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Show 110 STIPIWE PACKA8ESDF BUTTER State Food and Dairy Commissioner Com-missioner Makes Recommendations Recom-mendations in Report. Utah needs a law standardizing the size of packages in which butter is sold, declares Willard Hanson, state food and dairy commissioner, in his biennial report re-port to the governor, filed yesterday, This is one of the few states in the Union, be remarks, where a standard package is not provided for by law and in consequent the Bale of butter weighing weigh-ing less than a pound ia the rule, rather than the exception. lie also recommends, as ex-officio hotel ho-tel inspector, that a law be passed requiring re-quiring all hotels in every city or town equipped with a public water system to be equipped with suitable flushing lavatories i or the use of guests. The law governing fumigation or hotel rooms where vermin is round also should be strengthened, he suggests. As cK-officio inspector of weights and measures he asks lor a lew giving him the power to destroy all scales which cannot be repaired in order to aid iu the campaign against short weights. He voices the opinion that state-wide inspection of meat should be inaugurated, inaugu-rated, but that tho work should be done by the cities and towns themselves with the aid and co-operation of state and federal officers. Many requests have been made to his department for more detailed inspections in the arious cities and towns than it is possible to make under present conditions. In the food and dairy department more than 2500 detailed i n? pec t ions were made during the last biennium, and more than SOOO 'inspections were mad'e in thf other departments coining under his direction. Tho inspections include meat markets, fish markets, slaughter housps, packing houses, commission houses, creameries, cheese factories, condensed con-densed milk factories, produce houses, citv milk plants, farm dairies, ice cream plants, soda fountains, drug stores, restaurants, res-taurants, canning factories, candy factories, fac-tories, cold storage plants, grocery stores, hotels, bakeries, dining cars, pickle factories, flour mills and all other oth-er sources of food manufacture. The commissioner avers that the day of willful misbranding of food or adulterations adul-terations is passing into history in Utah and that the food supplied to the public pub-lic dow is cleaner, more wholesome and in many ways superior to what it was several years Qgo. |