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Show Better Produce Laws Necessary Cooperation between produce dealers and growers to obtain state laws and regulations which will facilitate rather than hamper interstate trade in fruits and vegetables vege-tables was urged today by Wells A. Sherman of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, addressing address-ing the National League of Wholesale Whole-sale Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Distributors in annual- convention at Atlanta, Georgia. Sherman pointed to the present multiplicity of state laws dealing with the grading, branding, inspecting in-specting and packing of fruit and vegetable shipments, declaring declar-ing that some of this legislation impedes the flow of perishable products across state lines. He said that "many states go far beyond anything which is required by United States law. "State action," he continued, "should apply only to interstate business or to those products of the state which are not yet under interstate billing. The jurisdiction of the state in purely economic matters which do not involve public pub-lic health, pest, or disease control, or fraud, or misrepresentations, begins only when the goods are offered for sale within the state, not when they reach its borders." |