The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-05
The Coming Congress to be Held in San
Francisco.
Good Effects of the Agitation Already
ADMINISTRATORS to the
People.

FRANCISCO on the 0Utn Oh tulS LloiltH-
J. A F'ilcher, J. w. Kerr and A
| Sbarbaro. constituting a committee
formed for the purpose of working uf
| public sentiment on this subject
have issued an address to the people
in which they say:
| For more than a year the Manu-
facturers' and Producers Association
of San Francisco has energetically agi-
tated the question of pure food and the
Importance of enforcing the laws
against food adulteration. The present
San Francisco Board of Health has
taken up the subject vigorously and
has entered upon crusade against the
adulterators of food products and deal
ers in adulterated articles.
| An investigation of the extent tO
which adulterated foods are thrown or
| the market of California from the East
and elsewhere is calculated to surprise
one not familiar with the subject, and
! when we reflect that We are a great
| producer of food products and that
the market for these goods depends
very largely on the reputation which
we shall maintain for purity and ex-
cellence in the character of our output
root out every adulterated article and
punish every adulterator Of our food
production must be apparent to every
well-wisher of California.
1T has been found that the cam
paign against this class of offenders,
| which is being vigorously prosecuted
in San Francisco, is having the result
of driving the rejected goods back into
the interior, and hence those who are
leading in this agitation have come to
the conclusion that the only way to
meet the evil effectually is to make the
movement as broad as the State.
with this view it is hoped to inter
est all the people of California, and
especially the leading spirits in each
community of the State.
AS a preliminary TO this end, the
Manufacturers and Producers Asso-
citation, in conjunction with a commit
tee of the Council of Associated In
dustries (the latter body being COM
posed of representatives from eleven
of the leading industrial and CONNER
cial organizations of San Francisco,
! have resolved in favor of holding a
| State Pure Food Congress in San
Francisco on the Both of April, 1897.
1T has been determined to secure
| representatives to said congress by
asking the Governor of the State to APP
| point fifty delegates at-large; by ask
ing the Supervisors of each county to
appoint at least ten delegates from
each of the respective counties: by ask
| ing the Mayors of incorporated cities
to appoint delegates in proportion to
! a a rdC
of Trade, Chambers of Commerce,
oranges and other industrial organiza-
lions all over California to send dele
gates.
1T is the ambition Of the projectors
of this move to make this convention
the event of the year, an epoch in the
history of our State. We want to make
it the greatest convention ever held in
California. We want to see it SO large
1 in numbers, SO positive and practical
| in action, as to startle those who for
| a present personal advantage would
blast the name and fame of the State,
and serve as a notice to them now and
! forever that they cannot ply their vo-
cation with safety to their peace and
profit to their purse within the con-
fines of California
WHAT THE LAW IS.
Following is the law against the adul-
| iteration of articles Of food with dele
March %, 1890:
Section /. No person shall, within
this State, manufacture for sale, offer
for sale or sell any drug or article of
food which is adulterated within the
meaning of this Act.
Section . The term drug" as used
| in this Act, shall include all medicines
| for internal or external use, antisep-
| ties disinfectants and cosmetics. The
| term food as used herein, shall in
clude all articles used for food or drink
by man, whether simple, mixed or COM
pound.
/ Section s. Any article shall be deemed
| to be adulterated within the meaning
of this Act:
{a) In the case of drugs: 1. If, when
sold under or by a name recognized in
| the United States pharmacopoeia, it
differs from the standard of strength,
| quality or purity laid down therein.
=. If, when sold under or by a name
not recognized in the United States
| Pharmaccpoeia, but which is found in
some other pharmacopoeia or other
standard work on materia medica, it
differs materially from the standard of
| strength, quality or purity laid down
in such work 3. If its strength, quail
| ity or purity falls below the professed
standard under which it is sold.
| (b) In the case of food: l. If any sub
stance or substances have been mixed
/ With it. so as to lower or depreciate, or
/ injuriously affect its quality, strength
or purity =. If any inferior or cheaper
substance or substances have been sub
/ stituted wholly or in part for it. 3. If
any valuable or necessary constituent
or ingredient has been wholly or in
part distracted from it. 4. If 1T is an
imitation Of or is sold under the name
of, another article. 5. If it consists
| wholly, or in part. of a diseased, de-
composed. putrid, infected, tainted or
rotten animal or vegetable substance or
article, whether manufactured or not;
or in the case of milk, if it is the prod
| uce of diseased animal 6. If it is
colored, coated, polished or powdered,
whereby damage or inferiority is con-
| cealed or if by any means it is made to
appear better or of greater value than
it really is. Z. If it contains any added
| substance or ingredient which is poi
| sonous or injurious to health.
Provided, that the provisions of this
| Act shall not apply to mixtures or COM
| pounds recognized as ordinary articles
| or ingredients of articles of food, if
each and every package sold or offered
for sale be distinctly labeled as mix
lures or compounds, with the name
and per cent of each ingredient there