UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



BULLETIN No. 1084 



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Washington, D. C. 



June 30, 1922 



INSPECTION OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLE CAN- 

 NERIES. 



Compiled by F. B. Linton, Assistant to the Chief, Bureau of Chemistry, 

 from reports furnished by a committee of food inspectors of the Bureau of 

 Chemistry, consisting of J. It. Garner, G. H. Adams, and A. S. Daggett. 1 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Introduction 1 



Elements of cannery inspection : 



Relations' with the proprietor — 2 



Examination of raw materials — 3 



Surroundings of the cannery 4 



Canning processes 4 



Finished products 7 



Grades 8 



Labels 10 



Employees 11 



Cleanliness 11 



Tomato-cannery inspection „ 13 



Types of tomato products canned- 14 



Suitable tomatoes 14 



Washing 14 



Page. 



Tomato-cannery inspection — Contd. 



Peeling and trimming 15 



Filling 15 



Processing 16 



Tomato pulp . 16 



Inspector's report : 



Purpose 17 



Assembling facts 17 



Emphasis 17 



Form 18 



Points for specific products 20 



Fruits 20 



Vegetables 28 



Conclusion 38 



INTRODUCTION. 



The food inspector has many functions which vary with the terms 

 of the law under which he operates and with the form of the organ- 

 ization which directs his activities. His two primary functions, 



1 In the compilation of this bulletin free use has been made of material from unpub- 

 lished reports of food inspectors of the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, who work under the terms of the Federal Food and Drugs Act, especially that collected 

 by the committee appointed by the chief of the bureau for the purpose, and from the 

 following U. S. Government publications : Department of Agriculture Bulletins 569, " The 

 Sanitary Control of Tomato-Canning Factories," by B. J. Howard and C. H. Stephenson, 

 and 196, " Methods Followed in the Commercial Canning of Foods," by A. W. Bitting ; 

 Bureau of Chemistry Bulletin 151, " The Canning of Foods " ; Department of Commerce, 

 Miscellaneous Series, Bulletin 54, " Canned Foods " ; and circulars issued by the War 

 Department giving instructions and specifications pertaining to the inspection of canned 

 fruits and vegetables. 



Acknowledgment is made to H. H. Wagner, C. S. Brinton, A. Stengel, and W. R. M. 

 Wharton for helpful criticism and suggestions in the revision of the manuscript. 



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