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MAINE 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, 



ORONO, MAINE. 



Official 3ns!pectionsi. 



FOOD AND DRUG STANDARDS. 



The Maine Food and Drug law gives the Director of the 

 Maine Experiment Station authority to adopt and fix standards 

 of purity, quality and strength when such standards are not 

 specified and fixed by law, and directs that he shall publish them 

 with such other information concerning articles of food and 

 drugs as may be of public benefit. 



For several years the Association of Official Agricultural 

 Chemists of the U. S. and the Association of State and 

 National Food and Dairy Departments have through a joint 

 committee been preparing definitions and schedules for food 

 standards. In accordance with section 5 of the Maine food and 

 drug law, the standards of purity, quality and strength of many 

 foods were adopted and fixed and published in Bulletin 135 of 

 the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, pages 233 to 250 

 inclusive. 



The following also were adopted for the purity, quality and 

 strength of drugs : 



