The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-29
PURE FOOD LAW
TO Be EFFECTIVE
Inspector VIII Have Free Ac.
cess to Places Where Food
Is Prepared.
SANITARY CONDITIONS
ARE TO BE BETTERED
Slaughter-HOu viii Also Be
Inspected by Commissioner;
Details of Law.

Among the bills which were approved
by Governor Cutler last Tuesday. and
which Will soon become law. was the
act defining tho duties of the dairy
and food commissioner and ESTABLISHING
standard of purity for food products.
When THIS law becomes effective there
VIII no longer be any doubt as to the
jurisdiction Of the dairy and food com
missioner and if the city ordinances
are made to harmonic with the act.
the food inspector viii have free ac.
cess to all places of business where food
is prepared. stored or served TO patrons,
lhe law prescribes. moreover, that
AL dealers, clerks, bookkeepers, ex-
press agents, railroad officials, en-
pIoyees, or common carriers shall render
all the assistance in their power, when
so requested, in tracing, finding or dis
covering the presence of any article
prohibited by law and in securing sam.
pies thereof. Refusal to comply with
the request is deemed a misdemeanor.
The law is also an improvement over
the existing statutes IN that it holds
the dealer responsible for infringe
ments on Its provisions, no matter
whether he does so knowingly or not.
The section I'm question reads as fol
lows: No person, firm or corporate
body shall, within the State, manufac-
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session with intent TO sell. or sell any
adulterated or mishranded article of
food or substance to be used in the man
ner or food or drink. it shall be un-
lawful for any person TO sell or offer
for sale, or have in his possession with
intent to sell, any article of food that
has become tainted, decayed, spoiled, or
is otherwise unwholesome or unfit 10 be
eaten or drunk. -
Sanitary Conditions.
Certain sections of the act are in
tended to bring about more sanitary
conditions in hotels, restaurants, etc,
and these may also result in greatly
benefting the public. According to |
Section 3S, whenever it is determined |
by the commissioner that filthy or I'M
conditions exist IN the opera
non Of any restaurant, hotel, bakery,
or ice cream plant or
my place where food or drink products
ire stored or kept for sale the owners
notice the warning. they are guilty of
misdemeanor II is made unlawful
or persons afflicted with certain com
nunicable diseases TO be employed in
my capacity which requires the hand
ing Of food.
Slaughter houses are also TO he in
pected by the commissioner and he is
alton to carry out the provisions of
he act.
Provision also is made for conduct
ng the dairy business. Milk must be
Whole milk and must contain not less
han three and two-tenths per cent of
rom which cream has been removed
must be labeled and sold as "skim
milk. - The addition of coloring mat
er or preservative TO the milk is pro-
ibited. The label is TO be. placed on
he outside of every vessel from which
he milk is sold, in Gothic letters not
ass than one inch high Diluted and
milk must also be labeled
n like manner.
Marketing of Cream.
Another sweeping clause is that
-hich deals with the marketing of !
ream 1t asserts that ''cream OF stand
rd purity shall be cream produced )
rom normal milk, free from all kinds
f additions, and containing not less
nan 90 per cent of butter fat. The
ale of cream which is not of standard
urity is prohibited and dealers are pro- $
ibited from selling cream containing {
less per Centage Of butter fat than {
represented. The selling Of cream |
yIscogen is not prohibited
the product is labeled. !
Butter Of standard purity must be s
auc from normal Ulllk or cream, 1rcc c
'om all kinds of additions, except salt
nd harmless coloring matter, and must 7
,ntain not less than eighty per cent !
butter fat On each package Of but |
II manufactured and offered for sale i
IL name and address of the manufac- q
lrcr must be stamped on the wrapper, 4
'gether with the actual number of o
Inccs contained in the package at the v
me of its manufacture. y
The premises and utensils used in v
lc production or transportation of a
ilk or cream or any food products IL
ust be kept clean and in sanitary
'ndtion, When utensils are returned =
ON the consumer they must be washed y
,mediately and thoroughly clcaused p
I'd aired n
The penalty for violation OF any of p
10 provisions Of the act is n fine of q
IT. less than fittv dollars or more than b
20 hundred dollars. a