Show GREAT GREA J PROGRESS MADE IN N fOOD AND DRUG INSPECTION W WASHINGTON Au Aug 6 The The progress pro gress gross made in food a and d dru drug inspection and legislation during 1907 1007 is explained in detail in tho the year book of tho the department do de of agriculture which has just been issued The experimental work of tho the burc bureau u of chemistry the enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- ment mont of ot tho federal food tood and drug acts the numerous investigations that have havo been carried on and the part played by various states in tho the enactment of la laws I regulating tho the manufacture and sale sae of food are aro some of the subjects treated The bureau of chemistry established ten additional branch laboratories throughout hout tho the countr country where samples of foods and dru drugs collected b by tho the force of inspectors who work under the direction of a n chief inspector are sent Durin During last year rear samples of foods and dru drugs s were sent to these laboratories labora laborn- tories tones resulting in hearings and anti the transmittal of twelve criminal cases to the tho department of justice for prose prose- cution One Ono of the greatest difficulties encountered was to secure a n sufficient number of inspectors or chemists possessing pos pos- the requisite training and ana experience experience ex ex- in foods and drugs Methods of manufacture wore studied and whenever possible assistance was given riven manufacturers in improving their methods B By means of sterilization it was found that various fruits and ve vegetable vege- vege e table products can be preserved without without with with- out the tho use of chemical preservatives Tho The e experiments along this line lino resulted re rc suIted in new methods for the tho preservation preservation preservation tion of pie ie fillin filling articles and canned goods Extensive investigations at ons as to tho the use of sulphur for drying fruit wore made resulting in the discovery of bettor better methods for drying fruit and in disclosing the tho fact that molasses and syrup do not contain nearly so 80 much sulphur as has generally been boon supposed The Tho stud study of the influence of cold stora storage o upon the valne value of food gained muc much headway Amon Among the tho more important important im im- im studies of the tho methods of manufacture and preservation reservation of foods and drugs were the bleached flour inesti investigation in in- esti atlon the lemon oil investigation tion the whisky investigation and the investigation of non fermented beverages bever ages all alleged ed to contain cocaine or oy other objectionable dru drugs s. s During the last year rear ear out of fort four forty four legislatures legislatures' which mot met mot fort forty enacted laws in lag ng to the tho purity punt of foods |