The following tabulated and compiled list of Food Laws pending in the various states will be found to be of great value to our readers and will keep them informed on proposed Food and Sanitary Legislation. The list is as complete as could be made possible up to the date of going to Press (February 15th.) The states are arranged in alphabetical order, the Senate Bills being Recorded first, the House Bills following; wherever it was possible we have shown number of Bill, the introducer and to what committee referred and what action if any the committee has taken. The list will be corrected monthly until all the different Legislatures have adjourned. We will from time to time print in full all Bills passed and approved until all new Food Legislation is recorded in our columns. Is an act to amend Section 4 of the present Food Law of California. The Ninth Definition of adulteration reads: "Ninth. If it does not conform to the standards of purity therefor as promulgated by the Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture." HOUSE BILL NO. 179. HOUSE BILL NO. 412. Referred to Committee on Labor and Capital. Is a bill to appoint a Food and Drug Commissioner for the State of Colorado, and State Pure Food and Drug Commission. The enforcement of the food and drug laws to be taken away from the State Board of Health and placed in the hands of the Food and Drug Commissioner and the Food and Drug Commission thus created. I can see nothing wrong with the bill except it provides that the Food and Drug Commissioner shall be learned in Chemistry and Drug, Sanitary and Food Science. In my opinion there is no occasion for this limitation. It seems to me a better qualification would be that the commissioner be a practical food or drug manufacturer, but this limitation in the bill will be a bar to any practical food or drug manufacturer or any intelligent citizen becoming commissioner, unless he is a learned man in Chemistry and Drug, Sanitary and Food Science. SENATE BILL NO. 402. Is a certified milk bill. HOUSE BILL NO. 205. By the Hon. Mrs. Lafferty. Relates to the sanitation of food establishments. HOUSE BILL NO. 308. By Mr. Daily. Relates to the fixing of standards for weights and meas ures. "All commodities put up in bags, sacks, boxes, barrels, bales, cans, bottles, carton, packages, or otherwise, offered for sale or sold within this state shall have plainly stamped upon the top or side thereof the net quantity of weight or measure of the commodity contained therein. Any person, firm or corporation who shall falsely stamp any weight or measure of commodity other than the true net weight or measure thereof upon the outside of any bag, sack, box, barrel, bale, can, bottle, carton or package, shall be liable to a fine not less than $50, not more than $500 for each offense." HOUSE BILL NO. 320. Is a bill to establish standards of purity for foods and food products, and is the same as S. B. No. 218. HOUSE BILL NO. 421. By Mr. Hayden. Relates to the sale of oleomargarine and filled cheese. HOUSE BILL 543. Is a certified milk bill. Connecticut. HOUSE BILL NO. 54. Relates to bake shops and the sanitation thereof. HOUSE BILL NO. 84. Relates to sanitation. HOUSE BILL 93. Relates to meat and meat food products. HOUSE BILL NO. 149. Referred to Committee on Agriculture. Requires net weight or measure to be stated on all packages containing food. (BILL NOT NUMBERED.) Meat and Meat Food Products. Relates to the inspection of Meat and Meat Food Products. Idaho. HOUSE BILL NO. 140. Relates to commercial feeding stuffs. Indiana. SENATE BILL NO. 302. Referred to Committee on Cities and Towns. Requires all commodities to be sold by weight or measure and reads as follows: "Be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of Indiana that the common council of every city shall have the power to enact an ordinance to authorize and require the sale of hay, wood, coal, coke, oil, kerosene, gasoline, meat, poultry, fish, butter, oleomargarine, cheese, lard, milk, vegetables, fruit, and all other articles of food or provisions of common use and consumption to be made by weight or measure and to prohibit the sale of any or all of such articles otherwise than by weight or measure, and to regulate the selling and weighing or measuring of any and all such articles." HOUSE BILL NO. 267. Referred to Committee on Public Health. Is a bill attempting to give the State Board of Health power to make standards. It says: "The State Board of Health can adopt such rules as may be necessary to enforce