The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-08-04
END TO MIsBRANDING.
Frauds on the Public Likely to Be Ended
by the Pure-Food Law.


Washington, Aug. 4.--Misbranding OF
food products win not be permitted UNI
der the new pure food law. 1.-THE sub
ject Of labelling and compromising is to
be the chief point Of the regulations in
their reference to the public said an
official Of the department Of agricul.
tre. eAdulterated foods are not Of real
menace 70 tile consumer. Take away
the food prcseryatiyes and occasional de-
letcrious coloring and little harm is
done. II Is in misbranding that the pub
fic Is deceived"
A firm in writing to the department
Of agriculture, wanted to know about
the brand 10 be employed on lard prod
uets This firm makes pure leaf lard;
also what it calls pure refined lard z
Investigation proves that the latter ar
tice Is lard compound with cottonseed
OIL Under the definition 70 be given
the word pure by the government il
i but compound, and must be brand
ell as such. Pure refined is higher
type Of lard. 4 mixture Of lard and
cottonseed oil i d compound and the
pure refined label would be a fraud
One caller at the department wanted
to know How about the label Nest
phalia ham'4H He was pointed 10 sec
ton ri the law prohibiting misrepresen-
tations az 20 the origin Of product.
aBut.n lie insisted, there is town IN
this country BY the name Of Westphal-
ia.H he was asked ii he really had
that place III mind when he labeled his
goods "Westphalia ham" His smile was
faint Ii Is expected that the new reg
ulations Will clear all such cases Of false
labelling and misbranding q compounds
1t is the purpose Of Secretary Wilson
To pit IN tic entire summer making a
close study If conditions incident to the
enforcement Of the meat inspection and
pure food laws lie will take no vaca-
tion. but will spend the summer visiting
all sections Of the country to see for
himself Just what conditions exist in
production which will require inspection
aud attention generally in order that
these laws, when they 60 into effect,
shall be Of real value to the consumers
Of foods
The committee in charge of the matter
Of making regulations under which the
pure food law Is to be enforced will de-
vote al the time until about the middle
of September hearing producers who
have anything TO say on the subject nf
the regulations AZ to labelling 10 this
branch 81 the regulations much atten-
tion will be given. A print Of the de-
paitment food standards has Just been
ordered. and it is the opinion Of the
best informed men that this standard
which il made under authority Of Con-
gress by the department in consultation
with leading state chemists. win be
adopted ~ the board in making the
regulations as the standard for the guild
ance OF the courts in determining wlcth-
er foods against which complaints have
been lodged are adulterated, misbrand-
ed or compounds. 1t Is the opinion Of
Secretary Wilson that the new pure food
law will have the effect Of putting
stop to frauds upon the public perpe-
trated al present by misbrandinS In
regard to the meat inspection regula-
tions put out by The department, he
believes shey are the most drastic known
u any country IN the world and that
they will at one restore the foreign
trade Of this country and the confidence
Of our own people in the wholesome
ness and hcalthfulness Of our meat
products.