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Excerpt from Report of the Committee on Markets, Prices and Costs of the New York State Food Investigating Commission: August 1, 1912 For a number of years past the increase in the cost of food products has attracted the attention of the civilized world. The British Government, the Canadian Government, and our own Federal Department at Washington have made from time to time investigations as to the rise in price levels of food products, both wholesale and retail, and have made comparisons in the relations which exist, and tend to exist, between prices of food stuffs and wages, salaries and incomes. The material so gathered is more or less fragmentary, covering principally the phase of price increase. The national government has made great strides in the last few years in the direction of improving standards of purity and correct labelling of food products through the Pure Food and Drugs Act, and has greatly improved the quality of meat food products through the Federal Meat Inspection Law, which has been in successful operation for more than a decade. In this State the sanitary conditions of milk and other food products have been closely followed up. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.