THIS ORGAN DEVOTED

SOLELY TO THE

ENFORCEMENT OF THE

NATION'S PURE FOOD

AND DRUG LAWS.

---EDITOR.

Suggestion !!

Good money is made by the Government in which you

have implicit faith and confidence.

Good goods are made by

manufacturers who are willing to stake their reputations and

money on the quality of goods they offer you through their

advertisements in this journal. There is strength in co-oppora

tions.

If any of your competitors manufacture adulterated

articles, or articles not as represented, you are in a position to

know the only way to obliterate unfair competition and to avoid

the danger of falling into the same channel, is to give people the kind of an article in accordance with pure food and drug laws. Co-operate and communicate with this journal, in time we will

have conquered pure food law violators and the product deserv

ing patronage will get it, the people's health promoted, your

sales increased and the pure food law violator banished.

The American Pure Food and Drug Journal,

Cincinnati, Ohio.

VOL. I.

JANUARY, 1909.

No. 1.

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THIS JOURNAL'S MISSION. That ignorance of the law excuses no The widespread interest and urgent one is an old maxim, but is equally apneed in food legislation during the last plicable to the new as well as the old few years has led to the recent enact- laws. ment of Pure Food and Drug Laws in a The Pure Food and Drug Laws are number of States where such legislation comparatively new, and additional laws did not previously exist, and at the pres- and changes in existing laws are being ent time drastic measures are adopted in made every day. forty States and Territories of the Knowledge of these laws is imperaUnited States and Hawaii, the Philip- tively necessary to the manufacturer, the pine Islands and Porto Rico to enforce wholesaler and the retailer for two rearegulations relating to the purity and wholesomeness of food.

First. Because the manufacture or The fact that man's duty is to improve sale of food or drug products under conworldly conditions, this journal accepts ditions prohibited by law eventually

sons.

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