The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-07
Prof. 7 5
BIG.
Food Inspector
Exposes a
Fraud.
ICE CREAM FOUND
NEARLY ALL WATER
Report to Board Of Health Shows
Up Many Small Tricks Which
are Used.

~ Food Commissioner Shorey persists
81 In present: ng to the members of the
n Beard of Health detailed accounts
of the foodstuffs which he examines. to-
eether with complete figures showing the
profit in marketing certain articles, 1t Is
inst likely that he will soon find that he
will have no Board of Health to report
to- 1t is not in human nature to listen
to the inside details of q business which
is within the reach of all, with sales
certain and the profits better and quick
err than sugar stocks. and not embark
in 1t.
Shorey must have a shrewd business
Instinct or else have at some time in
vested his five cents in a dish of Chinese
ice cream. to have inspired him to make
tht. searching investigation in that d.
rection VIII CHI he has completed. over 80
per cent water in one little dish of the
cooling concoction, a little sugar ana
little milk and less butter constitute the
remaining ingredients And all for five
cents But Shorey in his exposure of
this fraud does not stop to think OF the
labor attached to It's manufacture. Has
h. never turned the handle of an old
fashioned freezer? At any rate, from
tbs closing sentence of his report 1t Is
| likely that this gigantic fraud Will De
| perpetrated upon an innocent pupAc LOT
| all time to come, for Shorey has given
! up in despair. II do not know whether
there is any way of stopping this fraud
or not" he says.
| Following Is the report: A sample OF
so-called ice cream, as sold by Chinese
and Japanese vendors, was examined
| The amount obtained for cents, When
melted, was one-third pint. Its compost
ton was: Milk, 2.5 per cent; sugar, 1o.1
per cent; water, sos per cent butter
fat, OIL per cent. The value of one quart
or 225 pounds, selling for 80 cents, &C
cording to this analysis, ID: Milk at Il
cents per quart 0.3 cents; sugar at
cents per pound, 2S2 cents; total, BIZ
cents: leaving lis cents per pound COM
pensation for freezing and dispensing.
do not know whether there Is any way
of stopping this fraud Or not
| The flour report also contains some
useful information. 1T is hardly neces-
sary to say that extra white fiours are
often comparatively low in nutrition
properties and i'll adapted for bread
making, and at the same time are nee
essarily higher in price. Neither Is 1t
necessary to point out that no flour Will
make good bread in the hands of one
No authorizations We're detected in these
samples. At present / cannot say wheth-
er these brands vary much in compost
ton. from samples received, or not"
/ But where the Food Inspector got
down to good sond work is in his report
on samples of milk taken from wagons
by the Inspector. which were found to
be below the standard, as follows:
Japanese driver for kaaipu Dairy: to-
tai solids, l0,6: butter fat, 80; at least
5 per cent added water.
Tanaki; total solids. 10.1 butter fat 81;
at least 10 per cent added water.
NJ. Pecheco: total solids, 10.S per cent;
butter fat, so; at least per cent added
water.
NJ. Pecheco; total solids, 101 per cent;
butter fat. 81; at least 10 per cent added
water.
NJ. Pecheco; total solids, 90; butter fat,
l.6 at least 20 per cent added water
NJ Abreu; total solids, Sc; butter fat,
l6, at least Is per cent added water.
NJ. AFRICA; total solids 1885, butter fat,
81; at least 10 per cent added water.
One sample OF ground coffee was ex-
amined on private complaint, but the
Food Inspector failed to discover any
adulteration. Yet he was, not to be baf-
fled. for he got even with the coffee by
saying that it was an inferior article
poorly wasted and poorly ground.
sample of lemon phosphate also elud-
ed the Vigilant search for foreign mat
ter, as nothing injurious was found. A
little citral did show up, though, expos
ing the use of a fictitious lemon extract.
A bottle of ginger ale was purchased
from Jap vendor and the chemical re-
search exposed a trick in that trade also,
for cayenne was discovered Turk ng
in the bottle, but the Food Inspector
gives the whole scheme away when he
Fays that 1.-The whole or partial substitu-
ton of ginger by cayenne in this drink
is