Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1900 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

INDIANA Sltt Bond «l MH.

FOOD. Rules of the Indiana State Board of Health. According to Chapter CXX I. Acts of 1899, Establishing Minimum Standards and Defining Specific Adulterations of Foods and Drugs. Passed October 13, 1899. MILK. Rule 1. Pure cow’s milk si a'lhave the following minimum comuositiuii: Eat, 3 per cent.; solids, not fat. 9 percent. Rule ?. Water i x sting in cow's milk inexce.a ui 88 per cent shall be an adulteration. Any coloring matter added, for any purpose whatsoever, shall be an adulteration. Any chemical antUepiic whatever, added for any purp se whatsoever, shall be an adulteration. Rule 3. Milk sold or offered for human consumption that Is taken from a cow that has calved within four (4) days, orfrjm a cow that will come in or calve inside of one (21) days, is polluted, aud shall be considered as adulterated. Rule 4. Milk sold or offered for human consumption 'that is taken from a cow fed with damaged food, or any food which will impart a disagreeable flavor, is Impure, and snail be considered as adulterated. Rules. Milk sold or offered for human consumption that is taken from any sick or uiseaseu cow, or any cow that is given polluted water to drink, or which ii kept under conCllioi.s contrary t> the rules cf the state Board of Health guve* ning dairies, is Impure and shall be considered as adulterated. BUTTKR. Rule 6 The word "butter” shall mean the substance usually known as butter, made exclusively from milk or cream, with or without salt or coloring mutter, and shall contain not less than ou per cent, of pure milk fats. Rule 7. If any it the following named substances ute tuuuU in butter, they shall be considered adulterants: Waler in excess of la per C'.nt.:»ait in excess of 0 per cent.; salicylic acid, borax, boric acid, saltpeter, formaldehyde, gli cose, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate, or any other added chemical, or any other fat than butter fat, any other coloring matter than Is natural to butter, except annatto, saffron safflower, turmeric and harmless coal tar colors. • MARJARINE. Rul® 8. Th word "margarine” shall mean all substances, whether compounds or otherwise, prepared in Imitation of butter, and whether mixed with butter or not. Rules If any of the following named substances are found in "margarine” they shall be considered adulterants: Water in excess of 15 per cent.; salt in excess of 6 per cent.; glucose, paraffine, salicylic acid, borax, boric acid, saltpeter, formaluehyde. so.iurn carbonate or bicarbonate, or any chemical preservative. Any coloring matter or mixture of coloring matters other than annatto, saffron, safflower and turmeric and other harmless vegetable colors, and the harmless coal tar colors, shall be considered uuniterauts.

CHEESE. Rule 10. Cheese not made wholly from milk or cream, salt and haimiess coloring matter shad Le lunsideieu auuiterated. -Rule 11. Cheese containing Itss than 10 per cent, of milk fats shall be considered adulterated unless plainly labeled “skim milk cheese” in letters not less than one inch long, the label to be plainly exposeu. Rule 12. C heese containing any other fats than milk fats sliu.il be considered adulterated unless plainly labeled “> Hied Cheese.” Rule 13. Cheese ontaining any coloring matter other than annatto, safflower, saffron, turmeric or batnihss coal tar colors,shall be considered as auuiterated. Rule 14. Cheese containing any chemical antiseptic other th-.ii common salt shall be cons, den d as adulterated, unless pla niy labeled with the name of the antiseptic it contains. Rule 15. Any article of food,' as catsup, mince meat, canned meats or fish, canned v getables, canned soups, canned fruits, molasses or syrups, which aie iound to be preserved by or to contain salicylic acid, benzoic acid, boracic acid, formaldehyde orany of their compounds or any other antiseptic, shall be considered as adulterated unless the article of food so preserved is plainly labeled with the name of the preservative or antiseptic added. The label .announcing any article of food, of the class in this rule nanxd, as preserved with any antiseptic shall*t.e printed in plain type, either upon the original or a s. paratfe label, and it shall be firmly and secure!* attached on the exterior of lhe package, and in plain sight. This rule shall be in force and take effect October 1,1900.

Rule 16. Coffee-Any article offered for sale as coffee, which contains auy substitute for the coffee bean tn any proportion, shall be consideied as adulterated unless the quantity and kind of such substitute is given us part of the label. Rule 17. candy—Any candy containing terra alba, barytes, talc, or other mineral substance, or poisonous colors or flavors, or ary ingredle t deleterious to health, shall be considered as adulterated. Rule 18. Cider Cider is the unfertuented juice of the apple. Any substitute tor apple juice or any autiseplic auded constitutes au adulteration, and such adulterated cider shall not be offered for sale unles each pack age Is labeled arid the name of the adulterant is made a part o the label. HULE 19. Flour.—Flour is defined as the fine and bolted meal of the wheat grain. Any Hour that is mixed with the product of any grain except wheat, oris mixed with any 1 mineral substance, shall be consideied as ‘ adulterated, unless each package is labeled and the kind and the amount of the admixture is made part of the label. Rule*2o. Buckwheat and Rye Flour.— Buckwheat and rye flour n ust be derived wholly from grains designated in tie name, and any admixture of other flours or materialsconstitutes an adulteration, unless each package is labeled and the kind and amount of such acmixtureis made part of,! the label. Rule 21. Fruit jellies, fruit butters, preserves. canned fruits, fruit conserves, confections, fruit juices and syrups, etc., must consist of the fiuit specified in the label, preserved only with cane sugar (sucrosei, and must not contain artificial lit v.ns, coloring antiseptics. If such articles contain any substitute-for the fruit, or any inferior material to make uu bulk or weight, any glucose or other -übstitute for sugar, any artificial flavor, color or antiseptic, or any substance not naturally occurring in such fruits, except spices or other wholesome natural flavoring materials, they shall tie considered adulterated, and shall not be offered for sale unless the presence of all such substances is dearly Indicated by the label. This rule shall be in force and take effect October 1. 19ou. Rule 22. Honey.—Honey is the nectar of flowers and other saccharine exudations of plants gathered by bees. Honey made by feeding bees glucose, sugar, in vet t sugar, or Oluer saccharine substance, is declared not to be pure honey, and, ’hereiore. is adulterated. Adding sugar, in vert sugar or glucose to honey constitutes an adulteration, and such adulterated honey shall not be sold unless the quantity and name of the adulterant is maue pan Of the label. Rule 23. Lard.—Lard is the fatof swine, the fat being melted, and separated from the flesh. Adding beef tat or stearine, cotton seed oil, puratfine or other substitute for swlne fat constitutes au adulteration, and such adulterated lard shall not be sold unless labeled and the quantity and name of the adulterant is made part of the label. Ruljc 24. Molasses and Syrup*. All moIssses and syrups are assumed to be made from the juice of cane or other sugar-pro-ducing plant, or the sap of the maple tree, and any syrup or molasses containing starch sugar, glucose or corn syrup shall be considered adulterated, and any substance sold or offered for sale as “maple sugar or syrup” that shall contain any brown sugar, granulated sugar or loaf sugar or colored or flavored with decoction of hickory bark, corncobs or any other similar substances, shall be considered adulterated, unless the label plainly indicates the substances used. Rule 25. Olive ell is the expressed oil of the oilv«. The substitutlou of other oils or fate for olive oil, either In part or whole, con-