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Show f WHEN VINEGAR IIS ADULTERATED Washington, March 1. What vinegar vine-gar Is in the United States is determined deter-mined by a decision of the- government govern-ment pure food board, signed today by Secretary of Agriculture Wilson. Tho decision holds that when natural vinegars arc diluted with water to reduce re-duce their acidity, the label must Indicate In-dicate this fact, and that no vinegars may be diluted to an acidity of loss than four grams of acetic acid per 100 cubic centimetres, or approximately approxi-mately per cont, Dr. Dunlap, one of tho three mom-, ;j ' bers of the board, did not agreo with J '' T)r Wiley, tho chairman, and Dr. Doo-,' Doo-,' JJttle, and refused to ,slgn the re-jf re-jf I I" port. He olalmed that tho addition of r water to vinegar constituted acjultera-I acjultera-I & Hon "as rnuch. as the fatf oning . of j oysters "In fresh -water or the thinning v of milk by the pumphandle process." I ': - Secretary ,of Agriculture Wilson has ,Y :' ! approed a decision of tho pure food ? , board which holds that no cherries I ; may be labeled "Maraschino" unless . ; they are Marascha cherries preserved a I in Maraschino, a liquor prepared by ij distillation of the marascha berry. |