Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906, and amendments of August 23, 1912 and March 3, 1913 : with the rules and regulations for the enforcement of the Act, food inspection decisions, selected court decisions, digest of decisions, opinions of the Attorney General and appendix / compiled by C. A. Gwinn, under the direction of the Solicitor.

  • United States. Department of Agriculture. Office of the General Counsel
Date:
1914
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Credit: Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906, and amendments of August 23, 1912 and March 3, 1913 : with the rules and regulations for the enforcement of the Act, food inspection decisions, selected court decisions, digest of decisions, opinions of the Attorney General and appendix / compiled by C. A. Gwinn, under the direction of the Solicitor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Regulation 18 provides that if the name of the manufacturer and the place of manufacture be given, they must be the true name and the true place. It would appear, therefore, that the use of a fictitious name in such a manner that it would be understood to be the name of the manufacturer would be clearly a violation of regulation 18. It is apparent that the provisions of regulation 18 will not be ful- filled by the nominal incorporation of a fictitious firm. The regula- tions require that goods must be actually manufactured by the firm represented on the label as the manufacturer. When a proper name, other than that of the manufacturer, is placed upon a label it must not be used in the possessive. For instance, CHARLES GASTON'S OLIVE OIL BORDEAUX can only be properly used on an oil manufactured by Charles Gaston at Bordeaux. The same is true if the designation GASTON'S OLIVE OIL BORDEAUX be employed. On the other hand, the word Gaston might be used in an ad- jective sense, and not in the possessive case as qualifying the words olive oil, in a manner that would indicate that it represented a brand and not a manufacturer, as GASTON OLIVE OIL. Or, OLIVE OIL, GASTON BRAND. In such case, however, neither given name nor initials should be employed. The word Gaston should be in the same type as olive oil and in equal prominence, thus forming a part of the label. The phrase Olive Oil, Charles Gaston Brand may be used, in which case the name of the actual manufacturer should appear, in order that no false indication of the name of the person or firm manufacturing the product may be given. F. I. D. 47 (Dec 13, 1906). FLAVORING EXTRACTS. The percentage of alcohol is not required to be stated in the case of extracts sold for the preparation of foods only. It is held, however, that extracts which are sold or used for any medicinal purpose what- ever should have the percentage of alcohol stated on the label. Numerous inquiries are received regarding the proper designation of products made in imitation of flavoring extracts or in imitation of flavors. Such products include Imitation vanilla flavor, which is made from such products as tonka extract, coumarin, and vanillin,
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