The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-07-25
GOLD STORAGE OF FOODS
Pure Food Expert Tells of
Experiments.
DETERIORATION OF MEAT

MIX and Eggs Begin To Deteriorate
Immediately When Placed in Cold
storage-Should not Freeze oysters,
Nor ship Them After Opening.
DR.. Harvey W. Wiley, Chief of the
Chemistry Bureau of the Department
of Agriculture and the Governments
pure food expert, has made some OK.
tensive experiments with the deter
joration of foodstuffs in cold storage
at two cold storage warehouses which
are at his disposal at Washington.
Milk begins to deteriorate right
away, and so does cream" he says
Eggs also begin to deteroriate imme-
diately. Fruit is improved, and some
times continues to improve for three
months in cold storage. Meat imp
proves up to six or eight weeks. But
after three months for meat you can
see that 1t has reached the maximum,
and then 1t begins to go down. do
not care how hard 1t Is frozen"
When asked for further explana-
ton OF the deterioration of meat froz.
en- in cold storage, DR.. Wiley said:
We find that meats do not taste as
well and they do not smell as well,
and every time a jury can pick that
which has been kept more than three
months. Take quail year old and
fresh quail cooked at the same time.
We cook them just alike, and you can
distinguish between them; first by
their looks and then by smell and
taste. Every time u jury can pick
them out blindfolded."
Dr. Wiley was asked many ques-
tons about oysters, and said that
the oysters opened and shipped In
buckets should be prevented from en-.
tering into interstate commerce. rs
they are dead. "An oyster is dead an
hour after 1t Is opened" said DR.. Will
ey, "and Is not good. It loses It's
flavor"
In response to inquiries from Rep
resentative Haskins as to the advisa-
bilty of freezing oysters for shipment,
Or. Wiley said: "Oh, they ought not
to be frozen. That ruins them and as
soon as they thaw they are danger
GUS" He then urged that oysters
should be shipped alive and in the
shell and said that the greatest out
rage of the oyster trade is TO soak
oysters with fresh water and swell
them up, making them look fat.
DR.. Wiley said the oysters sent out
in tin cans are all right, but in further
denunciation of bulk oysters shipped
I'm tubs and buckets, said: They are
either preserved with some preserva-
tive or are dangerously near the
ptnmaine line, one of the two
Gelatine of certain kinds was de-
nounced by DR.. Wiley, who said Of 1t:
1T is made out of hides of the scrap
ags from hides. These hides go in
TO 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 the tanners
germs in gelatine.'
Dr.. Wiley said such gelatine factor
les are the dirtiest In the world: that
the hides used are treated with alkali
which is rubbed into them for ship
ment. The hides are scraped and
trimmed and are then put into the
tanners vats and the residue used
for gelatine He said that this gela-
tine is sometimes made in glue fac
tories and that what Is not fit for
glue is made into gelatine.
1t is used for putting into Ice cream
and candles and for making capsules
that you take your medicine in"
He added that there is no obJec-
ton to gelatine II properly made and
that there is plenty Of wholesale raw
material to make It Of AS to the
proportion of gelatine made from mat
erial containing live germs, DR.. Wiley
sald mo one wants to run the risk
Of getting lockjaw by taking powd-
er Or n nil Or eating ice cream" I"