The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1914. CANNED GOODS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 49, 19 June 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1914. CANNED GOODS.

The London correspondent of the "Lyttelton Times" states that a proposal to amend the American Food and Drills Act has aroused interest among distributors of canned goods in Britain, who are raising considerable opposition to the proposal that all food products, including canned loods, should bear a date, printed in prominent type, showing the time of manufacture. According to the Provision and Canned Foods Trade Section of the London Chamber of Commerce, tho proposals are "unnecessary, unreasonable and quite useless" lor the protection of the consumer, and are likely to involve much expense to all concerned. Similar protests have been passed by other trade organisations. The view of the trade is that the imposition of restrictions would create unfounded prejudice in the minds oi a section oi the community, who would overlook the fact that newly canned foods arc not necessarily better than those packed, some time previously in a time of plenty and stored with the care which ensures their being offered to the public In perfect condition. If the nif.rket war* prejudiced by data-branding rogu-

lations, it is argued that packers would probably restrict their operations, even in years of plenty, to cover the bare requirements of the ensuing year's trade, and consumers would not reap the benefit of the plentiful harvests of the sea. the held and the orchard, while in times or scarcity there would bo no stocks to rely on. A material increase of prices would follow a shortage inevitably, and the poorer classes of the community would j be the greatest sufferers. Under existing conditions of inspection governing imports of foreign origin, it is believed that the interests of the pubic are adequately safeguarded.