OFFICIAL IXSPECTIOX 12. 83 



There is nothing in the Maine feeding stuffs law which pro- 

 hibits weeds in feeds. Under tlie Food and Drug Law. how- 

 ever, poisonous weeds as corn cockle and jimson weeds are 

 excluded and the sale of feeding stuffs carrying these poisonous 

 weed seeds is unlawful. 



Food Inspection Decision 90 of the U. S.' Board of Food and 

 Drug Inspection bearing on the sale of commercial feeding 

 stuffs is reprinted here. 



THE L.VBELIXG OF FOODS AND MEDICIXAL MIXTURES FOR STOCK AXD 



POULTRY. 



The Department has frequentlj'^ received inquiries in regard to the 

 labeling of bran, of which the following is a fair sample : 



Can the screenings of wheats consisting principally of shrunken seed, 

 ■etc.. be put in the bran and it still be called bran, etc. 



Since the above is clearly in violation of those provisions of the law 

 requiring that a food product be true to label, the Department is of the 

 •opinion that it will be necessary to label such a mixture as "Bran and 

 Screenings." 



It has recently come to the attention of the Department that a num- 

 ber of the cattle and poultry foods sold on the American market con- 

 tain enough poisonous weed seeds, such as corn cockle and jimson weed 

 (Jamestown weed), to have a more or less toxic effect on poultry, cat- 

 tle, etc. Poultry and cattle foods which contain poisonous weed seeds 

 in appreciable quantities will be considered as adulterated in accord- 

 ance with those provisions of the food and drugs act, June 30, 1906, 

 forbidding the presence of poisonous or deleterious ingredients. 



The Department has been asked by the manufacturers of medicinal 

 mi.xtures for poultry, cattle, etc.. whether such mixtures may. under the 

 law, be labeled respectively as cattle and poultry foods. It is thought, 

 first, that the words "Cattle Food" or "Poultry Food" should apply 

 to cattle or poultry foods which are not mixed with any condimental or 

 medicinal substance or substances : second, that mixtures of cattle and 

 poultry food materials, with .small quantities of condiments, such as 

 anise seed, ginger, capsicum, etc., should be labeled as "Condimental 

 Cattle Food." or "Condimental Poultry Food ;" and third, that mi.x- 

 tures of cattle-food materials with medicinal substances, such as arsenic, 

 sulphate of iron (copperas), etc., should not be labeled as foods, but as 

 medicines, or remedies. For example, under the latter ruling, a cattle 

 food mixed with medicinal substances, such as arsenic, copperas, etc., 

 should be plainly labeled as a remedy, or medicine, so as to differentiate 

 clearly such a substance from a cattle food material unmixed with 

 medicinal a.gents. 



