September, 1910 



MAINE 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



ORONO, MAINE. 



CHAS. D. WOODS, Director 



Analysts 

 James M. Bartlett Herman H. Hanson 



Albert G. Durgin Royden L. Hammond 



Raymond P. Norton Alfred K. Burke 



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FOOD AND DRUG REGULATIONS. 



Official Inspections 14, published in September, 1910, contains 

 the text of the Maine Food and Drug Law and the standards and 

 regulations adopted to that date. The following additional 

 standards and regulations are fixed and adopted by the Director 

 of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station as provided by 

 section 5 of the law. 



M. F. D. R. 21. 



Shellfish. 



A standard for oysters was published in Official Inspections 

 15, October, 1909, and Food Inspection Decisions no and 121, 

 regulating the interstate sale and shipment of shellfish, were 

 published in October, 1909, and June, 1910. The following 

 governs the sale of oysters and other shellfish in Maine : 



It is unlawful to ship or to sell oysters or other shellfish taken 

 from insanitary or polluted beds. The pollution of oysters with 

 sewage can readily be detected by bacteriological examination 

 and such polluted oysters or other shellfish are adulterated under 

 Section 3 of the Maine Food and Drug Law, in that they contain 

 an added "poisonous or other added deleterious ingredient which 

 may render such articles injurious to health." Such articles are 

 likewise adulterated under Section 3, in the case of foods, be- 



