The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-23
SELL ICE CREAM
THAT'S IMITATION
State Food Chemist Allen
Has Investigated
HIS REPORT STARTLING

Firms and Those in Raleigh Are
Set Down as Selling Ice ream With
Required Amount of Milk Fat.
Ice cream that is the real article is
described by the State Department of
Agriculture under the pure Q Q law
as requiring fourteen per cent OF
milk fat, fruit and nut ice cream II
per cent fat, and State Food Chemist
w. M. Allen, assisted by Mr..
Hill is making an examination OF ice
creams sold in the State, the report
that they gave out yesterday declaring
that many firms in Raleigh,
Greensboro, Salisbury and Charlotte
were not selling ice cream with IA
per cent fat, and that hence it should
be labeled so as to show it to be an
imitation ice cream.
The Requirements for Ice Cream.
h standards adopted by the Secre-
tary of Agriculture for the United
States, which are the rulings Of the
Stare Roard Of Agriculture under the
pure food law in regard to the manu-
facture or sale of ice cream are:
Il. Ice ream is a frozen product
made from cream and sugar, with or
without a natural flavoring, and con-
tains not less than fourteen (14) per
cent Of milk fat
20. Fruit ice cream is a frozen pro-
duct made from cream, sugar, and
sound, clean, mature fruits, and con-
tains not less than twelve (12) per
cent Of milk fat.
SO. Nut ice cream is a frozen product
made from ream sugar, and sound,
n~onrancid nuts, and contains not less
than twelve CID per cent Of milk fat.
THE sale of a product as ice cream
containing gelatine, eggs, gum traga-
canth or other vegetable gum, or the
sale Of a product as ice cream which
contains less than the required per
cent. of milk fat will not be contested,
provided the same is labeled and sold
as imitation ice cream, compound ice
cream, gelatine ice cream, egg ice
cream or gum ice cream Gas the case
may be-; or if a placard bearing the
following statement:
Limitation ice cream is served
here.
compound ice cream is served
here.
Egg ice cream is served here.
"Gelaine ice cream is served here,
Gum ice cream is served here Gas
the case may be), shall be posted in
g. conspicuous place in the room where
any and all persons may see the same
when purchasing cream; and Provided
further. that the statement on the
placard is printed in plain black let
IC1S, d11o y lC0o l1iclIl OI1C ~ IA
size, on a white background"
To Enforce the Rules.
State Food Chemist Allen says that
as to the present report, made from
samples collected from the places in
Dictated, no action will be taken, but
that if there is a violation of the law
hereafter that there will be an en-
forcment of the penalty.
What the Examinations Showed.
The results of the examinations Just
conducted show that outside Of Raj
eigh in the cities named there is no
firm selling what the State Board Of
Agriculture says is ice cream and that
in Raleigh there are but three firms
that pass the test required. The re-
suits given out by State Food Chem
list Allen and which he will publish in
the bulletin Of the State Board Of
Agriculture, are in per cent. and frac-
tons as follows:
w. F>urman Belts, Raleigh, N. c.
Ice cream, vanilla, milk fat 400 per
cent; ice cream, strawberry, milk fat
5.68 per cent.
N. C.-Ice cream, vanilla, milk fat
1890 per cent.
Masonic Temple Pharmacy, Raj
eigh, N. C.-Ice cream, sherry, milk
fat 17.49 per cent.
A. Dughi, Raleigh, N. C.-Ice cream,
Van4la, milk lat 1913 per cent, Ice
cream, peach, milk fat $40 per cent.
King-Crowell Drug Co., Raleigh, N.
C.-Ice ream sherry, milk fat 21.36
per cent; ice cream, vanilla, milk fat
22.51 per cent.
California Fruit Store, Raleigh, N.
C.-Ice ream strawberry, milk fat
1890 per cent; ice cream, tutti frutti,
milk fat 1853 per cent; ice cream,
vanilla, milk fat 2O.72 per cent.
Fl. T. Hicks Co., Raleigh. N. c.
Ice cream, vanilla, milk fat 1857 per
cent; ice cream, F'rappe milk fat 4.81
per cent.
Main Street Pharmacy. Durbar NJ
Tee cream. sherry, milk fat 2.36