CIDERS AND ARTIFICIAL OR IMITATION CIDERS.

To comply with the requirements of the State Food Law a cider must be made entirely of unadulterated fruit juice and be sold under the name of the fruit from which it has been made. No color or flavor shall be added, unless the fact is made known by the proper label attached to each package. When artificially colored or flavored, these products must be sold as artificial, imitation or compound products or their sale will be illegal, and therefore prevented. Their sale will also be prevented if they contain any chemical preservative, except 0.008 of one per cent of sulphurous acid, which is enough only to fumigate the cask.

Forty samples of this class of beverages have been examined, eleven (or 27.5 per cent) of which proved to be adulterated. The adulterated samples contained chemical preservatives, coal-tar dyes or artificial flavor, with the presence of

RESULTS OF THE EXAMINATION OF CIDERS

Laboratory

Number.

Material and Brand
from Label.

Manufacturer or Wholesaler.

Retail Dealer or Party Who
Sent Sample for Analysis.

5386 Cider, Compound, Blackberry flavor.

5516 Cider, Compound.

W. P. Matthews & Son, Raleigh, W. P. Matthews & Son, Raleigh,

N. C.
._do_

Gast, Croft & Co., Louisville,
Ky.

Hicks Co., Wilmington, N. C...

5552 Cider, Apple, Golden Rod E. S. Shelby Vinegar Co.,

Richmond, Va.
do____

do

N. C.

do..

_do_.

Frank Jessup, Red Springs,
N. C.

Boykin Grocery Co., Wilson,
N. C.

W. M. Washington, Kinston,
N. C.

Jas. Bethea, Whitakers, N. C.

W. P. Matthews & Son, Raleigh, W. P. Matthews & Son, Raleigh,
N. C.

Christian & Winfree, Rich-
mond, Va.
do

N. C.

N. A. Collins (chief police),
Asheville, N. C.

J. R. Bergerson, Beaufort, N. C.

do.

W. P. Matthews & Son, Raleigh, W. P. Matthews & Son, Raleigh,
N. C.

T. K. Bruner, Raleigh, N. C.
J. G. Ball, Raleigh, N. C.
J. Dannenberg, Goldsboro, N. C.
J. S. Bryan, Albemarle, N. C...
B. H. Hooper, Speedwell, N. C..

Anderson & Co., Atlanta, Ga...|
Groves & Perry, Asheville, N. C. Swannanoa Lunch Room,

Asheville, N. C.

R. W. King, Raleigh, N. C.-R. C. Batchelor, Raleigh, N. C..
Haynor Mfg. Co., Norfolk, Va.

do..

the latter not stated on the label. A majority of these samples were wholly artificial or imitation products, while many of them were compound products containing a small quantity of fruit cider.

The adulteration and fraud practiced in this class of goods have been tremendous. More than 81 per cent of the samples examined in 1907 were found to be adulterated. It is gratifying to see that the per cent of adulteration this year has dropped down to 27.5 per cent.

On account of the sale of these products in territories where the sale of alcoholic beverages is illegal, like imitation beers, many of these samples were sent to the Department by officials or others for the determination of the amount of alcohol contained or supposed to be contained. The sale of them was often discontinued, either on account of the amount of alcohol found to be present or adulterants which rendered their sale in the State illegal.