8 FOOD LEGISLATION, YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1908. 



Drugs Act. 87, Labeling of Corn Sirup. 88, Private Importa- 

 tions. 89, Amendment to Food Inspection Decision 76, Relating to 

 ih< Use in Foods of Benzoate of Soda and Sulphur Dioxid. 90, 

 The Labeling of Foods and Medicinal Mixtures for Stock and Poul- 

 try. 91, The Labeling of Mocha Coffee. 92, The Use of Copper 

 Salts in the Greening of Foods. 93, Amendment to Regulation 34. 

 94, The Labeling of Medicinal and Table Waters. 95, The Use of 

 itral Spirits Distilled from Beet Sugar Molasses in the Prepara- 

 tion of Whisky Compounds and Imitation Whiskies. 96, Serial 

 X umber Guaranty. 



Bureau of Internal Revenue: Regulation No. 9, Revised July, 

 1907, Revised Regulations Concerning Oleomargarine, also Adul- 

 terated Butter and Process or Renovated Butter. 



TEA. 



SEC. 1. Importation of inferior tea prohibited; proviso. From and after May 

 first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, it shall be unlawful for any person 

 or persons or corporation to import or bring into the United States any merchan- 

 dise as tea which is inferior in purity, quality, and fitness, for consumption to 

 the standards provided in section three of this act, and the importation of all 

 such merchandise is hereby prohibited. Provided, That nothing herein shall 

 affect or prevent the importation into the United States, under such regulations 

 as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, of any merchandise as tea 

 which may be inferior in purity, quality, and fitness for consumption to the 

 st.-uulards established by the Secretary of the Treasury, or of any tea waste, 

 tea sittings, or tea sweepings, for the sole purpose of manufacturing theine, 

 caffeine, or other chemical products whereby the identity and character of the 

 original material is entirely destroyed or changed; and that importers and 

 manufacturers who import or bring into the United States such tea, tea waste, 

 siftings, or tea sweepings shall give suitable bond, to be approved as to 

 ji mount and securities by the Secretary of the Treasury, conditioned that said 

 imported material shall be only used for the purposes herein provided, under 

 such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. As 

 intruded May 16, 1908. Statutes of the United States of America, 1907-1908, 

 Part 1, ch. no, p. 163. 



Approved March 2. 1897. United States Statutes at Large, 1895-1897, vol. 29, 

 ch. 358, pp. 604-607. 



See Bui. 69, Revised, Part I, p. 7. 



