‘ _ Enforcement Food and Drugs Act — 17
_ a food act, if it means anything, means that the public shall be
bs guarded against risks. .
5* , T LIQUORS.
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_ The Kentucky Food and Drugs Act of 1908 provided that
“` the sections with respect to liquors would not be effective until
*6 on and after January 1, 1909. This part of the law, therefore,
H has been effective only a little over a year. We found difficulty
>f at the very start in arranging to enforce this part of the law.
is It was necessary, first, to promulgate standards and regulations.
While the law provides that the Director is empowered to adopt `
gt and fix standards of purity, quality or strength when such
d standards are necessary or not specified or fixed by the Act, it
S also provides that when such standards differ from those legally ,
K; adopted by the United States Department of Agriculture, the
.f Director shall arrange for a conference with the United States
g Department of Agriculture for the purpose of arriving at, if _
*5 possible, a uniform standard. The law provides further that in
it the case of final dispute, the question shall be determined by
.y the courts, and also provides that when the standard of any
id food product has been determined by the Supreme Court of the
B- United States, such standards shall govern in the enforcement
L of the provisions of the act.
3_ It was hoped that standards would be adopted by the
B United States Department of Agriculture under the Food and
l` Drugs Act of 1906, before our act pertaining to liquors went
` into effect, and that the standards might be such that they
is could be adopted by this State, for the enforcement of the law
¤· with respect to these products should follow closely the action
>f of the Federal Government, as the internal revenue laws em-
>f power the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to prescribe rules
is and regulations for the branding of such products.
The question of proper branding of distilled spirits has
B_ been actively under consideration by both State and Federal
B_ authorities for a number of years. The subject was investigated
_d and reported upon by the Joint Committee on Food Standards
* from the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists and the
·d Association of State and National Food and Dairy Depart-
it ments; by the chemists of the Bureau of Internal Revenue,
a- working in connection with the field service of that Bureau
is and in connection with the trade ; and by the chemists of the Bu-
n- reau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, and the
to active work done by these two Bureaus was, in many ways, the
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