The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-09-17
UTAH CATSUP AND
TOMATOES.

The members OF the State Pure
Food Bureau met in Salt Lake yes
terday and issued warning to the
canning factories of Utah. in which
catsup is made. The statement Civ
en- out is as follows:
Several of the canning factories
have been making catsup of the re-
fuse and labelling Ii "matchleSS pure
food catsup" or something else equal
ly ridiculous. the state pure food au
thorities say. and the practice has got
TO stop. Hereafter when an article
is made of refuse. such as fragments
and trimmings. the use of the name
of the article from which they arc
derived. unless accompanied by state
ment to that effect. will be deemed
misbranding, and the state food COM
missioner this morning will begin
sending notices 10 that effect to all
the canning factories of the state. Cat
sup made from refuse must be labeled
pieces" stems" or trimmings" or
given a similar appellation
Most OF the canning factories have
ordered their labels. and the ruling of
the bureau means that they must get
other labels or else put out no cat
sup from refuse under penalty of
prosecution for mIsbrandinG In the
neighborhood OF 100 900 labels will go
TO make a big bonfire. il is estimated.
The bureau also regards September
as a bad fly month and adopted a
ruling requiring wholesale meat deal
ers TO keep meat well covered and
protected from dust as we'll as flies
while delivering 1t to the retailer
throughout the rest of the month.
Some OF the wholesalers have become
careless about screening meat while
delivering il to the market il is said
The millers Of the state have so
many labeled sacks on hand that they
asked the bureau 10 extend the time
for requiring the correct labelling Of
products TO January l. and as the re-
quest appeared TO have merit 1t was
granted. After that date, though, the
mIllers will have TO label every sack
with the correct weight of the con-
tents or suffer prosecution for mis-
branding
The state board is somewhat severe
on the Gamers of the state The to-
mato factories are nearly all located
near Ogden and this attack may have
serious effect on this industry SO
important to ogden. The condemna-
tion should have been accompanied
by an explanation. The local cat5up
makers may be guilty Of allowing
stems, cuttings and trimmings OF TO-
matoes TO become part OF their fin
ishcd product but whatever the prac-
ticc Is there is every reason to be-
lieye the purcst. best catsup manufac.
lured in the United States is placed on
the market By the Ogden factories.
There is nothing delctcrious in the
catsup, not even coloring matter being
used AZ II Is not necessary to ar
tlficially supply color TO the beautiful
red tomatoes grown in this Vicinity.
Armour & Co. and other large east
ern houses buy tomato pulp from the
Ogden factories, not by the case, but
by the carload Only day or two
ago ten thousand one-gallon cans of
this tomato pulp were ordered by one
eastern house. This pulp is necessary
to give tone TO the catsup bottled in
eastern factories and is used to flavor
pork and beans and other canned
goods requiring tomatoes.
The Utah state board must not be
so straIght-laced during Its investiga-
tions as tolean backward,to TO the injury
of Utah products and to the advantage
OF foreign-made goods OF less merit.
The condemnation should be so sweep
ing as to embrace the catsups and to-
matoes OF all brands. local and foreign.
which fail to conform to the letter
of the pure food law