this act, and shall adopt rules and regulations regulating the minimum standards for food and drugs, defining specific adulterations and declaring the proper methods of collecting and examining drugs and articles of food, and the violation of said rules shall be punished, on conviction, as set forth in section 10 of this act." The Board of Health can fix any standard they please under this law and punish a violation of the standard by a fine. Iowa. SENATE BILL NO. 173. By Mr. Clark. Is a sanitary regulation and will only affect those maintaining food manufacturing establishments in the State of Iowa. Kansas. SENATE BILL NO. 135. Referred to Committee of the Whole Senate. Is a bill to amend the existing food law of Kansas as follows: First. Section 3 of the 266th chapter of the Session Laws of 1907 is amended as to give the State Board of Health the power to establish standards of quality, purity and strength for all foods, drinks and drugs sold in Kansas, and makes it an offense punishable by a fine to violate any such standards when established. Second. Section 7 of Chap. 266 of the Session Laws of 1907 is amended as follows: (1) So as to make the National Formulary official at time of sale, one of the standards for drugs. (2) It amends the fourth definition of adulteration so as to read: "If it be mixed, colored, powdered, coated, stained or otherwise treated in a manner whereby damage or inferiority is concealed, or whereby it is made to appear better than it really is. Third. It amends Section 8 of Chap. 266 of the Session Laws of 1907 as follows: (1) It exempts physicians' prescriptions, labeled with directions for use, from the provisions requiring a statement of the presence of certain drugs. (2) It amends Section 8 so as to provide that an article of food shall be deemed to be misbranded if the label "omit to state the presence of any artificial coloring matter contained therein." This would require all candy and soda water and all articles of food or drink containing artificial color to state that fact on the label. (3) It subjects all proprietary foods and drinks to the provisions of any rules or regulations the State Board of Health may make. Fourth. It amends Section 11 of Chapter 266, Session Laws of 1907, by increasing the number of food and drug inspectors. Fifth. It amends Section 14 of Chap. 266, Session Laws of 1907, so as to make the standards established by the United States Secretary of Agriculture the standards of Kansas only until the State Board of Health of Kansas establishes stand ards and publishes them, which time the Board of Health standards shall be the standards of Kansas, and shall be obeyed under penalty of a fine. The law has other slight immaterial amendments. SENATE BILL NO. 140. By Mr. Hunter. Is a bill to regulate the sale of flour and define the different grades. SENATE BILL NO. 283. By Mr. Standard. Relates to dairy products and says that Ice Cream shall conform to the National Food Law, but does not fix any standard. SENATE BILL NO. 411. By Committee on Temperance. Relates to non-intoxicating liquors containing alcohol It forbids any beverage containing any alcohol whatever from being sold in the state. A strict construction of it would prohibit the sale of soda water, because soda water contains at least a trace of alcohol. HOUSE BILL NO. 240. By Mr. Kiehbil. Is a bill to prohibit the sale of any beverage containing any alcohol whatever. Under this bill practically all non-alcoholic drinks, such as soda water, ginger ale, etc., would be prohibited, because under a decision of the Iowa Supreme Court the words "any alcohol whatever" would be held to include even a trace, and practically all soft drinks, contain at least a trace of alcohol. About same as S. B. 411. HOUSE BILL NO. 294. By Committee on Hygiene and Public Health. It is the same as Kansas Senate Bill No. 135. HOUSE BILL NO. 441. By Mr. R. J. Hopkins, Jan. 27, 1909. Referred to Committee on Live Stock. Relates to concentrated feeding stuffs. HOUSE BILL NO. 437. Is a bill to prevent bleaching of flour. Relates to dairy products. Massachusetts. SENATE BILL NO. 92. Relates to dairy products. HOUSE BILL NO. 548. Relates to dairy products. HOUSE BILL NO. 743. Jan. 26, 1909. Relates to dairy products. HOUSE BILL NO. 744. Jan. 26, 1909. Relates to dairy products. HOUSE BILL NO. 745. Jan. 26, 1909. Relates to dairy products. HOUSE BILL NO. 747. Jan. 26, 1909. Relates to dairy products. HOUSE BILL NO. 807. Petition of Mr. Fay, Jan. 26, 1909. Referred to Committee on