The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-12-31
5By tie United States Depart,
ment Of Agriculture in Most
Jealous Manner.
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foods and drugs offered for inter-
= state shipment and for import. a
i physician examination was made Of
a samples from rs, 468 shipf4 ents OF
4 8ared for import. OF these foreign
shipments, $3.50 were found to vio-
late the law in some respects and.
were either excluded from the coun-.
Try or admitted only after the Irnpor-
N tiers had relabe1ed them to comply
with the law. OF the samples OIL
domestic products analysed 3,535,
either because OF the nature Of the
product OF because the label On III
did not tell the truth, were found
\ to be IN violation Of the federal law.
IN IN 1854 cases the department. rec
commended to the department OF JUS
tice that criminal prosecution be in-
N st1tuted against the manufacturers or
\ that the goods be seized. IN many
cases where there was no evidence
{ OF intention to defraud, and where
N there was merely some easily rene
died Jaw in the wording of Q label,
the shippers. after being warned in
hearings, voluntarily took steps
I which made their products fully com
X ply with the requirements. IN all, n
there were held S,715 such hearing \
many of which resulted in the pros
ecutions Indicated and the gathering
Of evidence for a large number OF adj
dttionaI cases, which will be forward
ed to the department Of Justice.
The bureau OF chemistry, IN its an
4 nual report, also calls attention to
the fact that through the system OF
n Service and Regulatory Announce
ments now In use, manufacturers are
given due notice of the requirements
and thus are enabled voluntarily to
make their products conform to the
law. In this way the government
achieves Its purpose, frequently with
out entering into needless. and very
expensive litigation.
IN the regulatory work. special en-
v phasis has been given to the control
of drug products and foods liable to
spol1age and pollution. These fire.
4 uuently constitute a serious menace
n to health. The food inspectors have
been instructed to be particularly
WatchfuI for interstate shipments OIL
bad eggs, milk, oysters and spoiled
\ canned goods, and false and rraudu-
lently labeled medicines and spurious
\ synthetic drugs.
CURLING Fraudulent Medicines.
Attempts to counterfeit or ad utter
4 ate imported drugs have been more
common since the recent high price
y and scarcity Of many Of these prod 1
ucts encouraged their Intention. 1t
is interesting to note that Of the l.
Il O36 cases Terminated IN the courts
during the year, 1913 were brought
on account Of the false and fraudu-
lent labelling of medicines. In all Of
these medical cases, save five, the
courts found for the government, and
this, 1t is believed, has exercised an
Important deterrent effect on the
vendors of nostrums Slipped from
one state to another.
The work of controlling the fraud.
u1ent labels of medicines and mineral
waters has been greatly strengthen
ed by the esta b1ishment of a separ-
ate Office to deal with these matters
N At the request OF the secretary Of ag-
Ttculture an officer Of the United
State Public Health Service has been
detailed to take charge OF this work |
Moreover. through the close cooper
alton established with the foods and
drugs officials Of many 81 the
4 states, the department was able to
direct the attention of the local au-
thorittes to the presence OF spuri-
Gus drugs in their states and as a \
result much OF these fraudulent goods
in the hands Of local dealers and be>
yond the reach of the federal author
titles we're destroyed by state and mus
nfcipal officers who, In many cases,
prosecuted those responsible for thesE
local traffic
MI s{ MILK Eggs and ySIecS, .3tt,
The cooperation in the sanitary
" control Of the milk supply Of small 4
cities described in the report for last
year has been extended in Illinois,
Iowa, Missouri Kansas, Nebraska.
and in New England. It is proposed
to repeat this work year after year,
extending teach year to new terri-
Ss tory. IN some localities bad condi-
ions were found due in the main to#
S ling. Perhaps the best5results OF this
work has been that It Stimulated.
some Of the local authorities to take
mp similar work independently So
that definite permanent improvement
OF the milk supply Of a number Of
cities has@resuIted. The cooperative
work on the control Of the shipment
of decomposed eggs described in the
i@Teport OF last year has been extended
to cover much Of the territory Ia
which shipments originate so that
eggs are now candled before ship
ment far more than formerly and the
spoiled eggs destroyed or fed to poul-
ryband stock. AT the same time IN
formation given to local officials has
helped them to curb local traffic taI
eggs rejected In Gambling.
III The bureau Of chemistry. after
n king cooperative sanitary surveys
Of oyster beds, Issued N ~ rninss
I against the interstate shipment 81
oysters from polluted and doubtful
beds and, where these warnings We're
4 notregarded undertook prosecutions.
Az a result, interstate shipment from
y such territory was stopped.
Other Authorizations,
The campaign against the sweat
ing OF immature oranges ana inma-
tureS grapefruit SO as to give the I'M
mature fruit the color Of ripe fruit
has been successful, largely because
ofsthe active help OF the greater part
of the citrus fruit producers. Con-
DaTatiyely few sweated. Immature
oranges were offered during the last
year and 1t is believed the better
quail ty# Of fruit resulted IN a steadiera