Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-06-02
flAv0RING EXTRACTS
Bulletin OF the State Dairy
and Food Commits
sion

and Food Commits
sion
Probably in no, other line Of food
products have the people Of Minnesota
been more imposed upon in the past
than in the line of flavoring extracts
all kinds. The temptation to put out
q cheap imitation article tas been
great and many of the manufacturers
of these products have apparently care
fully studied the question Of getting
cut as cheap an article as possible in.
stead of striving to pat out as good an
article az they could.
I'VE nave no specific law regulating
the manufacture and sale of flavoring
extracts. Those articles of food, the
manufacture and sale of which are not
regulated by specific laws, come un-
der the regulations OF the general food
adulteration law, and 1t remains for
the commission to handle the question
by various rulings.
Accordingly in May 1904, the de.
partment issued q bulletin defining
legal extracts of all kinds and the sale
Of illegal goods to the retailer was
prohibited after July l, 1904. The
illegal goods In the hands of retailers
were to be disposed of before Janu-
ary l, 1905. The time allowed for the
disposition of the old goods was later
extended to July /, 1906. Prosecu-
tions will follow where these goods
are discovered after that time and all
dealers should be careful not to have
any of the old goods on hand.
The rolling formerly referred to pro.
hibits the artificial coloring Of lemon
extracts, and the article must be
manufactured from pure lemon oil and
ethyl alcohol. 1t must contain at
least five per cent of the lemon oil. If
1t contains less it may be sold as legal
providing it is labelled and sold as
lemon flavor or lemon flavoring. I"
Some manufacturers use the peel of
the lemon to give slight yellow
color to the product, and this il
allowable. Many of the manufactur-
ers are not doing THE, however. and
the consumer should remember that
white colorless lemon extract now on
the market may be just as good as
that having yellow.
The purchaser who wishes to buy
the best should remember the differ
ence between lemon extract ana
"iemon favor or "lemon flavoring."
The same holds true With vanilla
extract and vanilla flavor or
vanilla Aavorine. Nothing bnt the
pure attractive products from vanilla
beans and ethyl alcohol is allowed
in vanilla extract. - Foreign
coloring matter is not allowed, and
many Of the pure vanilla extracts are
light colored. This is not an indica-
tion of inferiority.
''Vanills favor or ''vanila favor
ing may be made Of part vanilla
bean extract and other Ingredients,
such as tonka. conmarin, vanillin,
etc. These favors must bear a label
giving the true ingredients. In case
no vanilla bean extract Is used in
the manufacture Of the product cara.
mel may be used as coloring mat.
ter.
In this also the purchaser should
remember the difference between the
articles labelled vanilla extract" and
vanilla favor or vanilA1 fsvoring.''
In all cases when the extracts can.
not te prepared from the natural
fruits, such as banana, pineapple,
strawberry, etc., the synthetic pro-
duct must bear the name artificial
Immediately preceding the name of
the fruit from which the extract is
represented TO nave been made.
Below are the reports received from
our laboratory since the issue of our
last bulletin showing the most fragrant
violation of our pure food laws.
Lab. No. 297. Sorghum. Ten
nessee' brand. National Molasses Co.,
St. Louis, Mo. Illegal. Sample is a
glucose mixture. Sold as pure
sorghum.
Lab. No. 131 Lemon Extract,
Bulldog brand. Phillip B. Hunt,
Minneapolis. Illegal. Sample con.
tains no lemon oil and contains wood
alcohol Wood alcohol Is q deadly
poison.
Lab. No. 289. Sorghum, Fancy
Sor9hum,' Towle Syrup Co., St.
Paul. Illegal. Sample is glucose
mixture. Sold rs pure sorghum.
Lab No. 420. Cherries, Monarch
brand Reid Mnr1och e, tn Gh,ca.