Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1911 — Circular Letter No. 13 Unsound Fruits and Vegetables. [ARTICLE]

Circular Letter No. 13 Unsound Fruits and Vegetables.

The attention of farmers, gardeners, hucksters and other persons producing or dealing in fruits and vegetables is called to Section 2 of the Pure Food Law which prohibits the sale of food which consists in any proportion of decomposed, putrid or rotten vegetable substances, whether manufactured or not. This section plainly holds the farmer or- merchant who sells unsound fruit such as apples, peaches and small fruits, tomatoes, melons and vegetables of every description, liable for violation of the Pure Food Law. It applies with equal force to the farmer who sells his tomatoes, corn or fruit to the canning factory as to the commission man or retail merchant. County, state and town health officers, state food inspectors, and all other officers whose duty it is to enforce the pure food and sanitary food laws, will be governed by this notice in regulating the sale of fruits and vegetables. H. E. BARNARD, State Food and Drug Com’r.