FOOD INSPECTION. 



Chas. D. Woods, Director. 



J. M. BartIvETT, Chemist in charge of inspection analyses. 



The legislature of 1905 enacted a law to regulate the sale and 

 analysis of food. The text of the law and the standards estab- 

 lished under it, follow : 



Chapte;r 68 oif the: Laws of 1905. 

 An Act to Regulate the Sale and Analysis of Food. 



Sec. I. It shall be unlawful for any person, persons or 

 corporation within this state to manufacture for sale, to sell, 

 or to offer or expose for sale any article of food which is 

 adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this act. 



Sec. 2. The term food, as used in this act, shall include every 

 article used for food or drink by man, horses or cattle. 



Sec. 3. For the purpose of this act an article of food shall 

 be considered as adulterated or misbranded : 



First. If any substance or substances be mixed or packed 

 with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality 

 or strength. 



Second. If any inferior substance or substances be substi- 

 tuted wholly or in part for this article. 



Third. If any necessary or valuable constituent of the article 

 be wholly or in part abstracted. 



Fourth. If it be in imitation of, or sold under the name of 

 another article. 



Fifth. If it be colored, coated, polished or powdered whereby 

 damage is concealed, or if it be made to appear better or of 

 greater value than it is. 



Sixth. If it contains poisonous ingredients, or if it contains" 

 any antiseptic or preservative not evident or not know to the 

 purchaser. 



Seventh. If it consists wholly or in part of a diseased, filthy, 

 decomposed or putrid animal or vegetable substance. 



