The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-03-23
STATE PURE FOOD
OFFICER SPEAKER
Prof. Dinsmore Told Chamber of
Commerce Lunchers Interesting
Fact Concerning Foood
Purity Facts

pure foods and drugs, and correct
| weights and measures, rather than
upon the actual work of his de-
partment, Prof. s. C. Dinsmore
yesterday entertained lunchers at
the regular weekly Chamber of
Commerce event following a splen-
did meal served by members of the
Neighbors of Woodcraft. A por-
tion of Prof. Dinsmore's interest
ing talk follows:
Every food law on the statute
books of Nevada was enacted for
the specific purpose of protecting
the consuming public from fraud.
For that reason all adulteration
is prohibited. Not only are injur-
ious substances banned, but likewise
other adulterants, harmless in them
selves, but certain to diminish the
food value of the product in which
they are used. There is no harm
in water; but when water is
worked into butter in excess of the
normal quantity and for the purpose
of increasing the weight of the
product it constitutes a fraud on
the public and the vendor who re-
sorts to the practice is guilty of
an offense under the law. The same
is true when cheap foreign sub
stances are added to sausage or
any other product for the purpose
of increasing the profits of the
manufacturer or retailer. While
the added product does not harm
the consumer it does compel him
to pay for something that does
not actually belong to the article
purchased and which materially re-
duces the original cost of the but
ter, sausage or other articles which
have been adulterated. The laws
which punish such practices are
just and right. 1t is not enough
to keep dangerous adulterants out
of the food of the people. When
a housekeeper visits any business
house in which food products or
other articles of domestic utility
are sold, she has a legal and moral
right to the exact article she be-
lieves herself to be purchasing.
To adulterate food products even
in the most harmless manner is to
cheat the purchaser, and it is the
duty of the state to punish the
dishonest dealer even though the
chief harm he does be confined to
the pocketbooks of his patrons.
Briefly stated the various state
laws as well as the federal laws
propose that the food which we
buy shall be:
1. What it proposes to be in
kind and amount.
2. That it shall be free from
deleterious or unwholessome ad-
ditions.
8. That it shall possess full nu-
tritive value.
Whenever a representative of the
department visits town in the course
of his field work, he is instructed
to first obtain samples of market
milk and submit them to the la
boratory without delay. He then
calls upon the retail grocery stores
and carefully inspects the stock. If
a new product is encountered or
if there is a suspicion in his mind
that anything which he sees upon
the shelf is not up to standard,
samples are taken, sealed with the
Official seal of the department and
sent to the laboratory for examin-
alton and analysis.
The production of clean whole
some milk is subject that during
the past few years has received
more attention than any other food
product. Any producer or dealer
who is supplying milk to families
and upotr which the very life of
infants and small children depends
is a criminal of the first class if
he deliberately adds water or other
adulterants to his product whereby
the food value is lowered.
The amount of milk used in the
United States is somewhere between
one-half pint and one-third quart
per person per day. When the food
value of milk is taken into consider
alton together with it's relatively
low cost, it is a self evident fact
that an insufficient amount of milk
is being consumed by the American
people. The amount stated should
be at least three times what it is.
In my opinion if this amount was
used, people would find themselves
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