86 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I912. 



Very likely dealers themselves will discover ways that are 

 simpler and equally effective with the following suggestions. 

 If, however, these suggestions are followed dealers will be held 

 to have taken all needed precautions and no prosecutions will 

 result. If it should later develop that these suggestions are not 

 adequate they will be modified, but ample notice will be given 

 that dealers may make any needed changes. 



Package foods, wrapped foods, or foods that carry their own 

 natural protection in the way of an inedible skin, as the orange, 

 the lemon, the potato, the turnip, undressed poultry, unopened 

 shell fish, etc., do not need to be handled as carefully and be as 

 completely protected as those not having these natural protective 

 coverings. Foods without natural or artificial coverings or 

 those from which the protective coverings have been removed 

 require complete protection. Foods that are eaten as sold 

 without cooking need to be more thoroughly protected than 

 foods that are cooked before being eaten. Bakers products 

 handled in an unsanitary way are more likely to act as carriers 

 of disease than meat products that are subjected to heat before 

 being eaten. The same is true of berries which are so generally 

 eaten raw as compared with vegetables that are usually cooked. 



71%e Display of Food. 



It is in the display of food for sale, particularly at retail, that 

 there is the greatest liability for the dealer to violate the law 

 relative to the protection of food from contamination. 



'Sidezualk, street, and cart display. Foodstuffs that are pro- 

 tected by complete inedible coverings, whether natural or artifi- 

 cial, when displayed in the open, should be at least two feet 

 above the street or sidewalk and not surrounded by unclean, 

 unhealthful or unsanitary conditions. 



Other food stuffs (berries, breads, meats, etc.) must be pro- 

 tected by suitable coverings. Screens or nettings are not ade- 

 quate. The only form of display furniture that suggests itself 

 to the executive of the law as suitable are tight cases made of 

 glass, wood or metal, and fitted with tightly fitting doors. A 

 cart could be so constructed of glass, wood or metal, that display 

 of food would be sanitary. Such a cart has probably yet to be 

 made. 



Display zvithin the shop or store. The same general principles 