Mercantile Affairs. Is a bill to compel any person, firm or corporation operating a soda fountain for the sale of soda water to obtain a license for one year. The license fee to be $10 for each draught arm or similar device used in drawing soda water. HOUSE BILL NO. 865. Relates to the sanitation of food producing establishments. Relates to the sale of vinegar. HOUSE BILL NO. 1213. Relates to the inspection of vinegar. HOUSE BILL NO. 1215. Jan. 28, 1909. Relates to the sale of vinegar and will affect corn sugar vinegar. Maine. SENATE BILL NO. 39. Relates to dairy products. SENATE BILL NO. 108. Relates to fertilizers, commercial feeding stuffs and agricultural seeds. By Mr. Droste. Establishes standards of strength and purity for food prod ucts. Montana. HOUSE BILL NO. 285. By Mr. Hutchinson. Is a general food, drink and drug law. The 8th definition of adulteration reads as follows: "If it contains any added antiseptic or preservative substances except common salt, salt petre, cane sugar, vinegar, spices or smoked food, the natural process of the smoking process or other preservatives authorized by the State Board of Health, and no preservatives of any kind shall be used in quantities greater than the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health shall designate.' Section 5. Requires that foods shall be sold by weights and measures. Section 10. Gives the State Board of Health power to fix standards and makes it a fine to violate any such standards so fixed. Nebraska. SENATE BILL NO. 140. By Mr. Randall. HOUSE BILL NO. 7. Relates to dairy products. Is a Sanitation Bill. SENATE BILL NO. 163. HOUSE BILL NO. 10. Is a bill relating to dairy products. HOUSE BILL NO. 16. Is a bill relating to dairy products. HOUSE BILL. By Mr. Howes. Relates to commercial feeding stuffs. Minnesota. SENATE BILL NO. 181. By Mr. Bedford. Makes it an offense to pack any food in any box, barrel, bottle, or package that has been used before, unless the same is thoroughly fumigated or cleaned prior to the repacking. SENATE BILL NO. 231. By Mr. Anderson Relates to the salary, etc., of the Dairy and Food Commissioner and to dairy products. SENATE BILL NO. 272. By Mr. White. Relates to the sanitation of food producing establishments. SENATE BILL NO. 315. Relates to process butter. HOUSE BILL NO. 153. By Mr. Mork, Jan. 19, 1909. Referred to Committee on Public Health and Pure Food. Is a bill relating to agricultural seeds and commercial feeding stuffs. HOUSE BILL NO. 404. Relates to the sanitation of food producing establishments. Missouri. SENATE BILL NO. 146. By Mr. Krone. Is an amendment to the food law of Missouri. By Mr. Buck, Jan. 27, 1909. Referred to Committee on Miscellaneous Subjects. Relates to vinegar and provides for inspection. This bill has passed the Senate. SENATE BILL NO. 259. By Mr. Miller (by request), Feb. 8, 1909. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Amends section 8 of chapter 33 of the Compiled Laws of Nebraska of 1907. The said section 8 is the section of the present food law relating to misbranding. It requires every food product to be labeled with a statement of the city and state, territory, place, or country in which said article is manufactured or produced. This is clearly unconstitutional. It requires a statement of the proportion of alcohol in any article of food or beverage to be stated on the label. It requires net contents, weight or measure, to be stated on the label of all goods in package form, other than canned goods and packages put up by the retailer. It requires the true quantity to be stated on the container of all liquids other than medicine. It makes it illegal to put any presents, premiums, or prizes in_packages. It does not recognize that an article sold under a distinctive name should be exempt from the misbranding feature of the law, unless said article contains a statement of the place where it has been manufactured or produced, and the ingredients of the same are stated on the label. This would affect private formulas and proprietary preparations. SENATE BILL NO. 262. By Mr. Banning. Feb. 8, 1909. Referred to Committee on Agriculture. Relates to dairy products. HOUSE BILL NO 188. By Mr. Leigigh, Jan. 26, 1909. Referred to Committee on Miscellaneous Subjects. Is a bill to regulate the sale of vinegar and makes standards for same. HOUSE BILL NO. 196. By Mr. Miller, Jan. 28. 1909. Referred to Committee on Agriculture. Relates to the sale of agricultural seeds and commercial feeding stuffs, etc. HOUSE BILL NO. 222. By Mr. Kraus, Jan. 29, 1909. