The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-05-19
To Enforce tbs Cold Storage Law.

o ENFORCE tns Colo Storage law.
Pure milk pure cream. pure
butter, pure cheese and pure cold
storage products will be insured
20 the people OF Indiana here
after II the stringent rules adopted by
the state board OF health at meet
ing at the statehouse are enforced 10
the letter. as the board contemplates
they shall be. The board adopted
three rules. Nos. l6. II and is. in the
boards list. which bear on the enforce
ment OF the cold storage law passed
by the last legislature.
One OF the most important acts OF
the board was the defining of cold
storage or refrigerating warehouse. TO
which the terms OF the new cold
storage law shall apply. By the ruling
OF the board the law will apply TO all
hotels. restaurants and other places OF
business employing refrigerating ma
chinery or ice for the purpose OF re-
frigeration.
In section S OF the cold storage law
IL is provided that The state board OF
health shall adopt such rules as may
be necessary 10 enforce this act"
Rule No. l6. adopted by the board
in accordance with this provision OF
the act. is as follows:
Paragraph /. For the purpose OF the
enforcement OF this act. II is held that
cold storage refrigerating ware
house is an establishment employing
refrigerating machinery or ice for the
purpose OF refrigeration in which
goods are stored for 80 days or more
at q temperature OF 40 degrees Fahren-
heit or below. The wards FOR tenn
porary protection only" as used in
section l of the act shall be construed
to mean the holding of food products
for not more than thirty days.
Paragraph 2 Goods placed in cold
storage or refrigerating warehouses
which maintain rooms for temporary
protection only. as defined in para
graph one, shall not be required to be
marked. stamped or tagged Such
storage rooms shall keep a full and
complete record OF the entry and with
drawal of all food products stored
therein for temporary protection only
Paragraph g Hotels. restaurants
and all other places OF business en-
ploying refrigerating machinery or ice
for the purpose Of refrigeration,
whether for public or for private use.
are hereby classified as cold storage
or refrigerating warehouses, except in
such instances where the products
stored therein are held for less than
thirty days.
Paragraph A. Goods held at low tenn
perature during the process OF manu-
facture, as is the case with lager beer
and meat products being cured IN
pickle or dry salt. shall not be con-
sidered to be in storage as defined in
this act and need not be stamped.
Paragraph 5. AL marking. stamping
or tagging shall be plainly legible and
shall show the day, month and year
Of the date Of entrance and removal.
in letters and figures not less than
thIee-eighths Of an inch in height and
of a style known as 36-point Gothic
No. s. The letters or figures shall be
in black or purple ink, and If the
goods are tagged the tag shall be Sc
curely fastened on the package by
tacks, nails, strings or glue in such
fashion that 1t cannot be detached.
Paragraph 6. All goods on hand at
the end OF nine months, as described
in section OF the act. shall be re-
ported TO the state board of health
and inspected and passed as suitable
for food in accordance with the pro-
visions of the pure food law. chapter
104, acts 1907. and the sanitary food
law. chapter 1913. acts 1909. before be
ing withdrawn. Such inspection shall
be made by the inspectors of the state
board OF health or by other persons
designated by the state food and drug
commissioner 70 make such inspec-
ton