Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-09
STORY TOLD By THE LABELS
One Guide to Gocd ess Which Nebraska
Has Not Adopted Yet
INSIDE OF CANS MANIFEST ON OUTSIDE
Mrs. Providem Notes This on Her
Round of the Grocer Shops and
Buys Another and Cheaper
Sunday Dinner.
INSIDE OF CANS MANIFEST ON OUTSIDE
Ad NO. 9

While we are waiting for the pure food
law to be passed by the Legislature of Me-
braska-and just now the druggist and
patent medicine manufacturers exer-
cising their minds and muscles fighting it
it will be we'll for the food provider to
study up the national law a little. This
section, for instance: "An article shall be
deemed TO be misbranded If it be labeled
or branded so as to deceive or mislead the
purchaser. or purport to be a foreign prod
duct when not so, or II in package form
and the contents are stated in weight or
measure, they are not plainly and correctly
stated on the outside of the package, or
ii the package containing it or its label
shall bear any statement, design or device
regarding the ingredients or the substances
contained therein which shall be false or
misleading in any particular"
That sums up some of the various ways
we food providers have been deceived and
made to buy adulterated goods, and although
II is not quite so necessary to study the
labels to detect adulteration as 1t was be-
fore the law passed. 1t is a novel form OF
literature and in it's present form an edu-
Gator to the food provider.
Label us an Indicator.
For instance, Mrs. Providem was buying
some canned peas for her basket the other
day, and her grocer, replying in the mega
tive to her inquiry II he kept a certain
brand, offered another and stated that
he would give her the extra sifted," show
ing her two cans, one marked "sifted"
and one extra sifted,' and said he sold
them for the same price, although paying
little more for the extras, and perhaps
reserving them for his best customers
So the food provider carefully reading her
labels would get a finer grade OF peas by
observing that one extra word.
And this section about confectionery has
interest: at shall be deemed to be adul-
terated IL IT contains terra alba, barytes
tale, chrome yellow or other mineral sub
stance or poisonous color or flavor or other
ingredient deleterious to health, or any
vinous, malt or spurious liquor or COM
pound or narcotic drug" Terra alba,
barytes, tale! chrome yellow! in the candy
our children eat! There's a pretty box of
candy sold in our market now labeled
perfect sugar stick candy. guaranteed TO
| contain only the finest grade of confec-
toners A sugar. best fruit havors and
vegetable color. This candy does not con-
tain glucose or any adulteration whatso-
( ever"
/ Inns SohANSNiOheI ItudDle man ana
the label on the box is doubtless true, but
II II were not there would be no recourse
against him, for this candy is made in Ne
braska, and sold In Nebraska. and so far
Nebraska has no food law against putting
in all the terra alba. barytes. tale OF
chrome yellow any dealer may desire to,
and no way TO reach him II he tells a lie
on his label. But II he attempts to sell IL
over in Council Bluffs, the national law
can deal with him.
| About Your COnee.
billion pounds Of coffee we OF the
United States drink In a year. and more
than half Of that has been labeled Mocha
and Java" but Mocha exports only two
/ million pounds. and Java ten million, and
Turkish and Egyptian traders go TO Arabia
| before the crop is ripe and buy the Mocha
crop on the tree They make sure that Il
is not picked before IL is perfectly ripe and
| they attend TO its preparation themselves,
and the coffee that reaches Mocha and is
exported from Alden Is only what these
merchants thought too poor to buy" A
report from the department OF state OF the
United States government says the terms
Mocha and Java, which In oIden times IN
dicated the source OF origin, have now
become mere characteristics OF quality and
blend" Good bye. Mocha and Java! and
HAN Brazilian and Mexican coffee. which
We have been drinking these many years.