Monthly review of the Dairy and Food Division : issued monthly . (58) tarn ESTABLISHED APRIL 1, 1903. MONTHLY BULLETIN OF THE DAIRY and FOOD DIVISION OF THE PMSYLYAM DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. JAMES Foust, Dairy and Food Commissioner. VOL. 7, Nos. 3 and 4. APRIL and MAY, 1909. Published by Direction of Hon. N. B. Cbitchfield, Secretary of Agri lculture. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF-W. H. SCHWARTZ. EntCred JUnC 23 1008;*t Harris, Pa., as SeCo„a-ClaSS Matter, UnderAct of Congress June G, 1900. HARRISBURG, PA.: HARRISBURG PUBLISHING CO., STATE PRINTER1909. P-Ml-hed For Gratuitous Distrioution-Euitiou Limited
Monthly review of the Dairy and Food Division : issued monthly . (58) tarn ESTABLISHED APRIL 1, 1903. MONTHLY BULLETIN OF THE DAIRY and FOOD DIVISION OF THE PMSYLYAM DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. JAMES Foust, Dairy and Food Commissioner. VOL. 7, Nos. 3 and 4. APRIL and MAY, 1909. Published by Direction of Hon. N. B. Cbitchfield, Secretary of Agri lculture. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF-W. H. SCHWARTZ. EntCred JUnC 23 1008;*t Harris, Pa., as SeCo„a-ClaSS Matter, UnderAct of Congress June G, 1900. HARRISBURG, PA.: HARRISBURG PUBLISHING CO., STATE PRINTER1909. P-Ml-hed For Gratuitous Distrioution-Euitiou Limited to 25,000 THE NEW PURE FOOD LAW. The pure food act passed at the recent session of the Legislatureand signed by Governor Stuart May 13th, will be found in full inanother part of this number of the Bulletin. Those readers who areinterested in the new measure—and manufacturers, venders andconsumers ought to be—are advised to study its various provisionscarefully at their leisure. In many respects it is one of the mostimportant measures of the sort ever enacted in this State and we donot just now recall any food law that goes to such lengths in theeffort to protect the consumer from doubtful preservatives or adul-terants. While the general lines of the federal food law are fol-lowed the new law prohibits the use of nitrous acid, compounds ofcopper and various other chemicals, all of which are specificallybanned by name. The use of benzoate of soda, in quantity not toexceed one-tenth of one per centum, in certain foods in which it hasheretofore been generally used, and sulphur dioxide in dried
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