The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02
STATE CAPITOL.
PUMPKIN |. IN C ).
It's Use in the aPure Tomato Prod
uct Has Been Made
Illegal,
The New Budd Law Is q Sweeping
Measure Against Adulter-
alton Of Food.

One OF the most important laws passed
by the last legislature was the Budd anti
adulteration law. It Is a miniature Of the
federal pure food law known as the Hep
burn act. and is very sweeping in its
terms 1t applies to any food or con-
diment, or to any drink not containing
over 2 per cent Of alcohol.
The Budd law absolutely prohibits mis-
branding or adulterating food products,
and provides a fine Of $25 to SIS for each
offense, or Imprisonment not to exceed
ninety days. Misbranding is defined as
follows:
''The term misbranded as used herein
applies to all articles Of food or articles
used in the composition Of food drink or
condiments, the packages or labels of
which shall bear any statement purporting
to name any ingredients or substance con-
tanned in such article which statement
shall be false in any particular; or any
statement purporting to name the sub
stance of which said article is made,
which statement shall not fully give the
names of all the substances contained in
the article in any quantity, or which
names as a single article OF food any mix
ture or compound. The term drink" as
used herein shall not include liquids con-
tanning two (2) per cent or more Of alco-
hol.''
| Any article is termed adulterated, un-
der the provisions Of the bill:
l L
| has or have been mixed and packed with
| it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously
| effect it's quantity or strength, so that
such product when offered for sale, shall
| deceive or tend to deceive the purchaser,
| or
Second, If any substance or sub
4 stances has or have been substituted
| wholly or in part for the article, SO that
4 the product, when sold, or offered for sale
1 shall deceive or tend to deceive the pur-
u chaser, or .@%
4 Third, If any valuable constituent Of
4 the article has been wholly or in part alb
4 stracted, so that the product when sold OF
4 offered for sale shall deceive or tend tc
deceive the purchaser, or
Fourth, If it contains any added pol
I sonous ingredient or an Ingredient which
Il may. render such an article injurious te
4 the health Of the person consuming it., o.
Fifth, If it consists in whole or in par
of a filthy, deconposed. or putrid ANNA
:, or vegetable substance, or any portion o.
}: any animal unfit for food, whether manu-
" featured or not, or II it is. the produc
y of a diseased animal, or one that ha:
i. died otherwise than by slaughter, or,
L sixth. If it. be mixed, colored
powdered, or.stalned IN q manner where
< by damage Or inferiority is concealed 81
. that such product, when sold or offered TO
5. SALE shall deceive; or tend to deceive tn
8 purchaser. -" o$s o. s. -:
II The enforcement OF This law is in tn
: hands Of the state dafrg%aand food de
n partment. The experience Of enforcfn
s the old laws gives*th state officers ever
e preparation to carry out this new meas
: ure. #trhey are wei, acquainted with tn
e extent to which adulteration or substitu
8 ton is2searried. etehup'' or. scatsup
adulterated with ground pumpkin in mos
cases, and often made of spoiled toma
toes charged with some preseryativ'
# which would Absorbing the article unde
e the provisions Off the anti preservativ
- law Even sucir "a staple article as BUCK
a wheat flour; Isl oaddlterated with groun
e sorghum seed and shorts, often contain
$ ing very little of Che genuine buckwhea
e Most Of these authorizations are notHact,
e, ally harmful but result IN the consum'
n paying full price for an Inferior articl
nj and the producer suffering by the sui
g stitution of inferior products.
'e The law will undoubtedly be fought
I'll some OF the interstate manufacture
= and will have to pass the test of the S,
preme court but it has been very car
i fully drawn in anticipation Of such s
ordeal.