Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-01-05
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frightened as the pale young clerk
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ADULTERATiON OF FOOD.

Various Articles Made Tempting to IN.
Eye by Artificial Means.
The most universally colored article is
butter, and it may with great confidence
be asserted that there is hardly pound
of butter sold at the present time in
this country which has not been doc. =.
tored, mostly by the aid of harmless
vegetable coloring matter-annatto-in
order to impart to such butter rich
golden color. Butter naturally varies
much in color, according to the season
the breed of the COW and mainly its
food, and it is bus rarely the natural
butter possesses the color to which the
public is now accustomed. The desire
of those who introduced this admixture
was obviously to make their produce
appear richer and more enticing to the
eye than nature had intended. One
after the other the rest of the butter
merchants had to follow suit.
Milk is generally colored by the milk.
man. Here the object is plain. Water
ed milk assumes, as is we'll known, the
tell-tale sky blue color which at once
betrays that the milk has BEEN tamper.
ed with. To hide this the blue milk is
again artifcially provided, by means of
a yellow solution or color, with q rich.
creamy appearance. To hide the origi-
nal fraud the second deception is prac-
ticed.
Mustard, especially that which has
been adulterated with four-whch, in
consequence, also would look sickly
pale-is brought up to the original color
of genuine mustard by the addition of
tumeric, and similar practice is be.
ginning to be adopted in the pepper
trade.
Sausages, both meat and skin, are
dyed with aniline colors for the pur-
pose of hiding the color of unhealthy
or stale meat which may have been used
Jams. especially plum jams. are gener-
ally dyed with analine colors, and sugar
confectionery is hardly ever without
with burnt sugar, as also are brandies
and WHISTLES.
1t must be admitted that in by far the
majority of these cases the color used
is entirely harmless and has no influence
upon the health Of the consumer.
Yet there are number of analine col.
ors which are positively poisonous,
even when pure. Such colors are picrlc
acid and it's salts. Martius yellow,
methvien blue, dInitrocresol
and aurantia.
Others unobiectionable in themselves,
become poisonous owing to their mode
of manufacture, which leaves in the
products poisonous impurities, such as
arsenic (rarely), salts of copper, tin or
zinc. The manufacturer OF sausages or
jams has not the least idea whether the
color he uses may not belong to one o.
the other of the above, to which doubt.
less many others could be added, and
even if the quality of color consumed
by one individual may be exceedingly
small it is palpably evident that no
such manufactures should have the
right to use such colors. Almost every
civilized country has passed Legislative
measures regulating the use of colors
such as those referred to, but Eng land
the mother of all adulteration acts, has
done nothing and has in this, as IN
many other points concerning the sale
OF food and drink, remained far be-
hind most other nations, even including
the squabbling South American repub'
lics.-Food, Drugs and Drink.