Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-01-06
POISON IN SOAPS.
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Authorizations In All Sorts OF Articles Used
In the Household.

in the Household.
The case of the Camden wash r.
woman who is suffering from blood
poisoning throug using bad soap has
developed symptoms of erysipelas. and
uncer ain;y exists as to the outcome.
Recent y she purchased quantity of
cheap soap from retail dealer in
Camden, and used it while suffering
from a cut on the left hand. Soon aft
erward her body was covered with
sores, and she is now confined to her
home. President Amerling, of the So
ciety for the Prevention of Food Adult
iteration, investigated the matter, and
found that the soap was purchased
from a Philadelphia wholesale house.
He brought the woman's case to the
attention of the proprietors. They
expressed ignorance of the impure ma.
ture of the article, destroyed the
stock they had on hand and notified
the manufacturers of the stuff, who
are established in Brooklyn, N. Y. Not
only this; but they visited the sick
woman and made arrangement s to have
her cared for.
The Society for the Prevention of
Food Adulteration is pushing its inves-
LEGATIONS into the most common meth
DDS of adulteration. The results thus
far obtained would seem to indicate
that with but very few exceptions
every manufactured article that enters
into domestic food consumption is
more or less adulterated. During one
week President Amerling had secured
the affidavits of twenty-six bakers.
confectioners and noodle-makers who,
under oat say that they have been
using chrome yellow continuously for
varying periods. In over two dozen
samples of ice-cream analysed, not
one was found pure, or composed of
the ingredients the consumers supposed
they were purchasing. White glue.
gelatine and poisonous coloring matter
were freely used.
A report just prepared by four
chemists employed by the society
deals largely with the composition of
articles entering into the consumption
of every household, such as chocolate,
coffee. coffee essence, spices, mustard
and pickles, and shows that in many
cases the stuff is complete imitation.
and has nothing in it of the essential
element for which it was purchased.
With some difficulty President Am
erling has become possessed of ierat-
ure which unblushingly advertises
poisonous adult Grants for the use of
bakers and confectioners. One speci-
men is the printed price-list, of an inn
porting and manufacturing drug
house, Wholesale dealers in bankers
confectioners' and bottlers' supplies,
on Duane street, New York. In it is
advertised, for the use of the trade,
acetic, citric, salycilic, sulphuric and
tartaric acids, almond paste (Which
President Amerling states is almost
entirely composed of ammonia, borax,
"butter" for bakers and confectioners,
cream tartar, aniline, carmine and
cochineal for coloring, chrome yellow
for lemon, orange, raspberry, sarsa-
parilla, sugar, turmeric and ultra
marine blue tints, camphor and willow
charcoal. The same house, advertises
similar list in a Philadelphia journal
devoted to the confectionery trade.
Another firm, located on Greenwich
street, New York, advertises analine
crystals, carmine, strawberry and
chrome yellow coloring matter for
saltwater, jellies and canned goods.
Philadelphia Record.