The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-05
FOOD BILLS
COVER THE FIELD
State Inspector Outlines I'm
portant Measures That Are
Sweeping in Scope.
ASSURANCES OF SUPPORT
UNIFORM LAW TO BE ADOPTED
BY MANY STATES.


f.ATFON =
A pure food LAW that viii be uni >
= form With similar laws now IL ex- .
= istenee or proposed for other states =
= in the Union. =
A meat inspection law. =
dairy inspection law.
law dealing with the dressing =
= of poultry and fish for the market. =
law requiring sufficient labelling y
y OF food products OH the market =
y law making Il imperative that =
y the exact weight Of every food pro- =
= duct be correctly given =
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Bills ofsuch a character and scope that
the public health will be safeguarded
from injury by poisonous ingredients of
food products will be introduced in the
next state legislature. John Peterson. the
ering these bills and will work hard to
secure their passage. He has already
received assurances of aid from a num-
Der of influential members of the legisla-
ture and is hoping to see every bill he
recommends made a law.
One of the most important bills to be
Introduced is one which makes the pure
food law Of Utah uniform with similar
laws In other sta ties. At meeting of
the National Association of Pure Food
Commissioners last year model law was
recommended for passage in al Of the
states Several states already have such
u law ana QlHeFS Will ADOPT II at the
present sessions OF the state legislature
The importance OF this law is evident
when IL IS understood that with such a
law in every state the manufacture and
sale of impure food would be impossible
For If the sale Of a certain article of
food would be in violation of the pure
food law of any one state it would also
ne in violation of the laws of every other
state and its sale would be impossible
What are known to food commissioners
t-diXfdend T1OfeOneF rvnl1fd RI n,
be eliminated from ali food products.
Ban on Dividend Poisons.
The meat inspection bill will be thor
ough in its scope. BY its provisions. if it
becomes q law. there win be a meat in
spector for every slaughter house. Every
animal viii be Inspected before il is killed
and the meat inspected after it is dressed
Every butcher shop will be inspected
thoroughly and often. If the meat in
spector finds any animal suffering from
tuberculosis or any other disease it will
be condemned and permission to slaugh-
ter II for meat denied. The meat will be
Inspected and If not properly cleaned and
dressed IL will be condemned. The grind
ing of sausage viii also come under this
inspection law ard butchers will be for
hidden to make sausage from scraps and
trimmings.
Mr.. johnson would have the packers
and butchers stand the cost Of this in
Spectlon and IN tue bill will provide a
nominal fee for such inspection in order
that the added expenses of the depart
ment may not be borne by the state.
Dairy Inspection Bill.
Under the dairy inspection bill which
Mr. Johnson proposes inspectors of diaries
Will be created, whose duty it shall be
10 inspect the handling of all of the milk
in the state. A standard for milk will
be fixed and all milk falling short of
this STANDARD viii be condemned The
milk will be tested for disease germs and
OF course. if any are found the milk will
be declared unfit for use. The cows. fhe
harms, the feed and the handling of the
milk viii all come in for a thorough in
spection.
This bill. il Is believed. will be as bene-
fetal to the dairymen as to the custom
ers, for il Will give 10 the milk dealers
the state guarantee that the milk is pure
and will assist them in keeping only
profitable cows.
The state dairy and food commissioner
rs insisting on the passage of a law that
VIII require that all poultry and fish be
drawn before being placed in cold stor-
age The impurities resulting from the
keeping of undrawn fish and fowl in stor-
age are many and the resultant danger
70 public health is a menace. declares the
inspector. In addition to that the con-
sumner Is expected to pay the freight on
the entrails and the heads and feet of
poultry, and also to pay again for them
at nearly as much as for dressed fish
and poultry.
Pound Means Sixteen Ounces,
There is at present a state law reoilir-
ing the proper labelling of all food pro-
duets, but this law does not cover the
subject. For instance if does not re-
quire that storage chicken or storage
eggs be labeled as such, and there is no
provision that WOULD force the grocere
to put label on butter that would in
dicate whether il was Utah butter or
had been shipped 10 Utah from the east
a revision Of the law on weights OF
articles Of food is also of prime import
aEce- Under the proposed revision IL is
to be impossible for a grocer 10 sell four-
teen or fifteen ounces of butter for a
pound. The bill provides that the but
ter shall not only be labeled fifteen
ounces, but that the grocer shall sell
( as fifteen ounces and charge for il
Is Fifteen ounces. not as a pound
This provision extends to all products |
sold by the pound.
AIR. Peterson has called meeting of /
butchers and packers. TO be held at his 1
lffiee, 58 city and county building sf
l'elock this afternoon. The proposed meat |
Inspection law will be discussed at this l
meeting. The dairynsen will meet with
Mr.. Peterson tomorrow afternoon to dis
the DO .-,-