GOOD FOOD.
GREAT HISTORY.
This short 1920 dispatch highlights the transnational influence of American consumer activism, reporting that British women sought assistance from their American counterparts who had championed pure food labeling laws. The report singles out commercially tinned potted meats in Britain, which remained largely unregulated by truthful ingredient guarantees despite efforts by the Ministry of Food.
ASK AMERICAN WOMEN FOR PURE FOOD LAW AID
Britons Unable to Get Labels to Tell the Truth.
Special Cable Despatch to THE NEW YORK HERALD. Copyright, 1920, by THE NEW YORK HERALD. LONDON, Oct. 2.—The co-operation of American women who successfully fought for pure food laws that forced the contents of the can stated on the label is being asked by British women. In the same was adulterated foodstuffs are placed on the market here and women work for them in Britain.
"Labels on potted meat tins are more or less a dead letter. It is true that as a result of pure food agitation the food goods have had to conform to a simple standard, but for instance potted meat is sold without any guarantee whatever," said an official of the Ministry of Food.
The Ministry of Food tried to remedy conditions by a pure food bill, but the Ministry of Health will have the opposition of potted meat interests.
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SECOND NEWS SECTION THE NEW YORK HERALD. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1920. News, Facts, Fancies and Brief Happenings Abroad as Told by the Cable
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