Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-09

forty doses Of chemicals and colors a
day, or $4,000 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 salicylic acid.
Tomato soup containing coal tar
dye and benxoic acid.
Cabbage and corned oeef containing
saltpeter.
Corn scallops containing Tornado.
hyde.
Canned pease. saiIcylic acid.
Catsup, coal tar dye aud benxoic
acid.
Mince pie. boracic acid.
Pickles, copperas, sodium sulphite
and salicylic acid.
Canned beef containing borNx.
Canned peaches. sodium sulphite. coal
tar dye and salicylic acid.
Baked pork and beans, formalde-
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
druRs, extracts and simpies," said Mr..
Patterson, "and yet We allow 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.
"Ail the coal tar colors are manu.
featured BY artificial processes with
out proper supervision % to their e.
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. be
divided into two claases-hrst. those
which are not only admittedly harm
lcss, but TINT are also useful articles
OF food, such ~ common salt, sugar.
sp,ces, etc. These have been used sip"s
time in,,nemoi ial and their use must
be considered legitimate.
"The second class embraces the 10
called chemical preservatives. the prln
clpal ones OF which are salicyllc acid
and benzoic acid. with their salts
boracic acId ana borax, formaldehyde
saccharin, sucrol. sulphurous acid and
its salts. ahrastol, beta naDhthol "p'
some OF the n,iorine compounds. The
applicatIon Of these preservatives Il
food products Ia OF comparatively re
cent date and In my opinion their us'
lie a menace to public health and long
evity."
One hundred ana sixteen articles pro
duced by the Beef Trust In Chicago
have been examined and condemned b!
the honest pure food commissioner o
the State Of North Dakota. Every on
NJ them was condemned because
contained a poison ana was therefor
detrimental to the public health. Lacl
of space alone prohibits us from print
Ing the list ana the names OF tn
houses shipping the stuff.
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The Chicago Reef Trust house whic
pleaded guilty In Pennsylvania to til
charge of selling poisonous ana adu
terated sausages, was fined on tw
charges.
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| Charges that government inspectlc
| of beef Is inadequate and protects Il
! foreign consumer to the detrlment
| Chlcagoans were made by DR.. VILLA
X. Jaques mt the meeting Of the Chic
go Medical Society at the public
brary. DR.. Arnold G. Klebs EXPRESS
Endorsement Of Dr. Jaque's sentiment
After the broad assertions abo
quoted DIR. Jaques continued as II
lows: "The condemned carcasses CT
be sold by the consent of the law aft
| they have been branded ON the quartz
] Of beef or mutton or pork, mark