December, 191 1 



MAINE 

 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 

 ORONO, MAINE. 

 CHAS. D. WOODS, Director 



ANALYSTS 

 James M. Bartlett Herman H. Hanson 



Albert G. Durgin Royden L. Hammond 



Alfred K. Burke 



INSPECTORS 

 Elmer R. Tobey Albert Verrill Edgar A. White 



(l^Kicial insipectiong 



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FOOD SANITATION. 

 During the year 191 1 an important advance has been made 

 in assuring" purer foods and more honest values to the people 

 of Maine. Many samples have been analyzed, as in the past, 

 and, in addition to the laboratory work, representatives of the 

 Station have visited hundreds o'f establishments where foods 

 are manufactured or exposed for sale, and have made thorough 

 inspections of the premises with regard to cleanliness and the 

 general sanitary conditions. This sanitary inspection is made 

 possible by a recently added section of the law which reads as 

 follows : "For the purpose of this act an article shall be 

 deemed to be adulterated in case of foods if in the manufacture, 

 sale, distribution, transportation, or in the offering or expos- 

 ing for sale, distribution or transportation, it is not at all times 

 securely protected from filth, flies, dust or other contamination, 

 or other unclean, unhealthful, or unsanitary conditions," and 

 another section of the law says in part that the Director of the 

 Station "in person or by deputy, shall have free access, ingress 

 and egress at all reasonable hours to any place or any building 



