Indiana.— The State Board of Health regu lates the enforcement of the Pure Food Laws of this State which were first enacted in 1907, following the Federal statute. The Sanitary Food Law of 1909 provides for the sanitation of bakeries, canneries, packing - houses, slaughter-houses, dairies, creameries cheese factories, confectioneries, restaurants, hotels, meat markets, and all other food-producing establishments, and vehicles in which food is placed for transportation. Section 8 of this law provides that °No employer shall require, permit or suffer any person to work, nor shall any person work, in the building, room, base ment, cellar or vehicle occupied or used for the production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale, distribution and transportation of food, who is afflicted with any infectious or contagious disease." The law specifically pro hibits the use of any arsenic, formaldehyde or antiseptic injurious to health. Sugar substi tutes are forbidden in foods and alum may not be added to pickles. Bleached flour may not be sold. The labels on all compound foods must bear first among the ingredients the name of the one in largest proportion. The Board of Health authorizes the issuing of letters or orders by the State food and drug commissioner relating to such subjects as sidewalk display of foodstuffs, sausages with cereal added, etc. These are for the guidance of the trade.
Iowa.-- A ruling under the 1907 Pure Food Law of this State points out that this State law "cannot touch the shipment or sale of foods across the State line and that for this reason the manufacturer without the State is perfectly safe, so far as prosecutions are con cerned, in sending into this State goods that do not comply with the Iowa law.° The law was amended 6 April 1909 and 14 April 1911. Strict rules are in force as to the sanitary pro tection of all foods on sale and in the process of manufacture. A guaranty by others does not exempt the dealer. The national and State laws are quite different in their labelling provisions and goods sold in this State must bear the labels required by the State law. The two laws are nearly alike in regard to prohibi tion of ingredients, such as chemical preserva tives, harmful colors and flavors and similar adulterations which are prohibited by both laws. In the case of goods which, to be legally sold, require specific form of labels, the provisions of the two laws are different and the dealer who buys to sell again inside this State cannot rely upon the national guaranty for his label ling under the Iowa statute. In the case of compound and mixed foods the name first upon the label must be that of the largest ingredient. The laws of Iowa are strong in regard to dairy products; standards fixed for various kinds of vinegar are also notably complete; floated oysters and shucked oysters to which ice or water has been added are specifically de clared adulterated.
Katilsas.— The Food and Drug Law of this State was approved 14 Feb. 1907 and amended 12 March 1909. It is administered by the State Board of Health. It is almost an exact copy of the Federal law, the only dif ference as applied to foods being that in sec tion 6 under the definition of food, as used in this law, are added the words "or in the preparation of food." These added words are meant to cover all condiments, flavors, extracts, baking powders and such other articles as enter into the preparation of food, which is not clearly set forth in the national law. In sec tion 7, under °Foods," the word "tainted" is inserted in the Kansas law, but does not ap pear in the national law. This is for the pur pose of covering certain unwholesome prod ucts that may not be decomposed in the strict sense of the word, but which may be tainted with gases or ptomaines. Also, in section 8, the word °arsenic° appears in the Kansas law with contained drugs required to be mentioned on the label. The regulations provide for the sanitary cleanliness of apartments and furnish ings of all factories and stores where food is made or sold and of all vehicks in which it is transported. Sidewalk displays must be dust and fly proof. Oysters may not contain added water and must test to 10 per cent solids. Meat products may not contain sulphites or any secret preparation. All fish, fowl and game animals, rabbits, etc., placed in cold storage must first have the entrails drawn.
Kentucky.— The Pure Food Law of Ken tucky was approved 13 March 1908 and amended 25 March 1909. It is administered by the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station who makes analysis of samples of food and drugs which are manufactured or on sale in the State, or are suspected by the Board of Health or Board of Pharmacy of being adulter ated or misbranded, at the fixed fee of $7.50 and necessary expenses. He fixes standards of purity, quality or strength when such standards are necessary, or are not fixed by statute. The standards of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture are followed wherever possible. Adulterations, if not unwholesome and truthfully stated on the label, are permitted. Every buyer of foods which have been bleached by sulphurous acid must be notified personally or in writing to that effect. Benzoic acid and benzoates are declared injurious to health and foods containing them may not be sold. Guar antees to be protective of the retail dealer must be by a resident of the State.