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tive of the Maine Food and Drug Law will consider it his duty 

 to report such violations and bring cases against those found 

 following the practice. 



Another point to be remembered in the matter of fictitious 

 firm names is the use by individuals of names purporting to be 

 company names or names of corporations which have no legal 

 existence. This is contrary to law and must stop. 



Sanitary Conditions of Manufacture. While sanitation is 

 not a part of the Maine Food and Drug Law, at. the time when 

 the inspector was collecting these samples he made some 

 observations concerning the conditions under which the soda 

 waters were bottled. In general the bottlers that were using 

 straight sugar without saccharine, making their goods so that 

 there was from 10 to 13 per cent solids, were much more careful 

 in their manufacture than those putting out the goods of lower 

 quality. Some of the goods were packed under very unsanitary 

 conditions. In many of the bottling works, the bottles are 

 merely rinsed. They, of course, should be thoroughly washed 

 through two or three waters and sterilized. It is only in a few 

 of the very best establishments that any such precautions are 

 taken to insure cleanliness in the bottles. Flies with all the 

 evils which are attendant upon them (see Official Inspections 

 24, pages 83 and 84) are altogether too much in evidence in 

 many of the bottling works. 



The three things that are being especially taken up at this 

 time are the use of saccharine in the place of sugar, the use of 

 dangerous coal tar dyes not intended for foods, and the use of 

 artificial colors without statement on label. These violations 

 are being thoroughly investigated and it may be found neces- 

 sary to resort to prosecution. 



