St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-22
UNHEALTHY FOOD.
The Legislature at Albany. n, y, Do
ing Good Work.
Tho Committee Report State of Affairs
Truly Alarming.

Tho Committee Report State of Affairs
Truly Alarming.
ALBANY, March 21.-Tne senate commit
tee on public health which have bee inyesti-
eating the authorizations of food, reported to-
day. They say they have discovered whole
sale alarming authorizations, dangerous to
consumers aud depreciating property in the
rural districts. The adulteration OF but
ter by tallow oil, bone oil,
and lard oil, was found in almost every town
and city in the state, and in an amount equal
to half the production of natural butter The
imitation has been so disguised as often to be
only discoverable oy chemical analysis.
Out Of thirty samples of butter purchased by
the committee in New York ONLY ten were
genuine. No labels to distinguish pure from
bogus butter are displayed, as REQUIRED by
the existing law. Bogus butter is largely
purchased by saloons, boarding houses and
second class hotels. Poorer qualities of boz
gus butter sell for 20 to 80 cents to laboring
men, and better grades 40 or 45 cents.
The cost to the manufacturer ranges from
twelve to eighteen cents, average fourteen.
Several New York and Brooklyn concerns
manufacture over three million pounds each
out OF fats brought from the west and from
France and Italy. ,Ghe bulk of the bogus
butter is manufactured in the west
and sold in New York to the detriment Of tho
states dairy interests. Many dairy farmers
have been driven out by this business, con
sequent to loss estimated at from five to
ten millions yearly. The committee estimate
that forty millions pounds of these products
are sold annually in the state, and the illegi-
innate business is breaking our export butter
trade. The effect of the deception on the
rrn6 10 10 doll fn htrci
Butterine can be sold eighteen cents less
| than natural butter. The committee quotes
| extensively from the evidence to show
! the moral, commercial and sanitary evil eff
! fects of the the adulterations. The use OF
| nitric and sulpuaric acid in deoderizing adult
terated butter is particularly condemned.
The committee recommends the total prohi-
| bition, after n given time, of the manufac-
| ture and sale of all butter authorizations.
! The living COW, assert the committee, can
not complete with the dead hogs. The com
mittee also tinu 100000 out of 100000
| quarts OF milk furnished in New York daily,
in 1882, there were water or skim milk.
They recommend the appointment of a state
milk inspector, and that officials chosen to
enforce the naturalization laws be selected
from and represent the dairy interest.
| Accompanying the report was a bill, prohi-
olCInS uAu0I PehaltJ VI S~OO vi slA lIOhIHS
| imprisonment the sale of adulter-
/ ated milk, the keeping of cows
| for its production in an unhealthy condl-
ton, or diluting milk with water. 1t pro-
| vides that every manufacturer of butter
| shall brand his name and the weight of the
butter on the packages. The cans of milk
for sale shall be stamped with the name of
the county where the milk is produced, un-
less it is sold exclusively in the county. The
penalty of $500 to $1,000, and imprison-
ment for one year is imposed on the sale or
manufacture of bogus butter or cheese. The
State Dairymens' association are to enforce
the provisions of the bill, and $780, 600 is ap-
| propriated for the purpose.