In buying canned goods, one should not choose the cans because of the pictures on the labels.

One should not hesitate to require of the dealer as much information regarding the quantity and quality of canned food as regarding a purchase of food in any other form.

Influence should be used to obtain legislation that will require uniform standards for all packers in all states; uniform laws regarding labeling for all packers in all states; and labels declaring accurately the quality and quantity of the contents of the can, and giving the weight of solid materials and the measure of liquid.

References

U. S. Dept. of Agr., Farmers' Bull., 203.

U. S. Dept. of Agr., Bur. of Chem., Circ. 54, Analysis of Canned Peas and

Beans. U. S. Dept. of Commerce and Labor: Census Bull, on Manufactures, 1902.

Bull. 61, Census of Manufactures, 1905.