White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-01
Guard Your
TabIe---WatCh
Your Label
PURE FOOD LAW HAS BEEN
AMENDED TO sTANDARDIZE
CANNED FOODS

Housewives will find new words,
printed in bold-face type, upon the la
bells of some canned peaches, peas,
pears, tomatoes, cherries, and apricots
packed this season and going on the
market now. These words are: "Be-
low u. S. Standard; Low Quality But
Not Illegal"
What do the words mean, and what
should the housewife do when she
finds them on a particular can?
The words mean that the national
authorize the Secretary of Agriculture
to prescribe and formulate quality
standards for all canned foods save
meat and meat products, and canned
milk The Secretary has already an
nounced official standards for peas,
peaches, pears, totatoes, cherries and
apricots, and these standards are now
in effect. The amendment, popularity
known as the Gamers bill, further
authorizes the Secretary to prescribe
designation to be printed upon the la
bells of canned foods that fall below the
standards.
The Gamers bill also gives the Sec
rotary authority to define a standard
fill for canned foods. Canned FOODS
shall be considered as of standard fill
if the entire contents occupy 80 per
cent or more of the volume of the
closed container. If buyer finds the
words, "Slack filled, on can, she will
know that the food in that container
does not occupy 80 per cent of the
volume.
"A housewife with limited amount
of money to spend will be greatly aided
in making her purchases of canned
foods within the coming months If she
will carefully read the labels on the
containers" says DR.. P. B. Dunbar,
"Nor need she fear that if she buys a
can of food labeled with the substan
tial designation that she is getting an
unlWho1eSOme product. -
eff the food actually were unwhole-
some it would of course be illegal
under the food and drug act and sub
ject to action under that measure.
She need not hesitate to purchase a
food branded, Below U. S. Standard;
low quality but not illegal, because
that food will carry the nutritive, If
not the esthetic, value of standard
canned goods"
The housewife need not look for the
wording indicating sustandard pro-
duct on any canned goods, save the
six mentioned, for some time to come.
The standards for canned peas, pears,
peaches, cherries, apricotS and tOma-
toes are all that have been formulated
and officially announced to date. The
Food and Drug administration will
work out standards for other canned
foods as rapidly as possible, however.
The rodeo put on by the Indians at
their corrals down on the river, Sum
day, was attended by a good crowd
who reported dandy good show. A
second rodeo is scheduled for next
Sunday at the same hour.
I. M. Council, real estate man of
Seattle, was business visitor in White
Bluffs Tuesday. Mr.. Council owns
considerable land across the river at
Wahluke and makes periodical visits
to the valley On this trip he was
accompanied by a gentleman from
Texas, who, since he sold out his
property down near the Mexican bor-
der, has travelled 5000 miles looking
for little bit of some paradise or
other that just suits him and where
he can end his days, and from what
he told the Spokesman, this spot will
probably be located somewhere in the
northwest