The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-04-30
NEW FOOD
LAWS DRASTIC
Designed to Prevent Fraud Against
Consumers-Ail Adulterations Hit
-, Egg Dealers Licensed
PUT FLOUR IN THE SAUSAGE
Certain Makers Substituting Flour for
Meat in Sausage and Selling
Products for Less Money

DES MONIES, April 24-The thirty.
eighth general assembly which has
adjourned sine die, enacted num-
ber of food laws which will serve to
check dishonest practices on the part
of crooked dealers and help to pro-
tect the honest man in the food busi-
ness.| Unusually high prices for foods
apparently have inspired or tempted
Iunprincipled men to resort to selling
food substitutes in order to cut the
price and make big profit.
The assembly enacted food stand
ard law, patterned after the federal
food standard law, giving the state
food and dairy commissioner authority
to fix food standards which dealers
must meet on certain products. This
standard food law was fathered by
Senator Evans, of Butler county, in
the senate and Representative Griffin
LOT Woodbury. county in the house.
Put Flour in Sausage
State Commissioner Barney states
that under this law the first foods to
be standardized will be bread, saus-
age, molasses and evaporated milk.
There will not only be a standardized
loaf of bread determined upon, but
the percentage of substitutes for flour
will be fixed. Another product which
affords plenty of opportunity for adul-
Iteration, the state food department
reports, is sausage. Commissioner
Barney'k inspectosr. in recent months,
have discovered that certain sausage
makers were substituting considerable
flour for meat in their sausage and
selling the product just little under
the price necessary for first class
sausage Molasses has also been adul-
|terated by many uns nscrupulous persons
since it's price has been so high 9th
Ter products haves also been "doped"
with substitutes for real food. This
new law will enable the dairy and food
commissioner to get at these offend
erS.
Renovated butter making will be
more thoroughly regulated than ever
before under bill of which Senator
Thompson of Burlington is the author.
This requires the labelling of all pack
lages Of, renovated. butter, with the.,
words renovated butters, and the
placing 'of. a placard bearing these
words on all tubs of the product dis /,
played for sale. This bill becomes eff
fective July 4th. sy s#ys.it Gpf,, snj
Sets Dairy Products standardG 10
The dairy act by Senator Van Abs
stine and. Representative tBeeHn2mr
changes the definition of dairy pIodai
uctsi and sets out more clearly the
standards for such products. Thett
standard for milk is placed at 8 per
cent fat and liz per cent solids. Imi-
tation dairy products are defined and
their sale regulated. The new law
makes provision for the registration
of brands for marketing dairy con-
tainers which will promote their more
rapid movement and prohibits their
misuse 1t prohibits the fraudulent
use of dairy terms in advertising oleo-
margarine. The dairy act is now in
full force and effect, having taken ef-
feet on publication, April nth. u.
The Brakeman bill, which requires
that egg dealers take out licenses on
and after May 23d, was legally publ
|lished wednesday, April 23d, so that
its provisions must therefore be COM
Piled with in thirty days after publica-t
|tion, according to the wording of the
law, which falls on May 23dl Y
Faults in the, weight and measures.
law are corrected in a bill which was
fathered in, the senate by Senator Ev.
ans, and in the house by Representa-.
tive Moore. Under one amendment as,
passed, the buyer is made responsible
for, the scales over, which he buys
grain and other farm produce. Other
amendments make it misdemeanor
to settle for labor based on false
weight or measure where the price OF
such labor is based on the amount
produced This law applies to the
mining of coal as we'll as to food prod.
ucts. ..
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
Barney is printing revised editions or
the various laws enforced by his de-
partment, and copies will be available
within few weeks.