The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-30
|DR. WILEY ON FOODSTUFFS Tells Committee of Cold Storage. SOME ARTICLES IMPURE Should Not Be Kept Frozen Too
 Long. Declares That Oysters opened and Shipped in Bulk Are Not Fit To Eat-Expose of Celia

washington, Jan. 2s.-Dr. Harvey W. wiley. chief of the chemistry bureau of the department of agriculture and government pure food expert gave much interesting testimony concern ing the deterioration of foodstuns m cold storage before the house commit tee on agriculture whose hearings on the agricultural appropriation Dill have just been made public.
 Two cold storage warehouses are at Dr. Wtleys disposal in Washington and he gave the results he has attained by experiments with all sorts of food stuffs.
 "Milk begins to deteriorate right away and so does cream" said Dr. Wiley Eggs also begin to deterior- ate immediately. Fruit is improved and some times continues to improve for three months. Meat improves up to about six or eight weeks. But ar ter three months for meat you can see that 1t has reached the maximum and then it begins to go down, I do nor care how hard 1t is frozen.
 When asked for a further explana- tion of the deterioration of meat froz- en in cold storage, Dr. Wiley said: we find that meats do not taste as wei, and they do not smell as well and every time the jury can pick that which has been kept over three months.
 .sTake our quail. We have quail year old and we have a fresh duaii cooked at the same time. We COOK them just alike and you can distin- guish between them, first by tnelr LOOKS and then by smell and taste. Every time the jury can pick them out blind folded"
 pr. Wiley stated that he is a thor ough believer in cold storage and oe- lieves that most foods improve when properly kept for short time, but ne said that the object of his experiments is to tell the public and particularly the cold storage people how long they may safely keep articles of food In storage. He said that as yet he has been unable to determine whether drawn or undrawn poultry kept the better.
 Dr. Wiley was asked many questions about oysters and said that the oysters opened and shipped in buckets should be prevented from entering interstate commerce as they are dead.
 "An oyster Is, dead an hour after 1t is opened" said pr. Wiley, and Is not good. It loses it's flavor"
 In response to inquiries from Rep resentative- Haskins as to the advis- ability of freezing oysters to preserve them for shipment, Dr. Wiley said:
 "Oh, they ought not to be frozen. That ruins them and as soon as they thaw they are dangerous"
 He then urged that oysters should be shipped alive and in the shell and said that the greatest outrage of the oys- ter trade Is to soak oysters with fresh water and swell them up. making them look fat pr. Wiley said the oysters sent out in tin cans are all right. but in further denunciation of bulk oys- ters shipped in tubs and buckets. he said:
 They are either preserved with some preservative or are dangerously near the ptomaine line. one or the two."
 Gelatin was denounced by Dr. Wiley. who said of 1t: "It Is made out of hides, of the scrapings from hides. These hides go into the tanners vats and these hides that smell to heaven are treated and trimmed and these trimmings are used to make gelatine. The Marine Hospital Service found tetanus gvrms in gelatine
 Dr. Wiley said that the gelatine fac tories are the dirtiest in the world.
 Tn reply to a question from Repre- sentative Haughan as to the uses Of this gelatine. Dr. Wiley said:
 Ut is used for putting into Ice cream and candies and for making capsules that you take your medicine in "