7597 8778 8779 8781 8984 8783 8982 8983 8780 8984 8781 7597 8364 †Starch present. Cold Storage Ice Cream Co., Marion. 8779 1 Marion Cold Storage & Ice Cream Co. 5.6 †10.8 Two classes of lemon extract are recognized as legal-those containing 5 per cent. of oil of lemon dissolved in alcohol and free from artificial color; and the so-called "Turpeneless" goods prepared by shaking oil of lemon with dilute alcohol, or by dissolving turpeneless oil of lemon in alcohol and containing not less than 2 per cent. of citral derived from oil of lemon. The character of lemon extracts has greatly improved during the year. Of 42 samples analyzed, 25 have been up to strength and true to name, and 17 have been either below standard or mislabeled. This is a great improvement over the results reported a year ago, when 85 per cent. of the lemon extracts examined were adulterated. We have examined 55 samples of vanilla extract and found 50 to be pure and 5, or 9.1 per cent., adulterated, below the standard or misbranded. The improvement in vanilla extract is even more marked than in the case of lemon extracts. At the present time almost no goods are found on the market not true to name, unless it is on the back shelf of the grocery store, and these old goods are rapidly being thrown away to make room for better products. The character of miscellaneous extracts is improving just as is the case with the standard extracts. These products have been heretofore classed as illegal because of misbranding. At the present time the trade is conforming to the law and branding the synthetic products artificial fruit flavors instead of pure fruit extracts. SAUSAGES, PRESSED MEATS, HAMBURGER STEAK, ETC. Great improvement is noticed in the character of the prepared meats sold throughout the State. The use of preservatives has largely been abandoned. Of the 246 samples of all meat products analyzed, 222 have been pure and 24 adulterated by the use of either borax or the sulphites. |