German food book

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The first edition of the German food book , 1905.

The German Food Book is a historical collection of definitions and trade usages for food from 1905. A second edition appeared in 1909, a third in 1922. The book was initially published by the German Association of Food Manufacturers and Traders , in of its last edition on behalf of Valentin Gerlach's association . The task and content of the book are comparable to the current German food book and the Austrian food book Codex Alimentarius Austriacus .

Emergence

On May 19, 1901, representatives of the German food industry and the food trade founded the Federation of German Food Manufacturers and Traders in Frankfurt am Main as the first joint umbrella organization for the two branches of the food industry . At its second general meeting on December 7, 1902, the association decided to publish a common set of rules for the industry. In the years 1904 and 1905 a total of 24 meetings took place in which proposals for principles and guiding principles were worked out for the individual food groups (such as bread and baked goods or meat products) and articles of daily use. These were discussed in joint consultations with chambers of agriculture and commerce, organizations of the food industry, research institutes, chemists' associations and imperial offices and transferred to an overall work. As a result, the German Food Book was published in the autumn of 1905 by Carl Winter's publishing house in Heidelberg. Technical and economic developments were to be mapped by the fact that further resolutions could be worked out at the annual general meetings of the association, which were then incorporated into the new editions.

construction

The German Food Book is divided into three parts:

  • The first part contains general principles for the assessment of foodstuffs and consumer goods , for example for the production and storage, for hygiene and for the declaration of additives.
  • The second part contains the stipulations for the individual food groups that were decided upon in various meetings of the Federation of German Food Manufacturers and Traders.
  • The third part reproduces laws, ordinances, notices and decisions of the Reich courts relating to food traffic in the current version of the book.

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  • 1905: German food book . Published by the Federation of German Food Manufacturers and Traders eV Heidelberg: Carl Winters University Bookstore .
  • 1909: German food book. Second, often changed and enlarged edition . Published by the Federation of German Food Manufacturers and Traders eV Heidelberg: Carl Winters University Bookstore.
  • 1922: German food book. Third, often changed and increased edition . On behalf of the Association of German Food Manufacturers and Traders, edited and published by Dr. V. Gerlach . Heidelberg: Carl Winters University Bookstore.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jutta Grüne (1994): Beginnings of state food control in Germany . Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 187-88.
  2. ^ Association of German Food Manufacturers and Traders e. V. (Ed.) (1905): German Food Book . Carl Winter publishing house, Heidelberg.
  3. ^ Karl von Buchka (1914): The food industry . Available online at Wikisource .