The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-06
PURE FOOD BILL
is INTRODUCED
Measure Is Designed to Pre-
vent All Manner of AduI-
terationS.
BAD WHISKY is PROHIBITED
COMMISSIONERS AND DEPUTIES
ARE PROVIDED FOR.

Representative Kuchler of Ogden in
tioduced in the house yesterday the
pure food bill which was drafted under
the direction of State Food and Dairy
Commissioner Peterson. The bill is an
extended and comprehensive one. pro-
posing to codify and revise all existing
laws OF the state on the subject Of food
inspection and food purity.
me Kuchler bill was referred 10 the
committee on public health. 1t is un-
derstood a bill following the lines Of
the recently enacted federal law on the
same subject will be introduced within
few days and that the two bills will
be considered together
The Kuchler bill provides FOR a dairy
and food commissioners at a salary of
$1,000 year. and a deputy at a salary
of $1,000. The commissioner is en-
powered to appoint special inspectors
az the proper performance of the duties
Of the office require, to be paid not
more than $1,000 i'm one fiscal year The
actual and necessary expenses of these
officials. i'm the performance OF their
official duties, are to be paid The bill
provides also for state analyst or
cheWist at a salary of $1,000 a year.
The commissioner or his deputies are
empowered to examine any restaurant,
nOltlr DdhtIy. NOlllGEllODeIY OF Ice
cream plant where insanitary condi-
tions are deemed TO exist, and notify
the owner or owners to place the same
in sanitary condition, and failure to
obey such notice or summons shall
subject the owner or owners to fine or
Imprisonment, with increasing penalty
for succeeding effenses. Similar powers
are granted i'm the case of creamerieS,
cheese factories etc.
Dpa 1pr= in concentrated iaII
feeding stuhs used for feeding cattle.
are required to furnish certificates
showing the chemical analysis of the
product.
Prohibited ingredients.
Section AZ of the bill contains the
following: at shall be unlawful to
manufacture fer sale, SELL expose or
offer for sale any food or food products,
or any mixture or compound of food
or drink containing any of the follow
| ing ingredients: Borax, boric acid, sail
cylic acid. formaldehyde, formalin. COO
culus indious, copperas, opium, extract
Of logwood, strychnine, arsenic, tobac-
co. copper or lead, salts of zinc, methyl
alcohol, terra alba, zarytas, tale, sac
charine. capsicum, picric acid or any
other substance injurious to health. 1t
| shall also be unlawful to add or apply
| to any article designed for sale or used
| for food any preventative or coloring
which conceals or tends to conceal the
taste, odor or other evidences of putre-
faction, faint or filth existing in such
article, or which conceals or tends to
| conceal infeIIority in any FORM
Section AZ is az follows: THE manu-
facture or sale OF any baking POWDER
/ that contains any ingredients injurious
| to health is prohibited. 1t shall be un-
1 lawful 10 manufacture, sell. expose or
lNff L
| there shall appear upon the label of
each package, plainly separated from
other reading matter and printed upon
a light locoled label with black ink in
| type not smaller than eight point bold
face Gothic capitals, the words, This
baking powder is composed Of tho fol-
| lowing ingredients and none other
and Immediately followed by the COM
mon English name of each ingredient
also the name and address of the man
ufacturer of such baking powder
The coloring OF fruit, jellies, jams
etc. made of glucose, dextrin etc. in
imitation of the natural fruit products
is prohibited, and the same must bear
a label stating the exact character of
the product.
Maple syrup and maple sugar must
be true to name" is an express provi-
sion IF the till
A fine of $75 to 800 attaches to viola
lions OF these provisions
No Whisky AduIteration.
Section As strikes at adulterated
! whisky in these words: IF any person
shall adulterate any malt spirituous or
vinOus liquors used or intended for
drink, by mixing the same in the
manufacture or preparation thereof. or
by process of rectifying. or otherwise,
| with any deleterious drug, substance
or liquod which is poisonous or injuri-
Gus to health, except as herein provid-
ed, or If any person shall sell, or offer
to sell. any wine or spirituous or intox-
icating liquors, or shall import into
this state any wine or spirituous or in
toxicating liquors, and sell. or offer
for sale, such adulterated liquors, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof, shall be
punished by a fine not to exceed $500.
THE provisions OF this act shall not
be construed as to prevent druggists.
physicians and person engaged in the
| mechanical VS. In.