Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1906 — ULTIMATUM TO PACKERS [ARTICLE]

ULTIMATUM TO PACKERS

labels on Their Goods Must Be So a. Blind Man Though a Fool Need Not Err. > Washington, Aug. 31. —Nothing short of the placing upon meat products of labels which will not deceive the public was the ultimatum which Secretary Wilson delivered to forty representatives of various packing! houses who met here. Hereafter if the packers want their goods accepted for interstate shipment they must bear labels more specific than those used in the past. It will not da for instance, to state merely that a package contains sausage. The label mustdistinctly describe the article and plainly show that the sausage Is entirely of pork, of pork and beef combined, or of other ingredients. The same rule will apply to other products.