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... in part in a diseased , decomposed or putrid condition , and hence they would , under the term adulteration , be classed as adulterated . Years ago our ground spices were mixed with ground olive 3 33 ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING.
... in part in a diseased , decomposed or putrid condition , and hence they would , under the term adulteration , be classed as adulterated . Years ago our ground spices were mixed with ground olive 3 33 ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING.
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Leon Abel Congdon. Years ago our ground spices were mixed with ground olive pits , ground English walnut shells , ground cocoa- nut shells , spruce sawdust , ground date stones , linseed meal , etc. , but such sophistications are rarely ...
Leon Abel Congdon. Years ago our ground spices were mixed with ground olive pits , ground English walnut shells , ground cocoa- nut shells , spruce sawdust , ground date stones , linseed meal , etc. , but such sophistications are rarely ...
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... ground ; because series of analyses of tinctures made from the fluid extracts by the retail druggists show that in nine cases out of ten a standard tincture cannot be made from a fluid extract by the retail druggist . The 42 FIGHT FOR FOOD.
... ground ; because series of analyses of tinctures made from the fluid extracts by the retail druggists show that in nine cases out of ten a standard tincture cannot be made from a fluid extract by the retail druggist . The 42 FIGHT FOR FOOD.
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... ground and placed in the urn . This glazing may appeal to the ęsthetic buyer of coffee , but it is an ęsthetic fraud . The " bleaching " of inferior wheat flour - no matter what process is used , whether the nitrite or chlorine process ...
... ground and placed in the urn . This glazing may appeal to the ęsthetic buyer of coffee , but it is an ęsthetic fraud . The " bleaching " of inferior wheat flour - no matter what process is used , whether the nitrite or chlorine process ...
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... ground or pre- pared meats . Cleanliness must be ob- served in the preparation of all meats , and careful refrigeration must be im- posed . The eating of ground foods , containing meat products is a very questionable practice during ...
... ground or pre- pared meats . Cleanliness must be ob- served in the preparation of all meats , and careful refrigeration must be im- posed . The eating of ground foods , containing meat products is a very questionable practice during ...
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Page 40 - First. If, when a drug is sold under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary, it differs from the standard of strength, quality, or purity, as determined by the test laid down in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary official at the time of investigation...
Page 41 - ... Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if the contents of the 'package as originally put up shall have been removed in whole or in part and other contents shall have been placed in such package or if...
Page 32 - If it is colored, coated, polished, or powdered, whereby damage or inferiority is concealed, or if by any means it is made to appear better or of greater value than it really is.
Page 144 - In the animal body take place according to the same general laws and with the same equivalencies as in our artificial motors and in lifeless matter generally. The great law of the conservation of energy rules in the animal mechanism, whether in man, carnivora, or herbivora, just as In the engine. The body neither manufactures nor destroys energy. All that It gives out It gets from Its food and all that is supplied in Its food is sooner or later recovered in some form.
Page 23 - In a decree issued in 1481 he directed that "a funnel shall be placed in the mouth of any man or woman convicted of having sold watered milk, and the said watered milk shall be poured down the funnel until such time as a doctor shall declare that the culprit cannot be made to swallow any more without danger of death.