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Is a general food, drug and drink law. It is intended to repeal the present food law of Nebraska. HOUSE BILL NO. 303. By Mr. Howman, Feb. 5, 1909. Referred to Committee on Medical Societies. It is a bill to amend the present food law of Nebraska. Section 9820 provides that the report of the department shall be printed and published and that the deputies shall furnish to the clerk of each county of the state certified lists of all adulterated foods, food products, liquors, beverages, remedies and medicines, as found by any analysis, showing the name and brand of the article, the manufacturer and the name of the injurious adulterant. Section 9821 Proposes to give the deputies power to determine whether an article of food is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of the act and on their own finding of facts and their own interpretation of the law. HOUSE BILL NO. 310. By Mr. Killen, Feb. 6, 1909. Referred to Committee on Medical Societies. It is identical with Senate Bill No. 259. It requires every food product to be labeled with a statement of the city, and state, territory, place or country in which said article is manufactured or produced. It requires a statement of the proportion of alcohol in any article of food or beverage to be stated on the label. It requires net contents, weight or measure to be stated on the label, of all goods in package form, other than canned goods and packages put up by the retailer. It requires the true quantity to be stated on the container of all liquids other than medicine. It makes it illegal to put any presents, premiums or prizes in packages. Sixth It does not recognize that an article sold under a distinctive name should be exempt from the misbranding features of the law, unless said article contains a statement of the place where it has been manufactured or produced, and the ingredients of the same are stated on the label. HOUSE BILL NO. 236. Referred to Committee on Public Health. Is a bill to establish standards for foods for the state of New Hampshire. It fixes a standard for the following items: Lard, Milk, Milk Fat, Butter, Cream, Cheese, Flour, Gluten Flour, Corn Meal, Oatmeal, Rye Flour, Buckwheat Flour, Preserves and Jam, Jelly. Prohibits Coal Tar Color and Saccharin in Jellies, Jams and Pickles. Prohibits coal tar color and saccharin in Pickles, Sweet Pickles and Catsup. Establishes standards for: Sugar Syrup, Maple Syrup, Honey, Allspice, Pimento, Cayenne Pepper, Paprika, Ground Cinnamon, Cloves, Ginger, Limed Ginger, Mace, Ground Mustard, Prepared Mustard, French Mustard, Nutmeg, Pepper, Black Pepper, Flavoring Extracts, White Pepper, Almond Extract, Anise Extract, Celery Seed Extract, Cassia Extract, Cinnamon Extract, Clove Extract, Ginger Extract, Lemon Extract, Oil of Lemon, Nutmeg Extract, Peppermint Extract, Rose Extract, Savory Extract, Spearmint Extract, Sweet Basil Extract, Sweet Marjoram Extract, Thyme Extract, Tonka Extract, Vanilla Extract, Wintergreen Extract, Olive Oil, Cottonseed Oil, Tea. Chocolate. Coffee, Sweet Chocolate, Cocoa, Sweet Cocoa, Apple Juice, Sweet Cider, Wine, Dry Wine, Fortified Wine, Sweet Wine, Sparkling Wine, Modified Wine, Malt Liquor, Beer, Lager Beer, Malt Beer, Ale, Porter, Distilled Spirit, Alcohol, New Whisky, Whisky, Rye Whisky, Bourbon Whisky, Corn Whisky, Blended Whisky, Scotch Whisky, Irish Whisky, New Rum, Rum, New Brandy, Brandy, Cognac, Vinegar, Cider Vinegar, Wine Vinegar, Malt Vinegar, Sugar Vinegar, Glucose Vinegar, Spirit Vinegar, Table Salt, Celery Salt, Baking Powder, Sausage, Mincemeat. Gives an inspector power to examine food products for the purpose of detecting adulteration. New Jersey. SENATE BILL NO. 39. SENATE BILL NO. 47. Referred to Committee on Public Health. New York. SENATE BILL NO. 1. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Is an act to consolidate the Agricultural Laws of New York. SENATE BILL NO. 81. By Mr. Cobb, Jan. 8, 1909. Referred to Committee on Codes. Is a bill to amend sections 580 and 581 of the penal code of New York as follows: "580. Using false weights, measures, etc-A person who, by himself or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of another, uses a weight, measure, or other apparatus that is false or that has not been sealed by a sealer of weights and measures within one year, for determining the quantity of any commodity, or articles of merchandise, or sells or exposes for sale less than the quantity he represents, or |