6 Maine; agricui^turai, experiment station. 1909. 



14. Brandy (potable brandy) is new brandy stored in wood 

 for not less than four (4) years without any artificial heat save 

 that which may be imparted by warming the storehouse to the 

 usual temperature, and contains in one hundred (100) liters of 

 proof spirit not less than one hundred and fifty (150) grams of 

 the substances found in new brandy save as they are changed or 

 eliminated by storage, and of those produced as secondary 

 bodies during aging; and, in addition thereto, the substances 

 extracted from the casks in which it has been stored. It con- 

 tains, when prepared for consumption as permitted by the regu- 

 lations of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, not less than forty- 

 five (45) per cent by volume of ethyl alcohol, and, if no state- 

 ment is made concerning its alcoholic strength, it contains not 

 less than fifty (50) per cent by volume of ethyl alcohol as pre- 

 scribed by law. 



15. Cognac, cognac brandy is brandy produced in the depart- 

 ments of the Charente and Charente Inferieure, France, from 

 wine produced in those departments. 



Standards eor Beverages eor Medicinae Purposes. 



As impowered in Section 5, Chapter 124 of the Public Laws 

 of 1907 the Director of the Maine Agricultural Experiment 

 Station hereby fixes and adopts the following as the standards 

 of purity, quality and strength of beverages for medicinal pur- 

 poses. 



A beverage for medicinal purposes, bearing a name recog- 

 nized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formu- 

 lary without any further statement respecting its character shall 

 conform in strength, quality and purity to the standards _pre- 

 scribed or indicated for a beverage of the same name recognized 

 in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary 

 official at the time. 



A beverage for medicinal purposes bearing a name recognized 

 by the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary and 

 branded to show a different standard of strength, quality or 

 purity shall not be regarded as adulterated if it conforms to its 

 declared standard. 



A beverage for medicinal purposes, not bearing a name recog- 

 nized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formu- 



