PREFACE IN the following pages of this little book, the writer has brought together, in a popular manner, the various problems of the big fight for food with the hope that the facts presented may be of benefit to the public. All available sources of the highest authority have been consulted. So much has been published in our popular magazines tending toward the sensational, that it has become necessary to put the problem in its true light for the student, doctor, and consumer. All matter of sensational character has been eliminated as much as possible. It is necessary that the public at large know something about the food which they daily consume. No problem is of more importance. All technical matter such as chemical equations and nomencla ture which the average reader cannot understand, unless he has taken a course in chemistry, has been omitted. This book is not intended to replace the large reference works on foods, nutrition or economics, but if the writer has stimulated interest for further study, he has been amply repaid for his effort. Topeka, Kansas July, 1916 THE AUTHOR CONTENTS Fight for Food Has Many Angles. II. THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE FOOD AND Food Labels not New; Old Time Penalties Inflicted on Violators; First Official Food Inspection; Federal Food Law Enacted; States Enacting Food Laws After Federal Law; State Official Bodies Charged with III. THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE ADULTERA- Crude Adulteration of Foods and Drugs tracts and Flavors; Imitation Lemonade; V. FOOD AND DRUGS-THEIR RELATION TO Present Sanitary Food Laws not Adequate; Technicalities of Food and Drugs May be Indirectly a Menace to Public Health; "Cleanliness next to Godliness"; Poisons Should be Excluded; Accumulated Poisons; Organic Diseases Increasing; Medical In- spection of Employees in Food Establish- ments Urged; Typhoid and Milk Utensils; Dirty Hands and Food; Substandard and Deteriorated Drugs; "Patent" Medicines Milk Generally Consumed in Raw State; Epidemics Traced to Milk; Typhoid Fever; "Watering" Milk; Diphtheria and Scarla- tina; Septic Sore Throat; Tuberculosis or Consumption; Sediment or Dirt in Milk; Dairyman's "Eleven Commandments"; VII. THE SANITARY HANDLING OF FOODS IN Indispensable from a Health and Economic Standpoint; to Prevent Undesirable Organ- |