Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-15
Some OF the Manufacturers Who
Use saccharine Bump Up
Against Pure Food Law
THEY PERSIST IN ATTRACTIONS
Butter Makers of the State Dispute
Article in Iowa Health Bulletin
Indignant Because Of the Reflections
Cast on Butter and Cream by Medi-
cal Men-statement Disputed.
to Times Republican.


Des Moines. Oct. 15.-Some OF the
pickle manufacturers have gotten
themselves into pickle that seems
destined to cost them a pretty penny.
In passing the pure food law the leg
islature directed that saccharin can
not be used in pickles. 1t is a coal
tar product taken from the refuse oil
crude oil 1t is 500 times sweeter
than sugar, but it is not a food and
the best that can be said of 1t is that
chemists and scientists have thus far
been unable to discover that IL does
any harm.
The legislature provided that one
year of twelve full months should be
goods made before the pure food law
was enacted. This was so that stocks
then on nand could be worked OF
without financial loss. The pure food
law was enacted during the session
Of 1906 and did not take effect until
july i, lSUO. He Ststl III w iiiSh oi>a
goods could be worked off was to ex-
tend to July 1. 1907. Manufacturers
knew of the passage Of the law when
it was passed so had about three full
months before the law took effect.
Then they had a full year after it took
effect and the state food and dairy
commissioner has been lenient for an
other three months, so in actual fact
they have had a year and half
The better manufacturers notified
their customers to keep the old goods
separated from the new and at once
stopped putting saccharin in sweet
pickles. Some of the other kind,
thinking they saw loophole to make
money, continued to put saccharin iii
sweet pickles. The labels read the
same and now the shelves of some
of the groceries are piled with sweet
pickles and the manufacturers claim
they don't know whether they have
saccharin in them or not and cannot
tell except by a chemical analysis of
each bottle.
The state food and dairy commits
sioner thinks they have had enough
time and is prosecuting all violations
OF the law. The manufacturers think
they may have to take in all the stock
now out in the grocers' hands and
replace it with a new stock The
food commissioner is suspicious. He
thinks that if they had stopped put
ting in saccharin N good faith thew
could easily have started long ago to
separating their stocks and keep the
saccharin sweetened J goods separate
from the sugar sweetened He is in
clined to think they have gone on us
ing saccharin contrary to law and now
have only themselves to blame for the
trouble they have gotten into.
Da1rymen take exceptions to the ar
t1cle published in the last number Of
the Iowa Health Bulletin, a monthly
publication which is the official organ
of the state board of health, to the ef-
feet that the tuberculosis bacteria in
cows milk concentrates in the cream
and butter. They claim that it is lust
the opposite and that the statement of
the Iowa Health Bulletin that: But
ter as ordinarily used is unuuestion-
ably one of the filthiest things that
come upon the table," is one of the
|rankest Misrepresentation and false
hoods going.
The article published in the Health
Bulletin was taken from Modern Medi-
cine, a medical journal 1t says that
"A single teaspoonful of milk gener-
ally contains from two millions to ten
million germs. and that "In the re-
moval of cream from the milk, the
germs are taken with 1t, and in the
process of churning, the germs are COL
lected with the fat, so IL the butter
we have the concentration Of the large
part of the germs contained in the
milk from which the butter was de-
rived" The article goes on to hold up
the horrors of the filthiness of butter
as food of the undesirable kind un-
less made with the most skilled chem
ical scrutiny after pasteurizing the
milk and later the cream.
Dairymen say this is all hoax. In
the first place they claim that there
are many cows that have tuberculosis
which do not show the germs in the
milk. tuberculosis, they say, is dis
ease that attacks particular parts If
a COW has tuberculosis of the udder
the milk will be infected But if she
has tuberculosis of the lnngs or some
other part of the anatomy it will not
show in the milk and the milk can be
used continually without harm to any
one.
But as to the germs being skim
med off with the milk they directly
contradict the statement Of the arti-
Gle in the Health Bulletin. They say
that tuberculosis bacteria live on the
nitrogenous part of the milk and not
off the butter fat This nitrogenous
part is In the milk after it is skinned
and hence they claim that in the skim
med milk, will be found the larger per
centage of tuberculosis bacteria and
in the butter fat little or none
The legislature passed a stringent
law requiring that all SKINNED milk
from m orias no paSfAurizo1 ,rbic