Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-05-26

and read by him and which Is used by
the unsuspecting consumer who gets
forty doses Of chemicals and cOlors a
day, or $4,000 doses a year, Is rs fol.
lows:
Sausage containing coni tar dye and
bornx, and potato flour.
Butter containing COIL tar dye or
bOrax.
Canned cherries containing coal tar
dye or salicylic acid.
Tomato soup containing coal tar
dye and benxOic acid.
Cabbage and corned beef containing
saltpeter.
Corn scallops containing tornado.
hyde.
Canned peasc. salicylic acid.
Catsup. coal tnr dye and benzoic
acid.
Mince pie. boraclc acid.
Pickles, cOpperas, sodium sulphite
and salicyllc acid.
Canned beef containing boraX.
Canned peaches. sodium sulphite, coal
tar dye and snllcylic acid.
Baked pork and beans, Tornado.
hyde.
Currant 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 sImpies," said Mr..
Patterson, "and yet we allow class
Of people without any medical skill to
administer poisonous colors to our.
selves and to our children In cOlored
foods, beverages and CONNECTIONS.
"All the cOal tar cOlOrs IRE manu.
featured by artificial processes with.
out proper supervision as to their #.
feet upon the public health. and none
Of them should he administered IN
foods In the promiscuous manner now
prevailing.
Antiseptics. said Mr.. Patterson, are
used In these preparations to prevent
fermentation. "Antlseptics may" he
continued. alike colOring matter. be
divided into two ciasses-nrst. those
which are not only admittedly harm.
lcss. but TINT are also useful articles
Of food. such ~ common salt. sugar.
spices, etc. These have been use,l sip'e
time lmmenho,ial ana their use must
be considered legitimate.
"The second class embraces the So
called chemical preservatives. the prin
clIni ones Of which are salicylic acid
and bcnxoIc acid. with their salts ;
bOracic acid ana borax, formaldehyde.
sncchnrill. sMcrol. sulphurous acid and
its salts, nLr,istOl. beta naDhtllol cnd
some Of the mlorine compounds. The
application of these personalities to
food products II Of comparatively re-
cent date ana In my opinion their use
lie menace to public health and long
evi,y."
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One hundred ana sixteen articles pro.
duced by the Beef Trust In Chicago
have been examined and condemned by
the honest pure food commissioner of
the State OF North Dakota. Every one
IT them was condemned because II
contained a poison ana was therefore
detrimental to the public health. Lack
Of space alone prohibits us from print
Ing the list ana the names Of the
houses shipping the stun.
~
Charges that government Inspection
Of beef Is Inadequate and protects til,
foreign consumer to the detriment o
Chlcagoans We're made by DR. william
X. Jaques ut the meeting OF the Chica
90 Medical Society ut the public II
brary. DR.. Arnold c. Klebs espresso,
Endorsement Of DIR. Jaque's sentiments
After the broad assertions abov
quoted DIR. jacques continued as fol
lows: "rhe condemned carcasses cal
DO sold by the consent of the law afte
they have been branded on the quarter
of beef or mutton or pork, marhe,
with the condemned tag and returne'
to the owner. The latter Is not force,
to destroy them. lie may sell then
and the only thing required Is that h
furnish monthly statement, unde