The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-16

the new labels will bring to light some
interesting facts. Paregoric, so long
administered to babies, according to
the new labels contains As per cent
of alcohol and two grains of opium.
Doubtless many mothers will prefer to
rock their babies to sleep in the face
of that dreadful label, which must
find place on every bottle of par
egoric sold. There are many mixtures
once familiar to the drug trade which
the new law and Health Commissioner
Darlington have forced out of New
York, for the Health Commissioner has
made it known to the drug trade that
so-called standard" mixtures must
bear label stating just the proper
tons of alcohol, opium, cocaine and
other substances they contain.
The makers of proprietary medicines
have until October in which to get
out their new labels, but paster labels
must be used at once to tell the
truth about alcohol, opium and other
drugs offered the public. Many drug
gists in this city have been busy in
the last few weeks writing to manu-
facturers of the various preparations
they have in stock, asking that past
ers be furnished at once giving the in
gradients, or that general guarantee
of protection be given to them, for the
law provides that no dealer in food
or drugs products shall be liable to
prosecution for sale If he can es-
tablish that the goods questioned. were
sold him under a guarantee by the
wholesale manufacturer, jobber, deal
er or other party living in the United
States from whom they were purchas-
ed. Provision is also made that a
general guarantee may be filed with
the Secretary Of Agriculture by the
manufacturer or dealer, such guaran-
tee to have serial number, and that
number to appear on each and every
package sold under the guarantee, ac-
companied by the words, Guaranteed
under the Food and Drug Act, June
30, 1906"
Among the new labels that are now
making their appearance as fast as
the presses can turn them of, no
labels intended for use on whiskey
bottles are to be found, and the explain.
alton of that fact is that there is
some doubt as to just what is meant
by blended whiskey. Regulation 21,
referring to Compounds, limitations or
blends without distinctive name,"
states that 1.-THE term blend applies
to mixture of like substances, not
excluding harmless coloring or flaw
oring only" This provision. it is said,
would in no way affect most of the
pure ryes" now on the market; but
Section D Of the same regulation adds:
I'm order that colors or flavors may
not increase the volume of weight of
blend, they are not to be used in
quantities exceeding one pound to
eight hundred pounds of the blend"
1t is said that many of the blended
whiskeys" now on the market cannot
be put up under these conditions, and
that the manufacture of some of them
must be abandoned. Men prominent
in the whiskey trade are now endeav-
oring to find out where they stand in
this matter.
The law has brought with it another
pang to the heart of the lover of the
artistic in liquids. The rosy checked
Maraschino cherry must go. The
chemicals used to give 1t is excess
sively bright red coloring come with
in the prohibition of the law, and the
cherry in the dull red of its natural
color is coming into its own again.
Cough drops containing drugs or mar
cotics must be labelled so that there
cannot be the slightest doubt about
the amount of drug the purchaser of
them is taking with each drop. Head
ache powders may no longer be sold
labelled simply as such.
Druggists all over are now busy
pasting on stickers telling just what
drugs these powders contain. But it is
hard, ~even In the f.ce Of the require
ments Of the law, for the makers of
these products to tell all that their
beloved powders contain. For instance,
on one well known kind of headache