Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-10-24
Regulations Of Pure Food Law.


of agriculture has promulgated the
regulations under which the recently
enacted pure food and drug act will
be enforced.
The section of the regulations re-
specting the labelling of products re-
quires that the ingredients of the
package shall be stated, so that the
purchaser may know precisely what
he is buying.
In the matter of coloring the re-
quirement is made that no ingre-
dient known to be deleterious to hu-
man health shall be sued by the man.
ufactur RS. This regulation applies
with | ticular force to the manufac-
ture of candies.
Authorizations, particularly of
drugs, is prohibited, but standard
drugs will not be considered adulter-
ated provided they are branded so as
to show their actual strength or puri-
ty.
Poison or deleterious preservatives
shall only be applied externally land
shall be Of kind that will not per-
meate to the interior of the product,
and the preservative must be of
such character that until removed the
food or drug products is guarded
against. Particularly the label on
every product must bear the name of
the product. the place of man ufac-
ture, and must show whether the
article is compound mixture or
blend; it must also designate the
ingredients and the proportion in
case of drugs and foods. The use of
a false or misleading statement, de-
sign or devise Oh the label is speci.
fically prohibited.
When the regulations were submit
ted to the secretaries of the three de.
partments for approval, some changes
were made in them of very impor-
tant character. The use of geogra-
phical names, for instance, was pro-
vided for in cases where it was
thought the names were generic or
distinctive. 1t was provided, how
ever. that it should be indicted Oh the
package containing the product that
it was of American manufacture.
Thus champagne is required to be
labeled American champagne. or CAL
ifornia champagne, so that purchasers,
while they know that they are getting
a certain kind of wine. know also the
wine is made in America and not in
France. The regulations apply to
other products in similar way.
II was the effort of the commission
to insure to the purchaser any food or
drug prod lct in absolute purity.
The Republican being very sore be-
cause two attempts TO steal the chair.
manship of the republican county CEN
trail committee from this editor by
fraudulent counting of votes were
discovered and frustrated, now by
sneaky insinuations attempts to cast
reflections upon the work being done
by this committee. Suffice to say that
the committee has the unanimous en-.
dorsement of the county officials. who
are the parties most interested in the
election; that more preliminary work
has been done thus far in this cam
paign than in the same length of time
in the several years we have served
on this committee that the record of
the work of the committee the past
few years stands unequalled in the
history of the county in number of
meetings, in majorities, and in econo-
my that there is difference between
charging candidates for expenses ST. to
$2l each and rendering a complete
itemized account with receipted YOU
chers for every penny expended, and
in assessing them 500 to $3.50 each
and giving no accounting whatever
of what was done with the money.
We might also state that there seems
to be "A united and studied effort in
certain circles within the county, and
also without, to curtail and hamper
the work of the committee as much
as possible, as we'll as to belittle it.
But then, the methods of these par
ties are so we'll known that they need
not be enlarged upon.
Fourteen hundred teachers were in
attendance at the Northeastern Iowa
Teachers Association meeting at
Cedar Rapids last week. Supt. G. f.
Finch of Marion was elected president.
Miss Gertrude Kaye of Calmar vice
president, Miss Abbie s. Abbott of
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