The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-01
A BILL
TO REQUIRE MANUFACTURERS AND SHIPPERS OF FOODS FOR INTER
STATE SHIPMENT TO LABEL SAID FOODS AND PRINT THE
INGREDIENTS CONTAINED IN SUCH FOODS
ON EACH PACKAGE THEREOF.

Bel enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States
in the manufacture, preparation or compromising of food for human consumption
shall s print in T Tann, view on , eao n package &c thereof made on by or % TN men ao snppe est from
ment of all the ingredients thereof defined by words in common Use to describe
said ingredients together with the announcement nat said tateme is made by
to name md connlnea ddnss ~ the makers shall he aHxed thereto all printed
in plain type If a size lot less than that known as eight point, and in the English
Sec {, That the covering of each andevery package of manufactured, prepared
or compounded foods shipped from any State, Territory or the District of Columbia
when the food lin said package shall have been taken from a covering supplied by
or for the makers and recovered by or for the seller, shall bear upon its face or
within its enclosure an accurate copyof the statement of ingredients and name Of
by or for the makers thereof printed in like manne as the shtemento of the makers
was printed, and such statement shall also bear the nan and address of the person,
firm or corporation that recovered such food.
Sec 3 That lit shall be unlawful for any person o personst purposely wlfuny
and malciousy remove alter oblterate r destroy such statement of ingredients
appearing OF packages of food as provided in the preceding sections: and any per-
ION or persons who shall violate this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor' and
hundred dollars, o imprisoned not less than n month or more than six months
Sec I, That the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture shall
procure, or aus o be procured. from retail dealers, and analyze, or cause to be
analysed Or examined, chemically, mioroscopicany o. otherwise, samples of all
manufactured, prepared or compounded foods offered for sale in original unbroken
packages in tn District OF Columbia In any territory or IN any state oher than
that n which they shall have been respectively manufactured or otherwise pro-
Secretary of Agriculture shall make necessary rules and regulations for carrying
out the provisions of this Act, and is hereby authorized to employ such chemists,
the provisions of this Act and to make such publication of the results of the e1ami-
Nations and analysis as he may deem proper. And any manufacturer, producer or
dealer who shall refuse to supply, upon application and tender and full payment of
the selling price samples of such articles of food to any person duly authorized by
the Secretary If Agriculture to receive Tho san hall Ne guilty of a msdemeanor,
and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned
not exceeding me hundred days, or both.
two of this Act shall be guilty of msdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined
not exceeding two hundred dollars for the first oGense and for each subsequent
oHense 20 exceeding three hundred dollars o be imprisoned not exceeding one
Sec. I, That any person, firm or corporation who shall wffuly purposely or
maiciousiy change ora ada TO n ingredients OF an 1000 nal raise charges ORR
correcta analysis, with the purpose o. subiecting the makers of such foods to fine IT
Imprisonment under this Act, shall be guilty of msdemeanor and upon conviction
shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars or l@st than three hundred dol
lars or imprisoned for not less than thirty days no more than one year, or both.
Sec 7, That tits shall be the duty of every district attorney to whom the Secretary
of Agriculture shall. report any violation of this Act to cause proceedings o be nm
menced and prosecuted without delay for the fines and penalties in such case pro-
vided.
Sec 5, That this Act shall not be construed to interfere with commerce wholly
internal in any State, nor with the exercise of their police powers by the several
States.
Sec, 0, That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this aot are hereby re-
peaed,
Sec. 10 That this Act shall be lin force and effect from and after the first day of
October nineteen hundred and six
The undersigned respectfully requests the Representatives from his district
and Senators from his state ito support this measure.