West The Food and Drugs Act of 19 Feb. 1907 is similar to the Federal law in providing against fraudulent and deleterious adulteration, but it has no provisions against misbranding. External preservatives (like liquid smoke) are not forbidden. False or mis leading statements on a package or its label de termine the food to be adulterated. The sale of unwholesome food is a felony.
A dairy and food commis sioner publishes the dairy and food laws, and the decisions of the courts relating thereto. They were first enacted in 1898, and were amended and added to in 1907 and 1909. The law of 1909, taking effect 1 Jan. 1910, and pre scribing legal definitions and standards for a large number of food products, is one of the most important food laws ever enacted by a State legislature. Coatings, colorings and stainings of articles of food and the bleaching of grain with sulphur, and the sale of such foods and foodstuffs is forbidden. Chemical preservatives may not be used, except benzoate of soda as an external application, and then only when the food to which it is applied may be easily washed clean of it. Specific provi
sions are made as to canned goods, baking powders, syrup, molasses, glucose mixtures, maple mixtures, sausage mixtures, jelly and jams, dairy products and liquors. There are important chapters also referring to the sani tary production and distribution of food.
Food and Drugs Act of 2 March 1911 is administered by the dairy, food and oil commissioner. It is modeled after the Federal law. The food standards of the United States Department of Agriculture are formally adopted and foods not up to those standards are declared adulterated. The mak ing and selling of bleached flour is forbidden. The statement of facts required by law to be placed on the label must be on the principal or °face label.* Dunn, C. W., 'Pure Food and Drug Legal Manual) (New York 1913); Greeley, A. P., The Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906: A Study> (Washington 1907) ; Philippine Islands Statutes No. 1655 (Manila 1910); Scientific Standards for the Government Regulation of Foods (in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 83, pp. 344-354, Lancaster, Pa., 1913). See Foot), ADULTERATION OF.