Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-06-06
NEW FOOD MEASURE
IS NOW IN FORCE
NO EXCUSE FOR GETTING ADUL-
TERATED ARTICLES.
LABELS NUW TELL STORY
Makers Either Eliminate DeIeterious-
Substances or Make Frank Ad-
mission on the Packages-General
Conformity to the Act Is Ex-
pected.

At last the federal pure food law is
in force. There is no excuse today
for the housewife who puts adulterated
food on the table. She who buys
may read, and if after reading she is
content to make the purchase a part
of the breakfast, the dinner or the
supper, the fault and subsequent dis
aster. if t come, are upon her head.
The law states specifically that the
state the presence of adulterants and
OF harmful drugs. The law is in great
measure being followed to it's letter
Carelessness or Indifference to the
presence of impurities in the food
alone are respons BILE today for the
consumption by the household of food
that is not all food.
OF course those who live in hotels
and restaurants are not protected as
are the home dwellers, for the stew
ard or the chef or whoever it is that
buys for the table, may, if he will,
guests stomach, but even in the case
Of hotels and restaurants there is Of
sheer necessity less adulterated food
used today than has been in the past
The bottlers and Gamers find that t
pays to obey the law. and that the
market for the stuff which bears on
the label the tale of adulteration is
not a profitable one.
Causes Reform in Manufacture.
Today manufacturers Of food and
medicines whose products We're
shown by analysis to contain poisons
and deleterious substances have either
elm mated the Objectionable stuff
from their wares or have placed the
names and the quantities of the adul-
ter2nts or the pOisOns on the face of
the packages so that those who buy
may buy knowingly.
1t is fair statement to make that
the pure food law is the most bene
fetal law, from the point of view Of
the health of the people, that has ever
been put upon the statute books
The pure food law s today the sub
ject of conversation in every home in
the land. The women are reading
food labels and they are rejecting anG
have been rejecting for some time
cans and bottles which bear ON their
labels statements which, while not
so intended, are nevertheless taken as
words of warn ng.
A candy manufacturer said: This
bill has enabled me and | think all the
other candy manufacturers to get
pure chocolate for the making of our
candies. Prior to its passage, while
We ordered chocolate, we didn't get
chocolate. We got some kind of COM
)ination or other that gave the prod
uct the appearance and sometimes of
the taste of chocolate. Now we get
chocolate"
Here is an example of the manner
in which the pure food law works 1t
shows conclusiveIy that the fault in
the buying Of adulterated goods os
with the purchaser. A young woman
went into a grocery store few days
ago and asked for a pound of maple
sugar. She received brick of
sugar nicely done up in thin white
paper with printed matter in large
blue letters doing duty as a label.
The young woman took the purchase
home and ate some Of it without Civ
ing a thought to the reading of the
! label. The sugar didn't taste like
maple sugar, and a subsequent in
"pectiOn of the wrapper showed that
! these words largely and plainly print
ed were present: Guaranteed pure
H. pie and cane sugar
Now perhaps it was wholly wrong
for the grocer when asked for maple
sugar, to sell a compounded art Gle.
Two years ago the label on the com
pound very likely would have been
Guaranteed pure Vermont Maple
sugar, but today the law prevents the
lying. The grocer sold the sugar
without saying anything, but he did
/ not remove the wrapper, and it was
there for the reading. The pur-
chaser was careless.
| Recently all the bottles of table
! reIishes which enter into interstate
| commerce and which have ,preserva-
tives in them coming within the mean
! ing of the law as being deleterious
have the name of the preservat We and
! the quantity used set forth on the
! label There are these so-caIIed table
! relishes which have no preservatives
! in them, and if the housewife wants
them for her table absolutely pure she
, can get them.
Sure to Force a Reform.
| as matter of fact, the constant Tt.
/ lection by the men and women who
! 20 to market for articles that bear the
Inreservative record viii in me force
the manufacturers TO cook so thorough
! " their catsups and other products
that no preservatives will be needed.
! The housewives understanding is
/ that a cooking Of food to a point
/ where it WI preserve itself means
a shrinkage Of a product. and it is
/ this shrinkage which the makers wish
j to avoid. and in order to avoid {
Ithey half cook their products and
PIT the preservative in to keep them
sweet.
/ i is probable that before the whisky
matter is settled definitely it must go