The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-11-10

yellow. Most cOl0rs derived from AMI
NAL or vegetable substances are not
poisonous ~ also the majority of coal
tar colors when pure.
The following articles Of food are
often colored: Sausages pink or red
with coal tar dyes. oleOmargarine yell
low with annuato. turmeric, or coal tar |
colors; ground spices with various and
sometimes poisonous colors; tomato /
catsup and sauces with coal tar dyes; |
pickles and canned vegetables such as
peas green with copper salts; wines
with coal tar dyes; liquors and vine
gar with caramel; cakes and cOnfec- |
tionery, navoring syrups and Ice cream
generally with coal tar colors; teas are
faced with prussian blue, indigo and
plumbago; green coffee with indigo.
lead chromate and ultramarine; roast
ed coffee with caramel.
Candy, ETC., from reputable makers
is a. q rule co!ored with harmless
colors: that fro,n itinerant vendors
should often be looked on with sus-
pici0n. have recently obtained from
a Japanese on the street here, candy
colored with naphthaiene yellow which
Is poisonous. II Is very prevalent
idea that alum is added to bread to
make It white. While this may have
been true in the past do not think 1t
Is the rule now.
The use of alum in baking powder
has been the source of much discus
sion. While 1t has been acknowledged
that alum in bread is exceedingly in
furious, 1t has been urged that In bak-
ing powder the reaction which ensues
leaves the alum as alumina hydrate in
soluble in the juices OF the stomach.
On the other hand It has been shown
that alumina hydrate is not SO insolu-
BILE In the stomach as has been sup
posed and that often all of the alum Is
not decomposed. The opinion Is gain
ing ground that alum in baking powder
should not be allowed, and last year
the legislature of Missouri passed a bill
prohibiting alum, among other things.
in any article of food or in anything
entering In any way into food.
In the class of accidental addition or
presence of injurious substances in
food we find lead and tin from the cans
in which the food has been preserved,
arsenic or other poisonous metals in
troduced with impure coloring material
and ptomains the result of bacterial
action on the food itself. Lead Is most
apt 10 De Iound IN ioods whlch are
!iqu,u, some~hut dcid, anu not mucn
tniekeneo WIN SUGAR; anu ts presehce
-, .h. ..,de, n.hi",, ", .I a u,,aeS y,
" .,'. . n; ..y y.
aa.,r,a - ,nr,o.a ao',,' nnn..t,,na n /,
yroins ~ iood In Cr.rt con h,t 7
have since examined several cans nj
the Same brand and fonnd M lead
The exact conditions necessarvto hiring
about action on the solder are perhaps
obscure. time. Temperature and fire..
Quent shaking probably all figure In
the case. To, guard however agains,
these chance orleans think manu-
facturers should be forced to put W
goods with no solder on the inside Of
the cans. In the case OF nearly all Eu
ropean canned goods the cans are
eitner maze ~itnoLt soider or win tnt
So,der on tne outsiae only.
Ease" where iead IL Iound. TIN i
seneraiiy lound aiso' but All the evi
aence seems 70 lhaicate that the I'll
rs IN susn comolnation mat II is no
psoIoeu III Inc stoniach' anu "niie
eouise us presence Is unuesirapie III
easea VI poison'ns i'o" Tin IN the loo
ne gu recoru.. copper Is apt 10 d
pesen. IN ioo"s prepared IN cope
utensils also IN soda water ana artin
clai mineral waters IRON contact VIII
the copper apparatus useo.
AZ aliea9y no,ed most OF the coai Ia
IDIOTS are narlniess When pure put un
lor.una.ey a.senlc Is useu IN one stas
VI 'ae nanu'ae.ure Oh many Oh 'net
anu ene Nne,ciai aIticies oiteh con
Uln appreciaoie Quantities nav
recentiy examiner tomato catsu
hlsniy oo,ored Win eoai TAR aye SUI
poSeu " oe har"iess ana nave ootain
Gu ITO" !" arsenic Reactions aui'
readiiy.
oylups ana Isht coiored Hioiasse
are APT 70 contaih I'm or zinc; saits 9
Snese me.as oe'ns usea 70 Tleacn thes
ARTISTS anu oe'ns llaper'ec.ly ren0Se'
see VI poison'ns aetrIou'eu
p'oanes are not u"eomnon. ~
a1nes arr pas,c cne'nica. Doales u
resur ~, 'n .e. as.mn vi pac.er.a on ~,