Annual report of the State Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity of Massachusetts. 1882/83 supplWright and Potter, 1883 |
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... detect , and very profitable ) generally fail of their object , since they come too late to be of any benefit : by the time the law is on the statute - book the old adulteration has been forgotten , and a new one has taken its place . A ...
... detect , and very profitable ) generally fail of their object , since they come too late to be of any benefit : by the time the law is on the statute - book the old adulteration has been forgotten , and a new one has taken its place . A ...
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... chemist , the analyst must be well acquainted with the practical use of the micro- scope , as this instrument will enable him to detect many adulterations which it would be almost impossible to find without 1882. ] 11 ADULTERATION OF FOOD .
... chemist , the analyst must be well acquainted with the practical use of the micro- scope , as this instrument will enable him to detect many adulterations which it would be almost impossible to find without 1882. ] 11 ADULTERATION OF FOOD .
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... Detection , " gives a long list of articles found by himself and others in food . Some of these are hardly likely to occur . at the present time ; others seem to have been copied from one book to another , without comment or inquiry as ...
... Detection , " gives a long list of articles found by himself and others in food . Some of these are hardly likely to occur . at the present time ; others seem to have been copied from one book to another , without comment or inquiry as ...
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... detected by igniting five grams of the arrow - root , and weighing the ash . The ash of a pure sample of arrow - root should not exceed a few tenths of a per cent . If the ash is larger than this 20 [ July , DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH .
... detected by igniting five grams of the arrow - root , and weighing the ash . The ash of a pure sample of arrow - root should not exceed a few tenths of a per cent . If the ash is larger than this 20 [ July , DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH .
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... detected by the microscope , a pure arrow - root being used for comparison . The most common adulteration is potato ... detect them ; and all that can be done is to see that the article is free from excess of fusel oil . The most ready ...
... detected by the microscope , a pure arrow - root being used for comparison . The most common adulteration is potato ... detect them ; and all that can be done is to see that the article is free from excess of fusel oil . The most ready ...
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acres addi additional adulteration Albuminoid Albuminoid ammonia alum alumina ammonia amount analysis AQUEDUCT article of food bath-tub Board of Health Boston bread BRISTOL COUNTY brook butter cane-sugar cask of lime cent Chlorine Cochituate color Commissioners contain copper COUNTY cream of tartar detected disease dish estimate examined eyes faucet filter Fixed residue flavor flour Free ammonia frequently gallons gals genuine give glasses glucose grains grams gypsum horse increased injurious instrument Lake Cochituate lepers lèpre Leprosy letters London manhole manufacture Massachusetts Measured Water meat method microscope miles milk Mystic Lake Nahant NANTUCKET COUNTY pickles pipe polariscope polarization pond present printed Prof pure Reports of Water Reservoir sewage sewers sirup sold solution Somerville sources specific gravity starch starch-sugar Sudbury river sugar sulphate sulphuric acid supply tion tional Total solids vinegar W. R. Nichols Water Boards Water Company water-closet water-shed weight wine
Popular passages
Page xix - If, when sold under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, it differs from the standard of strength, quality or purity laid down therein. 2. If, when sold under or by a name not recognized in the United States Pharmacopeia, but which is found in some other pharmacopoeia or other standard work on Materia Medica, it differs materially from the standard of strength, quality or purity laid down in such work. 3. If its strength or purity fall below the professed standard under which...
Page xix - An article shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of this act, — (a.) In the case of drugs, — (1.) If, when sold under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia...
Page xix - If it is an imitation of, or is sold under the name of, another article ; (5.) If it consists wholly or in part of a diseased, decomposed, putrid or rotten animal or vegetable substance, whether manufactured or not ; or, in the case of milk, if it is the produce of a diseased animal...
Page xix - drug," as used in this Act, shall include all medicines and preparations recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary for internal or external use, and any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used for the cure, mitigation, or prevention of disease of either man or other animals. The term
Page xix - If its strength, quality, or purity falls below the professed standard under which it is sold. (b) In the case of food: (1) If any substance or substances have been mixed with it, so as to lower or depreciate, or injuriously affect its quality, strength, or purity; (2) If any inferior or cheaper substance, or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for it...
Page xix - ... animal; (6.) If it is colored, coated, polished or powdered, whereby damage is concealed, or if it is made to appear better or of greater value than it really is; (7.) If it contains any added poisonous ingredient, or any ingredient which may render it injurious to the health of a person consuming it.
Page xx - Every person manufacturing, exposing or offering for sale, or delivering to a purchaser, any drug or article of food included in the provisions of this Act, shall furnish to any person interested, or demanding the same, who shall apply to him for the purpose, and shall tender him the value of the same, a sample sufficient for the analysis of any such drug or article of food which is in his possession.
Page xx - ... and shall prepare rules and regulations with regard to the proper methods of collecting and examining drugs and articles of food.
Page xx - Provided, That the State Board of Health may, with the approval of the Governor, from time to time declare certain articles or preparations to be exempt from the provisions of this Act: And provided further, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to mixtures or compounds recognized as ordinary articles of food, provided that the same are not injurious to health, and that the articles are distinctly labeled as a mixture, stating the components of the mixture.
Page 139 - The system of distribution, whether by gravity, stand-pipe, direct pumping, reservoir, or otherwise. 25. The condition of water debt and sinking fund. 26. How the effluent water is now got rid of. 27. Into what stream or body of water it finally flows. 28. What protection against .impurity of present source not now provided Is desired. 29. What additional expense such protection would involve, and to whom. state board to 124. The state board shall, on application from the furnish blanks. '