Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1911 — Health Beard Plans Tour With Pare Feed Exhibit. [ARTICLE]

Health Beard Plans Tour With Pare Feed Exhibit.

A food exhibit being prepared in the laboratories of the State Board of Health will eclipse all former exhibits attempted by the pure food department of the state board, according to H. E. Barnard, food and drug commissioner. It is planned to start the exhibit on a tour early in September and show it at county seats throughout the state. In most cases the pure food exhibit will be shown in connection with the tuberculosis exhibit of the State Board of Health. Requests have reached the department from other states for the exhibition of the specimens, prepared by Mr. Barnard and bis assistants. New York is one of the states wishing to have the exhibit shown within Its boundaries. t 1 Trays are prepared showing all varieties of food, spices, condiments, Jellies and fruit products. The adulterated food is shown beside the unadulterated and the relative prices of each kind are tabulated. The label laws of the state are exemplified in the exhibit and numerous examples are shown Qf the way in which manufacturers fool the public with labels. Meats which have been sold to housewives and which later have been found ro contain tubercular germs form another phase of the exhibit Fruit products preserved with benzoate of soda and those mada from pure fruits are shown and adulterated spices of all varieties are inclosed in small, labeled glass jars where the public can see exactly the difference between the pure and the impure. In many cases, Mr. Barnard said Friday, the adulteration of the products shown has ceased so far as is known in Indiana and the exhibit in these cases is meant merely as a warning to the Hoosier housewives. There has been no spice adulteration in Indiana, so far as is known, according to Mr. Barnard, for the past three years. A week will be spent in each county seat visited by the exhibit.