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Show PURE FOOD MEN AT FACTORIES State Officials Pleased With the New Method of Washing Tomatoes and Preparing; Them For the Cans Ogden Plants Are in Excellent Condition as to Sanitation. The food fyt-tirios of Ogden toda:-" CMlcttalned ihe members of the State Dairy and Food Bureau, the owners i'f the .vnrlous plants where food products pro-ducts are produced throwing open their doors .vid. inviting the board to makea trip through the departments. The toir. while not of an orficlol nature, na-ture, was neor the less a thorough 3 and showed the local plants to be in excellent sanitary condition. ,The bureau, which was formed vAiout a year aao, consists of fls't members, J. (1 Carver of this city being Its chai'maa Willard Hanson, tlate dairy and food commissioner, of Salt Laky and Herman Harms, slate ehemi.sV also of Salt Lake City, came to OrJen at an early hour this morn-Jngv morn-Jngv accompanied by their wives, and. aUer. a breakfast served at the Career Car-eer residence, the party started on the inspection tour. The party was enlarged by the presence of S- S Jensen, L. L Pierce. James Wother-spoon. Wother-spoon. President Middleton, Mr. and Mrs. J. S, Campbell and Mr. and Mrs. L'. E. Wright, who accompanied the inspectors on the trip. The presence of the ladies in the Inspection party was, rather unique and the women proved themselves to be as observant! i f not more so. than the male members mem-bers and they were also Just as inter-j inter-j esied. ' The circuit of the various plants j was made in four automobiles. The tirst place visited was the Utah Can-1 nlng factory where the party was i well entertained by the management I ind samples of 'he canned goods given giv-en to each of the party. Every department de-partment of the factory was visited and the process of canning the tomato toma-to w-ns followed from the arrival of the fruit to the plant to the placing H the labels on the cans. From the canning factory the party vent to the Shupe-Williams candy u tory w her e they w atched the mun-uncture mun-uncture of sweets in all the various torms, colors, shapes and tastes. Snmples of the candies were carrle.1 away, rogetber with a sweet taste ond a knowledge that the local candy factory is making a very higli grade of candies under the best sanitary icndltlons possible. The next stop was at the Ogden Fucking company's plant and a trip through the packing house failed to reveal any of the conditions which Fpton Sinclair claimed to hae ex- Htcd in the packing houses of Chi-cpgo Chi-cpgo There ' were no hidden cham- I hers the entire plant was thrown J open to the visitors. Everything was foun l to be in the most sanitary condition. con-dition. The crowd was sersed with a luncheon of the plant's products a very practical way of displaying the qivility of tlve company's goods. Evidence of Sanitation. A short pause was made at the Peery mills- aud from there the western west-ern Bottling works were inspected. Refreshments were again served and the rather intricate process of making mak-ing Holt drinks and bottling the same was followed with much Interest, The Blackmail & Grlfiln creamery was next on the list and proved an interesliug plant, the spectacle oT making butter by the latest processes being a re elation in Industrial progress prog-ress to many in the party. The same pin-like cleauness that was so apparent appar-ent in the othev plants was again seen at the butter factory, and even the women in the crowd marveled. The day's Inspection finished with a trip to the V. H. Anderson nnd the John Wlsou fruit orchards, after which the party took a pleasure ride up the Ogden canyon Mr. Hansen, state dairy and food commissioner. In speaking of the trip and the conditions found in the various vari-ous places visited, said that the local factories are equal to any In the state and conditions or the Utah plants in general arc superior to those of any other state In the Union. "I am particularly impiessed with the new method of canning tomatoes." he said. "By the process now used in washing the mi it the canning is absolutely above criticism. The tomatoes toma-toes are so thoroughly washed with a stream of hot water that every speck of decayed matter is eradicated and eery germ killed before the fruit goes into the can. Fruit canned at home in the cleanest Kitchen could not pos-Btbly pos-Btbly be more pure. I doubt very much if the canning factories of the east are taking the sanitary precautions precau-tions that are in vogue here. The fruit is hardly touched by human hand from vine to can. The other food plants are In equally good sanitary' sani-tary' condition." Inspection Inted. State Chemist Harms said that the present tour maJe at tue request of the factory owners was a new thing in the pure food inspesiton business. "A few years ago," he said, "fcod factory fac-tory proprietors never welcomed an inspector. They were very much afraid of us. and we had to force all of the liberties that we took at their plants. They never invited us to come and go through their places. It Is likely that the same conditions still exist In some partp of the United States, but they have passed away In the state of Utah. The factories of this state are clean and the owners do not fear to have them inspected." Mr. Carver, who was In charge or the party, says that the tour should not be looked upon as an official offi-cial inspection, as the official tours are always made when the factory fac-tory owners are not expecting such a visit. There was no reflection on the honesty or the owner6 In Mr. Carver's statement, but showed that the chairman chair-man of the pure food bureau is thoroughly thor-oughly awake to the public's interest In the matter of factory inspection. i "The trip was one of an educational j nature," explained Mr. Carver. "The bureau Is new in the business of food inspection and every trip throuah a plant increases our knowledge of food preparation. When we meet at our next regular session we will le better able to decide on future actions if we hae a moro thorough knowledge or the plants and their workings." The interest manifested In the Inspection In-spection work by the members of the pure food bureau Is wholly a public interest as the members of the bureau bur-eau terve without remuneration of any kind, aside from their bnre ex- j penses. |