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Show UNCLE SAM TO ENFORCE LAW AS TO PURE FOOD Imported Products Will Be Analyzed Before They " Arc Allowed to Go to Consumers. NEW YORK, Nov. 12. Collector of Customs Stranahan at thd yot't of .New York has assumed the aggressive for the Government in it aitltud toward the enforcement of the pure food law with especlal reference to the labeling of all Imported products with the formula for-mula noting the use of coloring 0 preserving pre-serving substances of whatever kind, such as sulphate of copper, boraclc acid, glucore, etc. That the authorities1 have decided to phow no more leniency toward to-ward importers and foreign manufacturers manufac-turers failing to comply with the law Is evidenced by the fact that a large quantity, of "egg-white" a pasty preparation pre-paration used extensively by bakers and confectioners' found to contain a dangerous amount of boraclc &eid-twas ordered trans-shipped to France. At the same time Importers generally were notified that hereafter the policy of the Government would be to force the trans-shipmnt to the original rolnt of shipment of all goods brought here without proper labels. This was the first intimation the Importers had received re-ceived tht radical measures were to be resorted to at once to enforce the law. They quickly sought cover by cabling the manufacturers in Europe to hold up further shipments indefinitely. From official sources it is learned that hereafter little or no attention is to be paid to the analysis furnished by importers im-porters themselves or those attested by official of othr Governments, and that no other labels are to be pased until after a rample of the goods has bem analyzed by the bureau of chemistry of the Department of Airriculture. Several large consignments of cherries cher-ries prt w?rveU, in glucose, or "grane sugar," su-gar," will be ordered returned to the manufacturer forkproper labeling probably prob-ably today, and the practice of allowing allow-ing Importers to remove a portion of a shipment under penal bond Is to be discontinued dis-continued for the present. |