BULLETIN No. 151 



FOOD AND DRUG INSPECTION. 



Chas. D. Woods, Director. 



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



The present bulletin, intended primarily for dealers, contains 

 reports upon the food inspection as it has been conducted dur- 

 ing the last six months of 1907 and the results of analyses of 

 samples collected, together with a discussion of these results. 

 This discussion is made as simple and as free from technical 

 language as possible. The attempt is made to clearly point out 

 some of the more common violations of the law which are made 

 unwittingly, and to call attention to some violations that have 

 been passed over during this, the first year of the present law, 

 that cannot be allowed to continue. 



Seeeing Goods That Have Been Removed From the 



Package. 



Some cases have come to our attention of unwitting violations 

 of the law on the part of dealers by removing the contents of a 

 package into some other receptacle- before selling. This is per- 

 fectly proper in the case of goods that are exactly what they 

 appear to be, but goods that require branding cannot be lawfully 

 removed from original package before being sold unless they 

 are still corerctly labeled. For example — adulterated maple 

 sugar may be sent out in boxes that are properly labeled ; it is 

 unlawful for the dealer to remove it from the package in which 

 it was received and expose it for sale unless it shall be plainly 

 marked adulterated maple sugar or maple sugar and cane sugar 

 or whatever is necessary to accord with the fact. Pork sausage 

 as put up by many of the manufacturers contains some cereal 

 and is properly labeled "Pork sausage, cereal added." The 

 removal of such sausage from the original package and expo- 



