The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-11
COOPERATION
OF OFFICIALS
IS EFFECTIVE.
In a Splendid Enforcement of
the Federal Food and Drugs
Act, Report Shows.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE
work accomplished by the co-opera-
tive efforts Of the officials charged
with the enforcement Of the federal
food and drugs act and the officials
who enforce state laws regulating
commerce in similar products is OUT
lined In the annual report of the chief
of the bureau Of chemistry. United
States Department of Agriculture.
which has just been published. The
report states that such cooperation
has been more effective than ever
before owing to the manner in which
tbs Office OF state cooperative food
and drug control has conducted its
work. This Office was established in
1911 for the purpose of making food
and drug laws more effective by fa-l
cilltating the systematic exchange Of
information regarding law violations
and meth DDS of detecting them be-
tween federal and state oificials and
among officials In the various states.
In the absence Of me=quick method
of distributing such information it
might be possible for manufactur-
er TO dispose of his aduIterated prod
ucts in other states for some time at
ter detection.
Improves Food supply.
The cooperative work, however,
has accomplished much more than
the exchange Of information. FEEDER
III and state officials have united their
efforts in improving the food supply
in definite localities and for#tlle cor
rection Of specific abuses in the pro
duction and sale of particular prod
ucts. For instance, the federal and
state officials cooperate in the SAINT.
tary control OF the milk supply Of
small cities near slate boundaries in
the states of Illinois, Iowa Missouri.
Kansas, Nebraska and in New Eng
land These cities received part of
their milk supply from the state in \
which they are located and part from
nelghborinE states. The part of the
supply that came from other states
could best be handled under the fed-f
eral law, for that law applies to all HI
foods and drugs shipped into inter-4I
state commerce.; that is, shipped from
one state to another. Thus all par
ties. responsible for the shipment OIL
milk could be reached
they resided in the state5l
where the milk was sold or not /
Without the cooperation Of the fed
eral officials it would be possible for
the state officials to reach effectively
the Offenders residing in other states.
1T IS proposed 70 repeat this work
year after year, the report states.
'eNtending il each year to new ter-
Titory Similar cooperative work
has been done on the control Of the
shipment Of decomposed eggs So ef-
fectively that this traffic has been
broken mp.
Indictments Returned.
Food and drug oiIictals found that,
owing to high prices prevailing for
certain synthetic drugs used exten-
.siYcly by physicians in the treatment
OF various diseases, there We're being
put OIL the market cheap limitations
which We're soldunder the ananlc and
label ot the genuine medicines but
Mhlchgon examination were found to
have little or none of the therapeutic
effects of the genuine article. Though
a number of shipments We're seized,
and 2 number of#indivIduals success
fully prosecuted under the federal
food and drugs act, and indictments
returned under the postal laws. the
traffic could not be wholly suppressed
by federal action, nor all the OFFEND
ers reached. The situation was laid
before the state and municipal Of
ficials who Instituted many prose
cutions and seizures, with the result
that the Joint action of the federal.
Iup this fraudulent traffic.
joint Action Good
AS the result OF Joint action be
tween the federal and state officials,
or independent action based upon the
lscxchange of Information regarding
| law violations. much work was done
l.during the year to clear the channels
f.of commerce from decomposed can
E5ned goods. decomposed fish and poul-
4 try. polluted or watered oysters,
! Watered scallcps, liquors containing
wood alcohol misbranded nostrums,
/ adulterated oats. mfsbranded cotton
seed meal. nlsbranded stock feeds,
and a large number Of other adulter-
lated or nlisbranded foods and drugs.
The work of the office Of state Co
.operative food and drug control has
+ brought about greater uniformity in
1.-THE administration OF the federal
and of the various state food and
ldNrg laws. IN the opinion Of the food
Iand drug officials, uniform and Cos
Operative action makes it easier for
L tho honest producers and distributors
to comply with all the provisions or
the different laws relating to their
products, and makes it harder for
dishonest manufacturers. who pur-
Iposely try to evade the laws, to es-
4 cape detection.
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