Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-11-23

taken from pages G2. G3, GA, 65 and &C
of Part 9 of the fifteenth annual re-
port of the Food Commissioner of North
Dakota. 1905:
Lab. no. 1874 (page CO..
Brand. dried beef, Arnour's sliced
Star.
Producer or jobber, Armour 4 Co..
Chicago.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 1894 (pagc 63).
Brand. Vienna sausage.
Producer or jobber, Armour 4 Co..
Chicago.
Contains bOrates.
Lab. No. 2O16 (page 63).
Brand. sliced dried beef, White.
Producer or jobber. Armour Packing
Co.. Kansas City.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 2132 (pnge G3).
Brand. breakfast bacon. Gold.
Producer or jobber, Armour Packing
Co.. Kansas City.
Contains bOrates
a"V. Nv. s1fs NpaSe Vfp.
Brand. sliced ham.
Producer or jobber, Armour & Co..
Chicago.
Contains sulphites and boratcs.
Lab. No. 2iGO (pagc CJ).
Brand. Bologna sausage.
Producer or jobber, Swift & Co..
Chicago.
Contains bOrates.
Lab. 24S1 (paee G5).
Brand. Bologna sausage.
Producer or jObbcr, Swift 4 Co.. Chi.
cagO.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 240O (pagc G6).
Brand, Bologna sausage.
Producer or jobber. Armour 4 Co.,
Chicago.
Contains boraclc acid or borates.
Lnb. No. 2i01 (pagc 08).
Brand, canvas sausage.
Producer or jobber, Swift 4 Co.. Chi.
cagO.
Contains bOrates.
Lab. No. 241S (page Gl).
Brand, breakfast bacon, Gold.
Producer or jobber, Armour Packing
Co.. Kansas City.
Contains bOrates.
We take the following from pages
10, 10 and IL OF the report OF the Ken.
lucky Agricultural Experiment sta.
ton to the governor Of Kentucky on
the enforcement Of the pure food law,
1905:
The manufacturers whose sausnges
were found to contain bOraclc acid or
colOrlng matter, or both:
"Armour & Co., Chicago.
Kentucky Packing 4 Provision
Company. Louisville.
"Swlft Il Co., Chicago.
"JOhn Huffman, Cincinnati.
"Schwarxschlld & Sulzbergcr, Chica.
Jacob vogel & Sons, Cincinnati.
Ohio.
Evansville Packing Company. Ev.
ansvllle, Ind.
"Omaha Packing Company, Omaha.
Neb.
"Cudahy Packing Company, st.
Louis.
"Pfafiinger & Co., Louisville.
"Rausch 4 Ruger, Louisville.
"NelsOn Morris Il CO.. Chicago.
"Kineghar 4 Co.. Indianapolis.
"The German American Provision
Company, Chicago.
"In the fall OF 1905, Mr.. c. J. Tress-
Ter. attorney for Swift & Company.
called at the office and stated that
Swift 4 Co. had eliminated boracic
acid and color from meat products
FOR SALE IN KENTUCKY, ana that
there would be no further shipments
containing these substances into the
| state.'
The report continues:
"'rhe packing houses need inspection
to control aduterations which the
packer Is permitted. without restraint
to add to meat products, just as much
as the inspection which the Federal
Government conducts with reference to
| the physiological wholcsomcness of the
animal. While bOraclc acid into meats
Of otherwise superior quality, the chief
reason for using antiseptcs, artificial
cOlors ana other adulterants Is to dis
guise deficiencies, or its method of
preservation, and when these adulter-
ations are restricted the result must
he higher standard In the product to
he packed, better methods of packing
and preservation ana more whole
some and perfect food"
"Recent Investigations have undOubt-
edly shown that the federal inspec-
tion over the physiological eOn6ltlOn of
packing house meats Is not thorough,
ana that some of the animal PROD
UCT UNFIT FOR FOOD Is PUT UP
AND PASSED TO CONSUMERS UN-
DER THE GUARANTEE OF THE
MEAT INSPECTION STAMP The
antlseptlc and the anlline dye are the
chief means by which the consumer Is
deceived into believing that this in
ferlor or condemned meat Is pure and
wholesome"
"Mr. w. W. Archer, attorney for
Armour & Co., writes the station under
date of September 2S, 1905, regarding
the finding OF bOric acid In Armour