Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-05-12

and read by him ami which Is used by
the unsuspecting consumer who gets
forty doses OF chemicals and colors q
dry. or 1l,GOO doses year, Is Us fol.
lows:
Sausage containing coal tar dye and
bOrax. and potato -four.
Butter containing coal tar dye or
bOrnx.
Canned cherries containing coal tar
dye or salicylIc ncld.
Tomato soup containing coal tar
dye and benzoIc ncid.
Cabbage ana corned beef containing
saltpcter.
Corn scallops containing forinaile-
hyde.
Canned rense. snlicyiic ncid.
Catsup, COIL tar dye and benzoic
acid.
Allnce pie. boraclc acid.
Pickles. copleras. sodium sulphite
and snllcyllc acid.
Canned beef containing borax.
Canned peaches. sodium sulphite. coal
tar dye and salicyllc acid.
Baked pork and beans. fOrmal'le-
hyde.
Currnnt jelly, coal tar dye and sail.
cylic acid.
Cheese. coal tar dye.
I'VE have pharmacy and medical
laws regulating the administration Of
drugs, extracts and slmpics." said Mr..
Patterson, ."and yet We allow class
Of people without any medical skill to
administer poisonous coiors to our.
| selves and to our children In colored
foods. beverages and CONNECTIONS.
"All the cOal tar cOlOrs are manu-.
featured by artificial processes with.
out proper, supervision rs to their II.
feet upon the public health. and none
Of them should Ike administered IN
foods IN the prOmiscuous manner now
prevailing.
Antiseptlcs. said Mr.. Patterson. are
used In these preparations to prevent
fermentation. "Antiseptics may" he
continued. alike cOlOring matter be
divided into two classes--flrst. those
which are not only admittedly harm
icss. hut TINT are also useful articles
Of food. such ~ common salt, sugar,
spices, etc. Those have been used slp's
time Immemo, ial and their use must
be considered legitimate.
"The second class embraces the 30
called chemical personalities. the prin
clpal ones Of which are salicyllc acid
and lenzoic acid, with their salts
boracic ncid ana boraX. formaltlehytle
sncchuriii, sucrol. sulphurous acid ind
its salts. nhrastol. beta naphthol end
sol,,e of the n,lorlne compounds. The
application Of these personalities t.
food products Il Of comparatively re-
cent date ana In my opinion their use
lie a menace to public health ana long
ev!,y."
One hundred and sixteen articles pro
duccd by the Reef Trust In Chicago
have been examined ana condemned by
the honest pure food commissioner OF
the State OF North Dakota. Every ont
Of them was condemned because !,
contained poison anu was therefOr'
detrimental to the public health. Lacl
Of space alone prohibits us from print
Ing the list ana the names Of TIN
houses shipping the stun.
~
Charges that government inspection
OF beef IL Inadequate ana protects tn
foreign consumer to the detriment q
ChicagOans We're made by DR.. william
X. jacques ut the meeting Of the Chica
go Medical Society ut the public j
brary. DR.. Arnold c. Klebs espresso
Endorsement OF DIR. Jaque's sentiments
After the broad assertions ab0v
quoted DR.. jacques continued as 70
lows: "rhe condemned carcasses ca
he sold by the consent of the law afte
they have been branded on the quarter
OF beef or mutton or pork, Marke
with the condemned tag and returne
to the owner. The latter Is not force
to destroy them. lie may sell thel
and the only thing required Ia that b
furnish monthly statement. unde