Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1907 — WORLD TO WAR ON BAD FOOD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WORLD TO WAR ON BAD FOOD.

Uncle Sam’i Crnsade Becoming *of Interest to AU Nations. The present visit to Europe of Dr. Wiley of the Department of Agriculture will probably result in the calling of an

international congress to secure uniformity of practice in the treatment of food adulterations. It appears that there is little difference of opinion among the health authorities of the various nations as to the propriety of establishing rules for the manufacture of food and drug products in the in-

terest of the public health, but differences have arisen at each stage of the attempt to frame regulations for the government of the expert trade in such commodities owing to honest difference of opinion as to the proper definition of adulteration. Although taking an advanced position in this matter as revealed in the stringent legislation contained in the pure food law, the government of the United States has been obliged at times to take sharp issue with some of the European government officials as to the harmful ness of certain ingredients of our food exported. Against purely technical objections the Agricultural Department has been contending with difficulty for a long time. But with the passage of the pure food act, with the authority contained therein to apply its provisions to imported food and drugs and wines, the department finds its hand nfhch strengthened in dealing with European governments, which are now beginning to show a very practical interest in the inquiry which Dr. Wiley is making into the nature of the ingredients of the great quantities of foreign delicatessen and liquors that are flowing into the United States.

DR. WILEY.