UNCOLORED MARGARINE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 98, 18 April 1914, Page 4

UNCOLORED MARGARINE.

In France and Denmark there is practically no attempt to sell oleomargarine as butter, because in both of these countries it is strictly forbidden to color margarine yellow in imitation of butter. France, the birthplace of the margarine industry, controls and regulates its manufacture by the most rigid laws of any country in Europe. They not only prohibit the coloring, but require all manufacturers and dealers to display large signs stating that margarine is there manufactured or sold, as the case may be. Butter must not be manufactured or sold on the same premises with margarine. Most of the European countries have laws prohibiting t' i e. sale of margarine in the same store N yhere butter is sold, but in most cases this is considered unnecessarily extreme. The manufacturers of margarine claim that there would be very little demand for margarine if it were sold to the consuming public in its natural color, white, hut Denmark has proved that this fear is groundless. Though the coloring of margarine is forbidden, the per capita consumption is greater in Denmark than in any other country in the world. The population is 2,775,000, and the amount of margarine consumed last year in Denmark was 82,000,0001 b., or about 301 b per capita, and all of this was white or uncolored margarine.