Enforcement Food and Drugs Act 21
"Under the Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906,
all unmixed distilled spirits from grain, colored and
iiavored with harmless color and iiavor, in the cus-
tomary ways, either by the charred barrel process, or
‘ by the addition of caramel and harmless iiavor, if of
potable strength and not less than 80 degrees proof,
are entitled to the name Whisky without qualification.
If the proof be less than 80 degrees, i. e., if more water -
be added, the actual proof must be stated upon the la-
bel and this requirement applies as well to the blends -
and compounds of whisky.
"Wliiskies of the same or diderent kinds, i. e., `
straight whisky, rectified whisky, redistilled whisky
and neutral spirits whisky are like substances and
mixtures of such whiskies, with or withou-t harmless
color or flavor used for purposes of coloring and fla- l
voring only, are blends under the law and must be so
‘ labeled. In labeling blends the Act requires two things
to be stated upon the label to bring the blended prod- _
uct within the exception provided by the statute;
First, the blend must be labeled, branded or tagged so
as to plainly indicate that it is a blend, in other words
that it is composed of two or more like substances,
which in the case of whisky must each be of itself a
whisky, and, Second, the word ‘blend’ must be plainly
stated upon the package in which the mixture is of-
fered for sale. A mixture of whiskies, therefore,
with or without harmless coloring or fiavoring, used
for coloring and flavoring only, is correctly labeled
‘Kerwan XVhisky. A Blend of Wl1isl