OFFICIAL INSPECTION I4. IO7 



M. F. D. R. 4. 



STANDARDS FOR FOODS* 



As empowered in Section 5, Chapter 124 of the public laws of 1907, 

 Charles D. Woods, the director of the Maine Agricultural Experiment 

 Station hereby adopts and fixes the following together with their defi- 

 nitions as the official standards of these food products for the State of 

 Maine. These standards and definitions supersede all previously pub- 

 lished standards for the State of Maine. 



A food product bearing a name recognized in the following standards 

 and branded so as to plainly show to the non-professional person a 

 different standard of strength, quality or purity shall not be regarded 

 as adulterated or misbranded if it conforms to its declared standard. 



I. ANIMAL PRODUCTS. 

 A. Meats and the Principal Meat Products. 



a. MEATS. 



1. Meat, flesh, is any clean, sound, dressed, and properly prepared 

 edible part of animals in good health at the time of slaughter, and if 

 it bears a name descriptive of its kind, composition, or origin, it corre- 

 sponds thereto. The term "animals," as herein used, includes not only 

 mammals, but fish, fowl, crustaceans, mollusks, and all other animals 

 used as food. 



2. Fresh meat is meat from animals recently slaughtered and properly 

 cooled until delivered to the consumer. 



3. Cold storage meat is meat from animals recently slaughtered and 

 preserved by refrigeration until delivered to the consumer. 



4. Salted, pickled, and smoked meats are unmixed meats preserved 

 by salt, sugar, vinegar, spices, or smoke, singly or in combination, 

 whether in bulk or in suitable containers.* 



* Suitable containers for keeping moist food products such as sirups, 

 honey, condensed milk, soups, meat extracts, meats, manufactured meats, 

 and undried fruits and vegetables, and wrappers in contact with food 

 products, contain on their surfaces, in contact with the food product, 

 no lead, antimony, arsenic, >jinc or copper or any compounds thereof 

 or any other poisonous or injurious substance. If the containers are 

 made of tin plate, they are outside-soldered and the plate in no place 

 contains less than one hundred and thirteen (113) milligrams of tin 

 on a piece five (5) centimeters square or one and eight-tenths (1.8) 

 grains on a piece two (2) inches square. 



The inner coating of the containers is free from pin holes, blisters, 

 and cracks. 



If the tin plate is lacquered, the lacquer completely covers the tinned 

 surface within the container and yields to the contents of the container 

 no lead, antimony, arsenic, zinc or copper or any compounds thereof, 

 or any other poisonous or injurious substance. 



* See foot note page 106. 



