Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-09-20
Pure Food Work orqanized.

Pure Food Work Organized.
State Food Commissioner II. r.
Wright has completed the list of ap
pointments under the new pure food
law, and the service will be organized
for active administration Oct. /. Ap
| pointments are as follows.
Inspectors. p. Morey, ues
Moines; G. b. Easier, Forest City; NJ
Il. Flynn, Burlington; John G. Tate
Des Moines.
Chemist. r. Chittck, Highland
| Park.
Assistant chemist-Mlss Avis Tai
colt, Des Moines.
A part of the equipment for the lab
oratory has been received by the com,
missioner from Europe, being ordered
through a local house, and by Oct
l all of it is expected to be on hand
and installed in the QUARTERS to be
used by the commissioner and his
force In the building RECENTLY pougnt
on East Eleventh street, across from
the capitol.
q The inspectors who have been ap
pointed by the food commissioner may
exercise the powers conferred by the
pure food law and provided for in the
law on milk inspection. They get So
a day when on duty, and expenses
The law respecting the powers OF the
inspectors includes the following pro
visions:
THE state food and dairy commits
sioner and his deputy and assistant,
shall have full access 60 all places OF
business, factories, buildings, wagons
and cars used in the manufacture, sale
or transportation within tho state OF
any diary products of any i'~aoD
| thereof.
"They may examine and open any
package, can or vessel containing, OF
believed to contain any article OF
product which may be manufactured.
sold or exposed for sale in violation
OF the laws OF this state relative ia
the dairy products and imitation
thereof, and may inspect the contents
therein and take therefrom samples
for testing or analysis"
| Already the food commissioner Is In
receipt of scores of inquiries respect
ing the administration of the law com
polling the sale of pure food only. in
Iowa. There are two classes of manu-.
facturers affectod-those who make
! legitimate goods but seek to preserve
them by the use of drugs and adulter.
ants, q custom which has grown up
because the drugs used were thought
to be used in such small qantities
as not to be harmful; and the clasa
which manufactures imitation goods
| The commissioner wastes no time with
respect to the troubles of the latter.
OF course; but the former are entitled
! to consideration.
! For instance, q maker OF jellies re.
, Gently called on the commissioners
with the insistent story that he would
have to go out of business unless he
could inject benzoin OF soda into the
jellies he made. II was his plea tina,
he dii business outside OF the city
altogether, and that 1t was impossible
to ship these goods safely unless tho
preservative was used. The commits
sioner has found out that there are
more secrets in the food preparation
business than I'm anything alse except
politics. Investigation disclosed the
fact that parafiine top on the recep
tacle holding the preserve or jelly
would adequately protect the contents
This is done by many manufacturers
1t costs some money. The manufac'
turer in question objected because in
shipment the tops would break. he
claimed, and the result would be
oJious. But the commissioner con
cluded that this made 1t unnecessary
to use the preservative and so decii'
| ed.