The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-01-06
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VARIOUS METHODS OF ADuL-
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Modern Science Watchrully Protects
Chemist Has to Say About Coiored
sweetmeats-Sausa:e :es and Jam.
Nearly all theycommon articles, Of
food are adulterated, orselse by GER
tain methods made tempting to the
eye, but this is, not saying that they
are therefore always made harmful
to the human system. ',~ - =9zSiSEs4s :2 .Ssss
Milk is adulterated, with water, by
the removal of cream and by the ad-
dition of antiseptics to preserve it.
Flour, calves brains, starch and
chalk have been found in milk
The great danger of adding water
to milk, aside from lowering it's
quality and strength, is the fact that
impure water may be used. In this
way cases of typhoid fever, scarlet
fever and diphtheria have been pro-
duced. ~:s:..| 5
recall the case of mans son
who drank freely of milk and who
died OF typhoid fever. The father, a
milkman in the suburbs, did not
water the milk, but washed out his
cans with water from a : we'll which
was contaminated by bad, drainage.
There is a simple test by which to
discover if water is affected by drain
age. from outh ouses. Put some
bluing or any aniline color in the
clubhouse. If this color reappears in
the well water it will show that the
water is contaminated. Aside from
the simple test I have mentioned
only a scientific analysis by chemist
can determine whether water is con-
taminated. , -->..
Bacteria ara found in milk, but,
contrary to popular belief, they are
not necessarily harmful.
In one sample of milk I found 4O0,-
00J in cubic centimeter. Bacteria
do not, however, multiply 1ndefnite-
ly in milk and their production usual
ly entirely ceases after a day or two.
Boiling will destroy all the. bacteria
in milk.
Formerly, the adulteration of candy
was common, but DR.: Edison of the
New York board of health took such
decided steps that the practice has
ceased. The large manufacturers
have decided to use nothing injurious
in their candies. IL.
- W,es41eonstantlyse u & examine SAMPLES
from the retail torres, partic u1arly IN
the stores near, sch oolhouses patron
tied by children, writes E. w. Mar
tin in the Chicago Record.
Terra a-alba, chalk and clay have
been used, and are doubtless now
used by candy makers in some parts
Of the country to give weight to
their wares.
Although candies are colored with
aniline colors, most of these colors
rre harmless.
The poisonous colors are picric
acid and its salts, martius yellow,
safranine, methvien blue, dinitrocresol
and aurantia.
Sausages, both the meat and skin,
were formerly dyed with aniline
colors for the purpose of hiding the
color Of unhealthy or stale meat, but
that practice has been stopped, at
least in New York. Jams, especially
plum jams, are generally dyed with
aniline colors. So is sugar; and ale,
brandies and whiskies are darkened.
Mustard, adulterated with flour, is
made to look yellow by the addition
of tumeric with burnt sugar.
In most of these cases the color
used is harmless.
Cheese is adulterated by making it
of skinned milk. The fat removed
from the skinned milk is often, re-
placed by lard. There is nothing
unhealthy about this product, though
it may not be satisfying to the epi-
cure.
There is peculiar fermentation
which occasionally takes place in
cheese and which Professor Vaughan
calls tirotoxican. This is very poi
sonous, and is thelsame condition met
with in the poisoned ice-cream about
which we ,ead occasionally.
In canned goods, when the manu-
featuring process is faulty, fermenta-
tion sets in. That, in itself, is bad;
but it also produces an acid which
attracts the tin, lead end the solder,
In goods which have undergone the
fermentation dangerous amounts of
tin and lead will be found. When
these fermented goods are found in
New York they are destroyed.
Meats and fish are constantly be-
ing Inspected. In New York no COWS
are allowed to be slaughtered except
between the hours of 8 a. M and 5 b
~. and then only in the presence Of
a meat inspector of the board Of
health. ;$1 I Z s>.3a
= When diseased animals are discoy-
cred they are at once taken to the
offal dock.
Tuberculosis has been found to be-
entirely confined to cows; we have
never found q case among the steers.
# q case OF tuberculosis is discovered
and the animal comes from a locality
which supplies the city with milk,
the state board OF health is notified.
and q veterinary surgeon goes to the