Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-02

forty doses Of chemicals ana colors
dry, or 14,GOO doses year, Is as fol-
lows:
Sausage containing coal tar dye and
boraX, and potato flour.
Butter containing coal tar dye or
bOrax.
Canned cherries containing coal tar
dye or salicyllc acid.
Tomato soup containing coal tar
dye and benzoic ncid.
Cabbage ana corned beef containing
saltpetcr.
Corn scallops containing Tornado.
hyde.
Canned pcase. salicylic acid.
Catsup, coal tar dye ana benzoic
acid.
Mince pie, borncic acld.
Pickles, copperas, sodium sulphite
and snlicyllc acid.
Canned beef containing boraX.
Canned peaches. sodium sulphlte, coal
tar dye and sallcylic acid.
Baked pork ana beans, formnldc.
hyde.
| Currnnt jelly, coal tar dye and sail
cyllc acid.
Cheese. coal tnr dye.
I'VE have pharmacy and medical
laws regulating the administration Of
drugs, extracts and slmples," said Mr..
Patterson. 'and yet we aiiow a class
Of people without any medical skill to
administer poisonous colors to our
selves and to our children In colored
foods. beverages and corrections.
"All the coal tar colors are manu-
featured by artificial processes with
out proper supervision rs to their ef'
feet upon the public health. and none
Of them should be administered IN
foods In the prOmiscuous manner now
prevailing.
Antiseptics, said Mr.. Patterson, are
used in these preparations to prevent
fermentation. "Antiseptics may" he
continued, "like colOring matter. bf
divided into two classes--iirst. those
which are not only admittedly harm
less, but TINT are also useful articles
of food, such ~ common salt. sugar
. spices, etc. These have been used sip''
time lmmemo.ial and their use must
be considered legitimate.
. 1.-THE second class embraces the 80
,, called chemical preservatives. the prin
. clpai ones of which are salicyllc aci(
!, and benzOlc acid, with their salts
boracic acid and boraX, formaldehyde
: saccharlu, sucrol. sulphurous acid an'
!, Its salts. nbrastOl, beta naDhthol "p'
solue OF the n,orine compounds. "h'
!. application Of these preservatives Il
, food products Ia OF comparatively re
| cent date and In my opinion their u.s.
is menace to public health and long
evity."
! One hundred and sixteen articles pro
duced by the Reef Trust In Chicas
have been examined ana condemned b,
the honest pure food commissioner o
the State OF North Dakota. Every on
NJ them was condemned because
contained n poison ana was therefor
1 uetrlIneutuI W tIIc puuhS hc"t"' A"'
| OF space alone prohibits us from prin,
ing the list and the names OF tn
houses shipping the stun.
III ~oA
III The Chicago Beef Trust house whic
pleaded guilty In Pennsylvania to tn
charge OF selling poisonous and adu
terated sausages, was fined on tw
charges.
~
III Charges that government inspectit
Of beef Is inadequate and protects Il
foreign consumer to the detriment
/ ChicagOans were made by DR.. VILLA
X. jacques at the meeting Of the Chic
go Medical Society at the public
brary. DIR. Arnold G. Klebs express
Endorsement of DR.. Jaque's sentiment
iii After the broad assertions abo
quoted DIR. Jaques continued as Il
lows: "The condemned carcasses c.
be sold by the consent of the law aft
they have been branded on the quartz
Of beef or mutton or pork, mark