Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-03-24
MISBRANDING FOOD
FAST DISAPPEARING.


btfber added deleterious ongrpd-
tents than ever before. Food is
sometimes accidentally contain
mated during the process Of pro-
duction, transportation, or manu-
facture by harmful bacteria or by
minute quantities of arsenic, zinc,
or lead from utensils used in man
ufacture, but such accidental adul-
iteration is becoming less frequent
each year as manufacturers inn
prove their process and apply eff
fectively the science of sanitation.
The forms of adulteration most
frequently found today, according
to w. G. Campbell, chief of the
Bureau of Chemistry, affect the
pocket-book more often than the
health. The two most common
forms of adulteration are the sub
stitution of cheaper insa tedients
for higher priced ones, the cheap
ened product being sold under the
name and usually at the price Of
the more expensive product,
and the use of partly decomposed
food materials which may, or may
not, be injurious to health, but
which always offend a sense of de-
cency besides being prohibited
specifically by the terms Of the
Federal Food and Drug Act.
Some recent cases based on the
charge Of the use of decomposed
materials as food include canned
fish, salt herring, prunes, frozen
egg yolk, apples, evaporated milk,
shell eggs, tomato catsup, tomato
pure, organes, rasins, raspberries,
salad dressing, sardines, and
canned salmon. Too much water
the cheapest of all adulterants,
has been found recently in sauer
kraut, canned tomatoes, butter,
flour, oysters, canned clans and
canned shrimp, and made the basis
of prosecutions or seizures.
perhaps one of the most per-
sistent form of aduIteration with
which we DEAL" says Mr.. Camp
bell, sis the sale of cheaper vege-
table oils as olive oil. Cottonseed
oil, corn oil, and peanut oil are
frequently sold as olive oil A
large number Of seizures and pro-
seutions have been made because
of this violation. Cottonseed,
corn and peanut oils are all whole
some oils, are equal in food value
to olive oil, and are in every
way worthy of a wide market on
their own merits and under their
own names, but their sale as olive
oil at a higher price than they
would otherwise command is a
fraud upon consumers and vio-
Iation of the terms of the food
and drug act"
The most common form of mis-
branding encountered is the over
statement on the labels Of tt e
quantity Of food in package form.
The food and drug act requires
that all foods in package form
coming within its juridiction bear
plain and conspicuous statet
ment f the quantity of contents.
There is tendency on the part of
some manufacturers to state for
instance that a package contains a
pound when in fact it contains
only is ounces or less. Many cases
under the food and drug act are
based on the charge of short
weight or short volume.
Other forms Of violation Of the
food and drugs act upon which
prosecution or seizures have been
based recently, include the fol
lowing: apricot pulp adulterated
because it was decomposed and
contained foreign material such as
leaves, grass and some dirt; inn
mature and artifeially colored
grape fruit; jellies made Of a
mixture of glucose, pectln and
phosphoric acid artificlally eolore6
an containing little or no fruit
beans labeled as red kidney beans
but which were in fact long Gran.
berry beans; potatoes incorrectly
branded as to grade; canned toma
toes containing added PURGE, pull
or Juice from the skins and cores
gtockfeeds deficient in portein ant
containing excessive crude fCer
mineral unfit to drink on account
Of impurities due to containing
ton; chocolate coating containing
excessive cocoa shells and added
starch; and vinegar from evap
GRATED apple products labeled a
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