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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-opporations. 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 deserving 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.

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THIS JOURNAL'S MISSION. The widespread interest and urgent need in food legislation during the last few years has led to the recent enactment of Pure Food and Drug Laws in a number of States where such legislation did not previously exist, and at the present time drastic measures are adopted in forty States and Territories of the United States and Hawaii, the Philippine Islands and Porto Rico to enforce regulations relating to the purity and wholesomeness of food.

The fact that man's duty is to improve worldly conditions, this journal accepts.

No. 1.

as the psychological moment for undertaking a work of vital importance in assisting the enforcement of the nation's Pure Food and Drug laws.

A wider publicity of these laws will be given, information regarding same furnished and unbiased opinion rendered.

The consumers of foods and drugstuffs most entirely depending upon the dispensers as to the constituent character of same need no longer fear deleterious articles.

Since success crowned the untiring efforts of pure food advocates and legislators, additionally-the nation's co-operation in this work is desired to lighten the burden of those carrying on this work, even though sacrificing their own. self-interests.

Let us guard the nation's health and strength and not the strength nor health of the self-styled chosen few. The future issues of this journal will endeavor to outline the many benefits to be reaped from pure foods and drugs. Commercially, it will raise the standard of American products abroad, and the heretofore scientifically prescribed food and remedy will manifest their true worth.

That ignorance of the law excuses no one is an old maxim, but is equally applicable to the new as well as the old laws.

The Pure Food and Drug Laws are comparatively new, and additional laws and changes in existing laws are being made every day.

Knowledge of these laws is imperatively necessary to the manufacturer, the wholesaler and the retailer for two rea

sons.

First. Because the manufacture or sale of food or drug products under conditions prohibited by law eventually

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