BULLETIN No. 145. 



FOOD INSPECTION. 



Chas. D. Woods, Director. 



J. M. Bartlett, Chemist in charge of inspection analysis. 



The law regulating the sale and analysis of food enacted by 

 the legislature of Maine in 1905 contemplated two things; the 

 proper and truthful branding of all articles of food, and the 

 exclusion from the market of deleterious food materials. The 

 law did not seek to prevent the sale of any article of wholesome 

 food but in case a food material was other than it appeared to 

 l)e, it was required "to be plainly labeled, branded or tagged so 

 as to show the exact character thereof." 



The National pure food law entitled "An Act for preventing 

 the manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated or mis- 

 branded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and 

 liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other pur- 

 poses," was approved June 30, 1906 and became effective Jan- 

 uary 1, 1907. The law, so far as it relates to foods has prac- 

 tically the same requirements as the Maine pure food law of 

 1905. The Maine legislature of 1907 believing it desirable not 

 only to regulate the sale of food but the sale of drugs as well, 

 enacted a law entitled "An Act to regulate the sale and analysis 

 of food and drugs." This law very closely follows the National 

 Food and Drug Law. The parts of the law concerning foods 

 went into effect in the spring of 1907, immediately upon 

 ■approval by the Governor. The part of the law relating to 

 drugs goes into effect January 1, 1908. The full text of the law 

 and the standards adopted will be sent on application to the 

 Director of this Station. 



The U. S. Secretary of Agriculture is the executive officer 

 of the National law known as the Foods and Drugs Act June 

 30, 1906. The Director of the Maine Agricultural Experiment 

 Station is the executive officer of the Maine Food and Drug 

 Law. The food standards for the Maine law are the same as 



