Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1907 — Soda Fountains Next. [ARTICLE]

Soda Fountains Next.

Owners of soda fountains in this city may expect a visit from the inspectors connected with the state laboratory of hygiene. They have begun work at Indianapolis and from that point will visit all parts of the state. Of the result in Indianapolis, a di-patch from that city says. “Owners of soda fountains in Indianapolis were given a taste of the new pure food law as it affects them, when the fool inspectors connected with the state laboratory of hygiene inspected their fcftmtains and ordered some change. The faun ains in many places were found in an unsanitary condition, ind a general cleaning was ordered. The inspection of soda fountains will be feature of soda fountains will be feature of the work of the drug inspection. The inspector will test everything, ‘both in front and behind the counter,’ as State Food Commissioner H. E. Barnard expressed it ” “The inspectors,” said Mr. Barnard, “will see that the floors are kept clean, the glasses are properly washed and that syrup cans aud spouts of the fountains are kept clean. Special attention will be paid to the ice cream and syrup sold. The new rules adopted by the board set a standard for iee cream that will do away with the sale of skimmed milk preparations, Thickened with corn starch, and that have been largely sold. “The standard for ice cream under the new law is not less than S per cent of butter fat, nor 18 per cent of milk solids. The cream, can be sweetened only with cane or beet sugar and may contain not to exceed one-seventh of 1 per cent of gelatine. Coloring materials in syrups and crushed fruits are prohibited as are preservatives. If not kept in refrigerator the syrups or crushed fruits must be kept covered. Flies and dust must be kept out.”