FOOD LEGISLATION DURING THE YEAR ENDED

JUNE 30, 1908.

FEDERAL LAWS.

During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1908, no Federal food laws were passed with the exception of the amendment to the tea law, which is printed herewith. The following orders, regulations, and decisions issued by the Bureau of Animal Industry and the Board of Food and Drug Inspection of the United States Department of Agriculture and by the Bureau of Internal Revenue of the United States Treasury Department are enumerated as a matter of record, but are not reprinted:

Bureau of Animal Industry: B. A. I. Order No. 147, Regulations Prescribed in Regard to Renovated Butter in Accordance with the Act of Congress Approved May 9, 1902 (July 11, 1907). B. A. I. Order No. 150, Regulations Governing the Meat Inspection of the United States Department of Agriculture (effective April 1, 1908). Amendment to B. A. I. Order No. 150, Amendment to Section 19 of Regulation 25, Exempting Shipments of Certain Inedible Grease, Tallow, or Other Fat from the Provision Requiring the Denaturing of Inedible Products (April 24, 1908). B. A. I. Meat Inspection Rulings-2 A, Colors (September 2, 1907). B. A. I. Meat Inspection Rulings-3 A, Notice Regarding the Enforcement of that Portion of Paragaph 5 of Section 19 of Regulation 25 of B. A. I. Order 150, Relating to the Denaturing of Inedible Grease, Tallow, and Other Fat (April 6, 1908).

Board of Food and Drug Inspection: Food Inspection Decision 74, Certificates for Imported Meats and Meat-Food Products of Cattle, Sheep, Swine, and Goats. 75, The Labeling of Mixtures of Cane and Maple Sirups. 76, Dyes, Chemicals, and Preservatives in Foods. 77, Certificate and Control of Dyes Permissible for Use in Coloring Foods and Foodstuffs. 78, The Use of Labels after October 1, 1907. 79, Collection of Samples. 80, Glazed Coffee. 81, Labeling of Caramels. 82, Labeling of Coffee Produced in the Dutch East Indies. 83, The Issue of a Guaranty Based upon a Former Guaranty. 84, Amendments to Regulations 17 and 19. 85, Labeling of Bitters. 86, Original Packages: Interpretation of Regulation 2 of Rules and Regulations for the Enforcement of the Food and

Drugs Act. 87, Labeling of Corn Sirup. 88, Private Importations. 89, Amendment to Food Inspection Decision 76, Relating to the Use in Foods of Benzoate of Soda and Sulphur Dioxid. 90, The Labeling of Foods and Medicinal Mixtures for Stock and Poultry. 91, The Labeling of Mocha Coffee. 92, The Use of Copper Salts in the Greening of Foods. 93, Amendment to Regulation 34. 94, The Labeling of Medicinal and Table Waters. 95, The Use of Neutral Spirits Distilled from Beet Sugar Molasses in the Preparation of Whisky Compounds and Imitation Whiskies. 96, Serial Number Guaranty.

Bureau of Internal Revenue: Regulation No. 9, Revised July, 1907, Revised Regulations Concerning Oleomargarine, also Adulterated Butter and Process or Renovated Butter.

TEA.

SEC. 1. Importation of inferior tea prohibited; proviso. From and after May first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, it shall be unlawful for any person or persons or corporation to import or bring into the United States any merchandise as tea which is inferior in purity, quality, and fitness, for consumption to the standards provided in section three of this act, and the importation of all such merchandise is hereby prohibited. Provided, That nothing herein shall affect or prevent the importation into the United States, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, of any merchandise as tea which may be inferior in purity, quality, and fitness for consumption to the standards established by the Secretary of the Treasury, or of any tea waste, tea siftings, or tea sweepings, for the sole purpose of manufacturing theine, caffeine, or other chemical products whereby the identity and character of the original material is entirely destroyed or changed; and that importers and manufacturers who import or bring into the United States such tea, tea waste, tea siftings, or tea sweepings shall give suitable bond, to be approved as to amount and securities by the Secretary of the Treasury, conditioned that said imported material shall be only used for the purposes herein provided, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.-As amended May 16, 1908. Statutes of the United States of America, 1907-1908, Part 1, ch. 170, p. 163.

Approved March 2, 1897. United States Statutes at Large, 1895-1897, vol. 29, ch. 358, pp. 604-607.

a See Bul. 69, Revised, Part I, p. 7.