Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-24
RULES FOR COLD STORAGE
APPROVED At GATHERING
Owners of Rcfrigcratiug Plants and
Hotel and Restaurant Men
Meet in Capitol.
FEW REGULATIONS CHANGED
Twcnty-Onc Sections Drawn Up by
Commissioner Purcell to Put New
Law Into Effect Allowed to Stand
as Originally Prepared.

EGGS Gold Storacc," and Chicken
t 1913 S w6,aE Viii be on the menu
patrons OF hotels and restaurants in
klcnn3nd and throughout the state
from this time OH. The words. cold
have been hacked away in refriscrat-
,nS plants FOR thirty days or longer
anS new cold storage law requires this
ana itS provisions Will be riSidly en-
forced by officers OF the State DAIRY
and Food Division.
conservatives OF the big packins
houses doing business IN Virginia. and
NOEL and restaurant men from Rich
met Yesterday in the COURTROOM OF the
Corporation Commission in the CAPITOL
oulldinS and put the STAMP OF their
Der by the General Assembly in
special session.
Rulcs Allowed of n Stand.
There are twenty-one sections 10
the code Of rules and regulations
drawn IN by the Dairy and Food nivi-
sion. under the direction OF Commits
Law into operation. Each OF these see
lions was read before those present;
AT The meeting Yesterday and discus scd
in detail With the exception of a
few minor changes. the sections We're
allowed 10 stand as originally prepared.
The requirement for notations on the
menu cards WAS the only one which
ELECTED protest yesterday, but after a
discussion OF the situation. restaurant
favor o: the new section. seeming con-
yinced that il would work out salts
taCtorily.
Commissioner Purcell said Yesterday
that he did not think the new require
ment would sreatly increase the de-
mand for fresh foodstunS which. had
shorter period than thirty DAYS He
declared that numbers of patrons
would DC unable to tell the difference
90 i,1a Il
would he unwilling for that reason to
pay the additional charge for strictly
fresh foods
To Add New Inspectors.
In addition 10 the sian OF food in
spectors maintained by the department,
Will be added. 1t is probable that
there will be three OF these investiga
tors who VII confine their operations
That the provisions of the law are ad-
here's 10 rigidly.
outstanding provisions in the now
set OF regulations are:
J. An accurate record shall be kent
OF All the receipts and Withdrawals
Q; articles of food by each cold storage
P h;,is ana the State Dairy and Food
records at any time
Individuals or companies operat-
ing storage plants shall make quarter
~ reports 10 the Dairy ana Food Com
missioner setting forth i'm detaiI tho
quantity Of food held in the warehouse
''' NIX iH' ptI4Di covered 'hE the
port. y summary OF these reDoris vii
he prepared by the division and this
resume VIII be open to the public a
all times.
Right Ia Condemn Food.
.. Articles of food considered unSt
Tor human consumption Will be seized
oE inspectors of the division for con
Temnation in the name o. the State OF
Virginia.
4. II shall be unlawful to return IN
cold storage warehouse any article
OF 1000 which has been released from
storage and placed on the market for
consumers except for temporary pre-
.. No article of food shall be kent
IN storage for longer than ten months
eeNcept with the written permission OF
Inc commissioner OF the Dairy and
g. When articles which have been
heId in cold storage are removed from
the coniai1ar in which they we 90
stored and divided into smaller lots.
the cartons and packages are to be
marked plainly with the words cold
Storage"