The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-25
PURE TOAD REGULATIONS.
DAIRY COMMISSIONER ISSUES
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.

Connecticut Law is Close Second With
 National Law-Aim is to Work in
 Harmony With National Law-What Misbranded Food Products Include Warning to All Manufacturers to Observe Provision of Law-Branding
 of Coffee and Labeling of Butter.
 Dairy Commissioner Noble has issued a circular to manufacturers and deal- CTS in food products calling attention to the provisions of the national pure food laws and of the state regulations. It Is as follows:
 The state dairy commissioners de- partment would respectfully call the attention of manufacturers of and dealers in food products in Connecticut of some of the provisions of the nation al pure food law and to the provisions of our Connecticut state law regarding the labelling of food products. Our Connecticut law is very closely in ac- cord with the national law in nearly all of it's provisions regarding labelling, and it is the aim and endeavor of the Connecticut agricultural experiment station and the dairy commissioners department under whose joint jurisdic tion the pure food laws of the state are enforced, to work in harmony with the provisions of the national law.
 Misbranded food products, under the Connecticut law, include every article of food, and every article which enters into the composition of food, the pack | age or label of which shall bear any l statement purporting to name any in- gredient or substance as not being con- 1 tained in such article, which state ment shall be untrue in any particular; or any statement purporting to name the substance, or substances of which l such article is made, which statement shall not give fully the names of all substances contained in such article in any measurable quantity.
 The Connecticut law also states that an article of food shall be deemed tdul- terated if it be an imitation of, or sold [under the name of another article; if any inferior substance or substances be substituted wholly or in part for the article; and there are several other provisions of our law which space will not allow us to publish at this time, but which are closely allied with the above, and very nearly in accord with the provisions of the national law.
 All of these provisions make it inn portant that all food products should
 be sold for just what they are and in all instances be true to their labels.
 We would, therefore, respectfully noti- fy and warn all manufacturers of, or dealers in food products that the above provisions must be observed and that all food products sold must be plainly labeled, so that all purchasers or con- sumers shall know what they are re- 1 ceiving.
 We wish, particularly, to call the at tention of dealers to the branding of coffee. Under the national law we un- Iderstand that no coffee may be labeled 1 Java, except such as is grown in Java or the islands adjacent thereto, whose product has for a long time been known to the public by that distinctive
 name. The ruling of this department, under our Connecticut law is, that all
 coffee must be sold under its true and
 distinctive name. Ma coffee may be
 sold for Java, or Mocha and Java
 which Is not so, in fact Santor, Rio or
 any other brand of coffee must be sold
 as such, and under its own name and
 not under the name Java" or any
 other brand ercept that under which ii
 is true to it's name.
 Mixtures of blends may be sold under
 their distinctive names or brands, but
 shall not be called one brand when in
 fact it is another and when composed
 of more than one brand shall not be named after any one of those brands.
 We wish also to call attention to the labelling of butter manufactured and put upon the market in Connecticut. 1 No creamery or private dairy in the
 state will be allowed in the process of
 manufacture to combine with its own product any butter taken from outside parties.