The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-17
MILLERS TO USE
UP old SACKS
Given Extension of Time to Be-
gin Stamping the Correct
Weight on Flour.

Members of the state pure food COM
mission were busily engaged Thursday
afternoon. in considering the question
Of the proper labelling of food prod
uctS, and in listening to repOrts'o the
officers OF the state bureau. In ad-
dition to holding their regular meet
ing. to consider several matters Of I'M
portance, the members of the state com
miss ion had conference with ABOUT
q dozen representativ Of the Titan
Millers' association, on the matter OF
the proper labelling of flour. sold in
the state to show the correct weight
of the products
The state bureau had fixed Oct.
Is the limit Of time for the proper
stenciling Of the weight on flour
sacks. The flour mill people desired
an extension of this time limit, saying
that they had ordered from 50 600 to
wished to get rid of what they have on
hand, before the order goes into eff
feet. The state bureau decided to
grant them an extension to Jan. 1. for
the proper marking of the sacks.
The question of the shrinkage of
flour was one Of those discussed at the
meeting. the repres entauves Of the mill
leTs saying that they must make allow
ances for Shrinkage for periods of from
three to six months.
Meeting with the representatives Of
the millers were all the five members
of the state bureau, including J. 5.
al y 0l VI Os7lcir III ESlOElls i. a w IL
liamS of Salt Lake, secretary; George
Hone Of Benjamin, Herman Harms,
state chemist, and Willard Hansen, jT.,
state dairy and food commissioner.
Canning Factory Goods.
Following the meeting with the rep
Tesentatives of the milling interests.
the members of the state bureau went
into meeting, for the discussion of
ether questions. One of the chief sub
jeCts taken up was the alleged i'm
proper labelling Of certain products put
out by canning factories of the state,
1t had been reported by one of the
inspectors OF the bureau that several
canning factories Of the state have
been using the parings and other
waste portions Of tomatoes in the max
ing of catsUp, and that the product was
so labeled as to represent that the cat
sup was made from the whole tomato.
Samples had been brought in which
were obtained at the factories and
these were submitted to the bureau.
The bureau decided that, in the fu-
ture. where such portions of the tOma-
to are used I'm the making of Catsup.
the label must so specify. the board
basing its action on Section s of Reg
ulattOn- 26, included in Circular No. 21
revised. of the United States depart
ment Of agriculture. rules and regula-
tons for the enforcement Of the pure
food laws. This section reads as fol-
lows.
when an article is made up of ref
use materials fragments or trimmings,
the use Of the name of the substance
from WhicA they are derived, unless
accompanied by statement to that eff
feet shall be deemed a misbTanding.
Packages of such material may be la
beled pieces. stems, trimmings or
with some similar appellation."
The state bureau also received re-
ports from Commissioner Hansen and
Chemist Harms on their visit to the
convention Of national and state pure
food associations, recently held at Den
YER
Wormy Nuts at Provo.
/. D. Stewart, deputy state food in
speCtOr at Provo, condemned 2,44S
pounds of wOrmy nuts at Provo. prop
erty Of the u. G. VI. I. Officials of the
I. G. NJ. 7. believed the nuts to be
wOrmy and asked for an inspection
from the state department. The nuts
came from California and were found
TO be full of worms. They were con-
demned by DIR. Stewart and DESTROYED.
The state food and dairy commission
er has lost a good officer in DR.. Stew
art, as he has just sent in his resig-
nation. He viii return to the east to
resume his medical studies Owing
to the lack Of funds in the food COM
missioner's office, only the two depu-
ties viii be kept on and the office at
Provo viii go untitled.