The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-27
sausage, soda, syrups, lemonade, ex-
tracts, etc.
PreserVatives

Personalities.
Personalities are used in various ar
| ticIes of food, especially those which
spoil or ferment readily; such as
milk, cream, cider. grape juice. ketch-
ups, sausage. etc
! Suspicion of a preservative NAV be
| inferred if the article of food is kept
in warm place for forty-eight to sew
/ enty-two hours without souring, fer
menting or spelling.
/ Appearance, odor and taste often af-
/ ford a valuable clue TO the character of
/ foods:
/ A bright green color in canned peas,
/ beans, etc. indicates strongly the pres
! ence of copper OF iron.
| A brilliant red color in catsups. sau-
| ces. jams, jellies. fruit, canned tOma-
/ toes, etc, indicates the presence of
/ (usually) an aniline dye
A bright yellow color in powdered and
prepared mustard, extract of lemon,
noodles etc, shows artificial coloring
which generally proves TO be All aniline
color.
Abnormally white color in canned
corn and other foods indicate that
bleaching agents have been used.
A peculiar sweetish taste in canned
corn, peas. catsups grape juice. cider.
jams, jellies, fruits is an indication of
SacC harine or coal tar sugar.
4 very prominent odor. readily dis
tinguished by a little experience from
the genuine, enables one to detect an
artificial extract. especially strawberry,
raspberry and pineapple.
Absence or weakness of the charac-
tetristic aromatic odor and taste in all
spices denotes an inferior, exhausted or
adulterated article.
Labelling of Foods.
The labelling of foods often gives an
indication of its character. A pure food
worthy of the name, always bears the
name of the manufacturer and place of
business. An imitation or adulterated
article often bears no label or manufac-
turer or locality, or else some fictitious
firm. For example: LOubon olive oil,
Durand olive oil-no company or coun-
try stated.
An alum baking powder, unless COM
PEELED by law, does not state its ingre-
dents upon the label, while invariably
a cream of tartar powder informs the
consumer of its character. Salad oil is
usually nothing but the cheap cotton
seed oil. a butter, labeled "ChOice
Sunbeam creamery butter" or other
fanciful name, without the manufac-
turors' name, will prove in nearly every
/ instance to be the renovated article or
more likely oIeomargarine-
Prices of Foods.
The price of an article is often an in
diCatiOn of its character, because near
ly all foods have specific values. For
example: Baking powder retailing for
% cents for a pound can, cannot be
a cream of tartar powder, nor can a
pint of olive oil retailing for quarter,
be the genuine article. Only inferior,
damaged or adulterated goods are, as
a rule, sold below the market price.
AduIteratIng Foods.
Section q. Every person who aduI-
terates or diluteS any article of food,
or any article used in compromising
them, with q fraudulent intent to offer
same, or cause or permit it to be offered
for sale as unadulterated or undiluted,
and every person who sells, or keeps,
or offers for sale. the same. as unadul-
terated or Undiluted, is guilty of mis-
demeanor-
"AduIterated" Defined.
Section % That for the purpose of
this act, an article shall be deemed
adulterated, in the case of food or
drink.
First-If any substance or substances
has or have been mixed and packed
with it, so as TO reduce or lower or in
juriOusly affect its quality or strength
so that such product when offered for
sale, shall deceive or tend to deceive
the purchaser.
Second-If any substance, or sub
stances has or have been substituted
wholly or in part for the article, so that
the product when sold, shall deceive
or tend to deceive the purchaser.
ThiTd-If any valuable constituent of
the article has been wholly or in part
distracted. so that the product when
sold shall deceive or tend to deceive the
purchaser.
Fourth-If it be an initiation of, or
sold under the specific name of any
other article.
Fifth-If it be mixed, colored, coated,
powdered, polished, or stained in
manner whereby damaged or inferiOrity
is concealed, so that such product when
sold shall deceive or tend to deceive
the purchaser.
Sixth-If it contain any added pois-
OnOus ingredient, or any ingredient
which may render such article injurf-
Gus to the health of the person consum-
ing 1t.
Seventh-If it be labeled or branded
so as to deceive or misIead the pur-
chaser.
Eighth--If it consists of the whole or
part of a diseased, filthy, decomposed,
or putrid animal or vegetable sub
stance, or any portion Of an animal un-
fit for food. whether manufactured or
not; or IL it is the product of a dis
eased animal that has died otherwise
than by slaughter.
UnwhoIesome Food.
Section 81 It shall be unlawful for
any person to knowingly sell. or keep
or offer for sale, any article of food
knowing that the same has become
tainted, decayed, spoiled or otherwise
unwhOlesome or unfit to be eaten or
drunk.
Any person who shall violate any pro-
vision of this act, or who shall misbran1
any package, containing any article Of
food. shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanOr, and upon conviction thereof
shall be punished by q fine of not less
than ten, nor more than one hundred
dollars, and any article of food found
in his possession IN violation of any
provision of this act shall be subject
to cOnfiscatiOn and sDOilation.
NOte.-Under the statute a dealer is
liable for selling an adulterated article,
although he may have no knowledge
that the same is adulterated.