Show I V t 1 j. j COMMISSIONER COMMISSiONERS S MAKES REPORT State Pure Food Bureau I h Is S Given Some Interesting S Information IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED I Local Local Officials Will Attend Bi Big t. t S Food Convention hiS in hi I S Denver S Members of Utah's state pure puro foot food bureau held their month monthly meeting Thursday afternoon at nt tho rooms o of l Willard Hanson Hansen state food tood and commissioner on tho the fifth firth floor loor 0 01 ot II S Com Coin and County building tho the Cit City missioner Hansen Hanson made an Informal the work accomplished ac oc- r bureau on the thc to report f during luring tho the last month Ir In 1 the various departments ts and th the 0 members mom mom- transacted a considerable amount l llers bers rs tran of routine business sS The summary o ol or f Hanson HanEen Han Han- Commissioner tho the report made by the tho Investigation Into various son sen on food products offered for tor sale were as a follows Flour Flour The The ruling of or flour flout should S be ho enforced and a date set for the branding of correct weights Complaints Complaints Com Com- plaints are arc made b by manufacturers that tho they have ordered their sacks for fall use uso U A and they ask that wo we give KI their sacks them plenty of ot time to have hayo stamped Slaughter Houses Houses Time The slaughterhouses slaughterhouses slaughter houses have all been visited In our larger arger cities and In a n majority of cases deplorable condition Wo Yo ivero I In a have e ordered two slaughtering pens Tens built closed and new ones have been All others were ordered to clean clenn up Hogs wore were ordered out of ot mud arid and to be fed ted nt itt least feet from en Ien In clean troughs These orders so j pen still far Jar have ha been complied with but the conditions are aro not as ns the they thoy should be Milk Milk Samples Milk Samples of or milk have been taken In Salt Lake Ogden den and somo some of ot our lending leading mining camps and In Inmost most cases they thay test up to standard po flO far Car as butter fat Is concerned Sevan complaints have he been en flied filed for milk below standard Two have pleaded guilty and paid their lines fines of 1550 each Tho The other othor cases casos will come tho the tho the up soon Here In cly dy have havo been furnishing milk that and amid in connection i 1 has mas aroused suspicion tion with the city Inspector thirty thirty- two 1 samples wore were taken kon from restaurants restaurants I ants and twenty were found to be bo below below bolow be- be low standard I 1 Restaurants hotels and dining cars have been visited In all parts of the and there thero Is much room for tor Im- Im pro ement In most cases Milk and cream cream have o been destroyed when found un In unclean receptacles Meat and other lother foods have been destroyed when found In a tate state of ot decay I 1 During the tho last month wo we have havo vigorous campaign n among our ourI made a I dairies having ono one of the men do nothing but Inspect and score dairies His labors have been confined to Og O Ogdon don and Weber eber county count The scoring revealed a very poor condition This I Is the tho cause of ot our milk being I ered cred In a a. very ory poor condition Until cannot not we have clean pure dairies we wo expect expect to have pure milk I lIo hogs M Quarantined t Meat Meat We We have quarantined twelve hogs hoga that wore found to have symptoms toms of ot disease around slaughtering pens In most cases tho the city health S officer would handle these cases Somo Some of tho the hogs were killed and amI burned S. S Wo We have found some of or our farmers S killing diseased ho hogs s and amI stilling selling them themon themon on our market Four of or these hogs I. I were quad found upon examination to bo be diseased and tho they were destroyed Two much cows were ordered killed during the month as the they found to o be bo diseased Grocery Stores Stores Stores-In In the tho Inspection of our grocery stores we have found a a. great deal of or old mislabeled ex extracts ex- ex tracts which were ordered destroyed I There has been a great deal of acetic S acid sold as vinegar We e have havo located twenty or thirty barrels which have been confiscated cOf and preparations aro are being made to prosecute Our department made 39 1 Inspections inspections during the month of or July Juh S The Thc members of the board discussed several matters motters which It Is 13 proposed to Sto havo taken up at nt tho tImo meeting of or the Association of State and NationalS National Food and Dairy departments to bo be beS S S held at Denver this month and theao S will be brought up by Commissioner Mansen at the tho meeting Branding of Flour Ilour 1 The Tue board decided that it would be advisable to have havo the tho question of the branding 1 of or flour Hour taken up It was decided b by the bureau that tho the manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers manu manu- of ot flour nour sold hero here will be compelled to put letters at le least st three-quarters three of an inch in height on the sacks Thu Thi thirteenth annual convention of the he Association of ot State and National Food and Dairy departments will wiil bo be hold held at Denver from August Augut 24 to 27 and nii an fl interesting program will be h. carried out olit in which officials of Ucla Is of tho I Utah State Pure Food department will participate The state board of examiners ex ex- has delegated Mr Hansen and Mr Harms state chemist t. t to attend 1 the tho convention The Tho session on the tho afternoon of or the first da day is to be devoted to a n. discussion of ot The Most Salient Features In th the tho Food Dairy and Dru Drug Control Work of or the Re- Re States live five minute speeches being asked from the commissioners of or the various arlous states which will bo be represented Commissioner Hanson Hansen Is scheduled I 1 S to Lo make a a. speech on this occasion State food commissioners and state chemists from the tho various arlous states will vill 1 S speak on questions of or interest to tho the association I |