Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-30
SAYS GELATIN
IS MADE FROM
FILTHY HIDES
Wiley Reveals Awful
Conditions
Exposes Revolving Secrets Of Manufac-
ture Of Substance Used Largely In
Making Candy, Ice Creams and
Medicine Capsules
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-In testi-
mony given before the house commit
tee on agriculture today DR.. Harvey
w. Wiley, chief of the chemistry bu-
reau Of the United States department
of agriculture, denounced the gelatin
Industry and exposed the cold storage
fallacy. DR.. Wiley said of gelatin:
ut is made from the scrapings from
hides. Those hides that smell to
heaven are treated and trimmed and
these trimmings are used to make gela-
tin. The marine hospital service
found tetanus germs in gelatin"
DIR. Wiley says the gelatin factories
are the dirtiest in the world that the
hides used are treated with alkali,
which is rubbed into them for ship
ment. He said this gelatin is some
times made in glue factories, and that
stuff that is not fit for glue is made into
gelatin.
In reply to questions from Represen-
tative Baughn, DR.. Wiley said:
Used in Ice Cream
Gelatin is used in ice cream and
candies and for making the capsules
that you take your medicine in"
He added that there is no objection
to gelatin If properly made, and that
there is plenty Of wholesome raw ma
terial to make 1t Of.
DR.. Wiley has been conducting ex-
periments In the cold storage ware
houses of Washington, and he gave the
rAGIr1fa Of pynariY,oaY1fc fc v,itL ol lxinIo nP
foodstuffs.
Milk begins to deteriorate right
away and so does cream" said DR..
Wiley. Eggs also begin to deteriorate
Immediately, Fruit is improved and
sometimes continues to improve for
three months. Meat improves up to
about six weeks, but after three
months for meat you can see that 1t
has reached the maximum and then 1t
begins to go down. don't care how
hard 1t is frozen"
When asked for further explanation
of the deterioration of meat frozen IL
cold storage DR.. Wiley said.
Meats Won't Keep
1--WE find that meats do not taste as
well and they don't smell IS well, as
every time the jury can pick that
which has been kept over three months
Take our quail. We have quail a yeal
old and We have fresh quail cooked
at the same time. We cook them just
alike and every time the jury can pick
out the frozen one blindfolded.'
DR.. Wiley stated that most foods i'm
prove when properly kept for short
time, but he said the object of his ex-
periments is to inform the public and
particularly the cold storage people,
how long they may safely keep food in
storage. He said that as yet he has
been unable to determine whether
drawn or undrawn poultry Keeps bet
ter.
DR.. Wiley was asked many questions
about oysters and said that the oys-
ters opened and shipped in buckets
should be prevented from entering in
terstate commerce, as they are dead
"An oyster is dead an hour after il
is opened" said DR.. Wiley, "and is not
good. 1t loses it's flavor"
In response to inquiries from Repre-
sentative Haskins as to the advisa-
bility of freezing oysters to preserve
them for shipment DIR. Wiley said:
They ought not to be frozen. That
ruins them and as soon as they thaw
they are dangerous"
He urged that oysters be shipped
alive and III the shell. DR.. Wiley said
the oysters sent out in tin cans are
all right.