The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-19
LABEL MUST TELL ALI
No Pictures Of Maple Forests
for Corn Cob Syrups.
Troubles for the Pharmacists
Are Also Discussed.

Standing room was at a premium at
| the Commercial club rooms last night
and the audience consisted of grocery
men and druggists of the city who had
come to hear the pure food laws dis
cussed by Professors E. H. Bailey and
| L. E. Sayre of the State university
Professor l. E. Sayre, head of the
| pharmacy school of the university, told
of the troubles of the average druggist
since the pure food law, which affects
his stock in trade as well as the foods
went into effect.
His description of the way that medi-
cineS and drugs of all kinds have been
dished out in the past was enough to
cause his listeners to be thankful that
they had escaped the efforts which he
assured them had been fatal to others
He said: In the past the doctor who
wrote a prescription had no way of de-
termining whether it would accomplish
the purpose for which it was intended
or not unless he filed it himself or else
made an analysis of the drugs used
There has been no uniformity about
drugs placed on the market and often
druggists who meant TO be honest were
fooled and sold drugs which had been
diluted or in which injurious substitutes
We're used for the genuine. / have been
criticised for saying that these drug
gistS are incompetent or careless if not
dishonest but maintain that the state
ment is correct for a druggist should
be able to tell whether his goods are
what they are labeled without resorting
to analysis
The condition which has existed in
the past has made it extremely hard
for legitimate druggist to stay in bus
mess and meet the competition of those
who are known as the cut rate drug
gists and who made a business of SELL
ing inferior drugs and cutting the price
below that at which the genuine could
be sold.
The market has been flooded with
cheap limitations in the drug line and
many of them were not only limitations
but were deadly poisons. The law does
not mean that nothing but absolutely
pure drugs can be sold, but they must
be sold under label which states ex-
actly what they are. A soothing
syrup for infants can not be placed on
the market so laden with narcotics
that a child would be under its inf1u-
ence for hours unless the prescription
on the bottle tells exactly the proper
ton of each drug used in the COM
pound.
Where narcotics and habit pro-
ducing drugs enter into a prescription
the label must show to Just what ex-
tent. If alcohol or morphine is used |
the exact amounts must be stated |
From all over the state 1 have received |
letters from druggists who are COM |
pounding and selling patent medicines
of their own. asking what labels they
shall use. The law will protect the
public. and make all druggists honest
whether they are so inclined or not"
Professor Bailey's Talk.
Prof E. H Bailey, head of the
chemistry department of the state uni
board of health, followed with talk |
on the food products which was even
more fear inspiring than that of Prof.
Sayre. He said: we are al more
or less interested in pure drugs LOT
we are compelled to use them at times,
but the important items reached by
the pure food law are the food PROD
ucts for we use them three tunes a
day Kansas has needed this law PAD,
lv for wears as other states have had
such a law and Kansas has been
dumping ground for the food stuHs
which could not be sold in states
where these laws have been IN erect
The Topeka papers which have ag1-'
tated the proposition are responsible
for the enactment of the law which
Is one of the best now in operation
In the days of gran grand + ny
mt M fruit every fall, made thelr
1wn pickles and jams. smoked their
own meat and such things as canned
foods including socalled potted chlck-
hem In those days there was no
demand for pure food laws. but times
ave changed and great factories nave
.nrnng up which take the places or
0l1T grandparents, excepting oS AehA SAS
honesty is concerned
The federal government several
ears ago took action relative to the
neat products so that we are not as
really troubled from this source as
n the past however, there are adui-
Grants being used every day which
ire contrary to these laws That
right fresh looking sausage which
-ou have so often noted and probably
,urchased may have been on the
-erge of putrifact ion and only bright
ned bv the use of an injurious pre-
ervative.
THE catsup which you have bought
n the past believing that it was made
rom tomatoes was probably made of
,umpkins. colored with aniline and
weetened with glucose. The pure
ground pepper has possibly been
made from pepper stalks, ground
.ocoanut bulls and craker crumbs.
rhe fresh milk may have been most
INVITING else but made 70 present the
lppeara1ce of the fresh product by
ne addition CT fnrma1dehyde which
8 A poison and dangerous
Much of the cottonseed oil is
hipped away and comes back bearing :
fresh label and is sold as imported