The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-03-31
GETS BODY BLOW IN PRocLA.
NATION ISSUED BY sEcRE-
TARY WILSON.
LOCAL DECISION UPHELD
Contention Of Prof. Ladd and Decision
Of Judge Pollock is Sustained by
This Action Of the
Department.

A death blow has been dealt to the
manufacture and sale of bleached
flour in the United States by recent
proclamation issued by Secretary Will
son of the department Of agriculture
of the United States government.
Copies Of this proclamation were re7
ceived in Fargo yesterday.
Incidentally it fully upholds the
position of Prof E. F. Ladd and thi
state law which he secured in North
Dakota prohibiting the sale or manu-;
facture of this product in this state;
also the decision of Judge Pollock pp-
holding the N. D. state law.
The proclamation reads as follows:
United States Department Of Az
riculture, office of the secretary: To
manufacturers, vendors and consum-
ers of bleached flour:
Flour bleached by the Alsop process
contains added poisonous and added
deleterious ingredients which render
the flour injurious to health.
Flour bleached by the Alsop pro-
cess contains a substance known as
nitrites, which reduces, lowers and in
juriously affects the quality and the
strength of the flour.
Flour bleached by the Alsop proc
ess is mixed, colored and stained in a
manner whereby damage and inferior
ity are concealed
For these reasons flour bleached by
the Alsop process is adulterated with
in the meaning Of the food and drugs
act of June 30, 1906.
So decided Judge Rufus E. Foster
on March Is, 1910, in the case of the
United States Of America, libellant, v,
| 420 Sacks ct ais. of flour, ip the United
States district court for the east
ern district of Louisiana.
| There was also involved in this
case the issue Of misbranding, and the
| decree of the court was that the
| flour was misbranded. Your atten-
! ton is called particularly, however,
| to the adulteration Texture because Of
the misleading circular which is being
distributed by the Alsop Process Co.
| in an effort to induce manufacturers
of flour to continue to violate the
food and drugs act. An attorney Of
the Alsop Process Co., VINO also rep
resented several millers, and other at
torneys representing the millers, had
full, fair opportunity in the New
/! Orleans case to the contest the issue
of adulteration of flour bleached by
the Alsop Process and refused to do
so The so-called Iowa cases. were
dismissed by the government because
in the position Of this department as
by general in charge of the cases the
issue was not presented in those cases
in the full, complete and thorough
! going manner desired by the govern
ment.
1 desire to advise manufacturers.
vendors and consumers of bleached
flour that there has been no change
In the position Of this department aa
announced in food inspection decis-
ion No 1O0 and sustained by the fed
eral court, /. e., flour bleached by nj
trogen peroxid is an adulterated prod
uct under the food and drugs act of
June 80, 1906; that the character Of
the adulteration is such that no
! statement upon the label will bring
bleached -four within the law; and
that such flour cannot legally be made
or sold in the District Of Columbia or
in the territories, or be transported
or sold in interstate commerce.
James Wilson, secretary Of commerce.