The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-08-24
EXPE ERTS
ON FOOD
Plan Better Enforcement
of Pure Food Reg.
ulations.

Denver. Colo, Aug. 24.-Food ex.
perts from every section of the com-
try, including Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson, Chief Chemist Wiley and rep
resentatiyes of the United States dairy
commission and the bureau of animal
industry were present at the opening
today of the 18th annual convention
Of the Association of State and Nation
al Food and Dairy departments. Be
fore the convention adjouruS next
Friday It is expected a definite plan
for more drastic enforcement of pure
food regulations throughout the coun-
try Will have been drafted.
In his annual address President ].
@. Emery took hard rap at benZoate
Of soda as a food preservatiye and
vigorously opposed the finding of the
referee board appointed during Presi-
dent RooseVelt's administration that
the preseryative was not harmful. He
pointed to Secretary Wilson as hay-
ing recommended TO the President
that the finding of the board be not
re-investigated although a committee
OF the association appealed for a re-
consideration OF the subject.
That benZoate is harmful in what
ever form 1t is used. whether in soda
water or in pickles was the emphatlcal
conclusion of the speaker.
Recommending a breaking away
from the federal pure food laws as
not meeting the necessities OF the in
dividual states. MT. Emery urged a
wide breach between the state commits
sloners and Secre5lry Wilson. He
favored The submission to each state
legislature the model" pure food law
as proposed by Dr.. f. F. Ladd, state
food commissioner OF North Dakota.
No sooner had these views been
expressed than a dozen other speak
ers contended that a breaking away
from the federal laws would result in
chaotic multiplicity of state laws all
out OF harmony with one another.
THE housewife would be unable 10 de-
teTmino from the variety OF labels just
what she was buying declared one
speaker.
II was determined that the whole
subject should be thresbed out and
reported on by special committee.
On this committee are Dr. Ladd, Dr..
NJ. A. Scovell, Lexington, Ky; James
Foust OF Harrisburg. Pa, Dr.. A. ID.
Blgelow, bureau of chemistry, Wash
lngton, d. C: A. c. Bird. Lansing.
Mich: y. a. Pearson. Albauy. n Y,
and r. ". Allen. Lexington. Ky.
More than 100 addresses are to be
made before the convention closes. DR.,
Wiley is TO discuss "Bleached Flour
and other subjects ranging from What
is whisky" TO How TO Keep oysters
Tpra-a~NaffUaE -
On Thursday the members of the
Remsen referee board are TO speak
followed by an answer TO their con-
tcntions by state food chemists. who
are opposed 10 bonzoate,
Atlanta, Ca. and Rochester. y. Y.
arc In the field for the next conyen-
| tlon.
A bitter tit over the merits of the
Remsen referee board. appointed at
the instance OF President Roosevelt Ia
! Investigate the use OF ben2oate OF soda
as a food preservatiye, took place be
tween Secretary OF Agriculture James
| Wilson and ]. Q. Emery OF Madison
| Wis. before the annual convention ol
the Association OF state and National
| Food and Dairy departments today
, As president OF the association. MI
| Emery had attacked the finding ol
, the Remsen board that benzoatc had
! been found 10 be not harmful and
/ polnfcd TO Mr. Wilson rs having IN
( Guenced the President 10 block re-
Investigation OF the subject, u want
TO SAY that the Rcmscn board was
! composeG OF Dr. ira Rcmscn OF Balti
/ moro and four other of the foremost
| chemists I'm the world" declared Mr.
! Wilson. And when the President au
! thorlzed me 20 seiect them. ! rccog
| nlzed them as the best authority on