Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-19
new CAMPAIGN
FOR PURE FOOD
TLAUNCHED
u. S. Commissioner Hansen
Starts WhirlWind Fight for
Protection of Public
PROSECUTE PEOPLE WHO
SELL AT SHORT WEIGHT
Territorial Law Will Be En-
forced and Later Federal
Statute Trotted Out

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or the so-called frozen sweets" II
you are manufacturing or dealing In
foods or drugs, whether they be for
men or animals. or if you are shipping
foods or drugs into the territory, then
| you had better be, on the lookout.
A. w. Hansen. United States food
commissioner for the territory, will
"get you If you don't watch out :
A whirlwind pure food and drugs
campaign has been started by Mr..
Hansen's office, he announced today
and it will be along several new lines
of law enforcement.
Mr.. Hansen explained today that
one OF the FIRST things his office will
undertake will b6sthe enforcement Of
the territorial net-weight law. THIS
will be particularly with reference to
cattle and poultry foods, flour and
foodstuffs in general, There is fed
eral net-weight law which the local
cffice will enforce later.
The law requires, in brief, that all
foodstuffs in package form must bear
plain and conspicuous statement Of
the net contents in terms OF weight
and measure, on the label OF the pack
age delivered topthe consumer. This
means packages OF foodstuffs for ami
mails as well as men.
"As an illustration of the great harm
which is constantly arising in the mat
ter Of cattle and poultry foods" says
Mr.. Hansen, rolled barley is, by the
trade, supposed to be sold In bags OF
20 pounds each, Sut unscTupulous deal
efs very frequently short-weight by
selling bags of so or 81 pounds net
weight
Mr.. Hansen points out some very
interesting cases regarding ice cream.
Some of the large concerns, he says,
have been found to be selling a
product containing below Ia per cent
in butter fat contents. Other cases
have been found where dealers have
been selling a product which admit
tedly should be classed as frozen
sweets" with a fat content OF or :
per cent instead of IA per cent, but
have neglected to maintain appropri-
ate posters in their places of business
informing the public of that fact. They
have also neglected to inform their
patrons verbally that the product they
are buying is not genuine Ice cream
out a very inferior and cheaper prod
uct, says Mr.. Hansen.
Recently three such dealers were be.
fore the police magistrate.
During the past six months the OIL
fee has been investigating the matter
of interstate samples. An interstate
sample Is a sample which represents
a shipment of foods or drugs from the
mainland to these islands. These
samples are referred back to the u.
5. department Of agriculture for anal
ysis in the bureau of chemistry and
In cases of violation, under any OF
the federal pure foods and drugs laws.
the result is prosecution by the de-
partment of agriculture in the federal
courts
At the present time, as result OF
investigations of samples taken by the
office in these islands, legal proceed
ings are being instituted against two
large concerns manufacturing apple
cider, and also several drug concerns
on the mainland.
There is a territorial law requiring
that poi shall contain 80 per cent or
| more of solid matter. Lately there
have been several prosecutions in the
local courts of unscrupulous manufac-
turers of this product.
The matter of adding water to pol
appears to some persons not to be
very serious" says Mr.. Hansen" but
1t is, in addition to being violation
of the law, an action which should be
on the same footing with the addition
of water to milk, inasmuch as it lowers
the food value of the product sold 10
the consuming public"