sesame oil, 0.923 to 0.924; poppy oil, 0.924 to 0.937; nut oil, 

 0.925 to 0.927; linseed oil, 0.932 to 0.937. 



CEREALS AND FLOUR. 



Cereals which are unripe, decayed, or decomposed, covered with 

 fungus, affected by vegetable or animal parasites, or mixed with other 

 varieties of cereals, can not be sold for human food, nor shall flour or 

 meal prepared from the above be sold as food. The sale of a mixture 

 of wheat, rye, barley, or maize flour with leguminous flour or other 

 foreign material, except when properly designated, is forbidden. The 

 ash of cereals and of the flour prepared from the same must have an 

 alkaline reaction. The sale of flour which has deteriorated in anyway 

 or which contains more than 18 per cent of water is forbidden. The 



