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56TH CONGRESs, SENATE. REPORT
1st Session. fNo. 516.
ADULTERATION OF FOOD PRODUCTS.
FEBRUARY 28, 1900.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. MAsoN, from the Committee on Manufactures,.submitted the
following
REPORT.
[To accompany S. Res. 447, Fifty-fifth Congress.]
Under the following resolution:
Whereas it is and has been for years publicly charged that in the manufacture of
articles of food and drink many manufacturers of the United States, who transport
their goods from one State to another, do most grossly adulterate such products, to
the serious detriment of the public health and to the defrauding of purchasers:
Therefore,
Resolved, That the Committee on Manufactures of the Senate is hereby authorized
and directed to investigate and ascertain what, if any, manufacturers are adulterating
food and drink products, and which, if any, of said products are frauds upon the
purchasers.
Your committee beg leave to report that after the passage of said
resolution they began taking evidence under the same, and have pro-
ceeded from time to time in different cities of the United States,
which evidence has been duly reported and printed for the use of the
Senate.
The committee can not emphasize too strongly the importance of
this investigation and proposed legislation. The adulteration of pre-
pared or manufactured foods is very extensively practiced and in many
cases to the great discredit of our manufacturers. It is only fair to
say, however, that a laroe proportion of the American manufacturers
who are engaged in adulterating food products do so in order to meet
competition, and it is the expression of those gentlemen to say, We
would be glad to get out of the business of adulterating. We would
like to quit putting this stuff in coffee, and would be willing to brand
our sirups for what they are, but our competitors get a trade advan-
tage which we can not surrender.
It is the purpose of this committee to adopt this uniform rule: To
prohibit the sale of deleterious and unhealthy food products, and as to
those food products which are simply cheapened by adulterants, to
compel the marking of those goods for what they are. An examina-
tion of the resolution shows that these are the two objects to be sought:
To ascertain what food products are dangerous to public health, and,
second, what products are sold in fraud to the consumer. The com-
mittee has adopted the rule above stated, for the reason that it feels](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.usccsset/usconset31267&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)