St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-06
YOU ARE EATING IT.
How the Peoples Food Is
Adulterated by Unserupu-s
lous Men.
Commissioners Ives Crusade
Against Violators of the {,
Food Law. ' ,s.s.
.<ise,
Astounding Revelations, Notes
and Comments by State
Chemists. ''S s1
Unprincipled Manufacturers
Will Feel the Lash Of a
the Law. .1s

Adulteration of foods and liquors is
still rampant throughout the state. This
IS clearly proven by the latest reports
from the state laboratories given below.
In making these reports public State
Dairy and Food Commissioner Ives
makes the following statement:
The dairy and food commissioner is
satisfied at this time that the most
speedy and effective method by which
the present widespread adulteration Of
foods can be checked and controlled is
by enlightening the people of the sta te
relative to the character of the
goods with which the market is sup
piled. with reference to their purity or
adulteration, and the sources from
which each are supplied. In this man
her both the retailer and the consumer
are placed in possession of such infor-
nation as will enable them to choose
those which are of good quality and
avoid those which are subject to adul-
iteration.
In accordance with this belief gen
eral inspection of the food stuffs which
are Included under the present law was
instituted as soon as the law took eff
feet, and is at present in progress.
There is no desire OH the part of the
commissioner to resort to legal meas
ureS To effect the restriction of the sale
of adulterated goods in any case in
which such sale can equally be stopped
by measures less
HARSH AND OPPRESSIVE
to the individual dealer. A very large
number of samples have been collected
by the inspectors in different parts of
the state and transmitted to the chem
lists for analysis. In each case wherever
such samples have been found to be
has been sent to the parties
from whom they were obtained,
informing them that such SAM les
were not of legal character and that a
continuance5Of their sale would subject
them to the penalties provided by law
for such offensc. The results of this
method have thus far proven extremely
gratifying, in that there has been in
nearly every instance readiness and
desire upon the part of the dealers to con-
form to the requirements OF the law, and
to supply themselves and their custom
ers with such articles as are of standard
character and purity. So far as have
been able to learn, the course pursued
meets with the hearty approval of the,
people OF the state, and is accomplish
ing in very considerable degree puri:i
fcatIon of the general market from :.
ILLEGAL AND ADULTERATED t.. (
goods. On the other hand this couEse
has met with the fierceSt opposition on
the part of certain individuals and firms
whose goods failed for obvious reasons
to pass the official inspection. f.s.
These parties have taken occasion,
through the medium of private COM
municati0n and the columns of the trade
Journals. to attack in the most unwar-
ranted manner the motives and methods
of the commissioner. as we'll as the
character and qualifications of the chem
lists of the commissioner. For the
benefit of such individuals and
firms l desire to state that. the
food law of the state Of Mime
sofa. is intended to protect the people of
the state from fraud and imposition re-
CARELESS of the sentiments and opinions
of the vendors of adulterated or fraudu-
lent articles. That the methods of analy.
sis employed by chemists of the commits
sion in the food inspection are those
which are in universal use wherever
such inspection is practiced. and af-
ford no dissatisfaction whatever to those
whose goods are of an acceptable char
acter and quality, and further, that such
being the case, the same vigilant in
speciiOn and the same condemnation OF
inferi or, fraudulent or adulterated
goods will be continued and the law I'M
t1inchingly enforced without fear or
favor. WARREN J. IVES,
Commissioner.