Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-12-28

AZ showing what IL alleged to have
been done In the past, the following are
taken from pages 62, 03, "a, 66 and %
Of Part 2 Of the fifteenth annual re.
port Of the Food Commissioner of North
Dakota, 1906:
Lab. No. 1874 (page 82).
Brand, dried beef, Armour's sliced
Star.
Producer or jobber, Armour 4 Co.,
Chicago.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 1894 (pagc 03).
Brand, Vienna sausage.
Producer or jobber, Armour 4 Co.,
Chicago.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 2O7G (page 63).
Brand, sliced dried beef, White.
Producer or jobber, Armour Packing
Co.. Kansas City.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 2132 (page O3).
Brand, breakfast bacon, Gold.
Producer or jobber, Armour Packing
CO., NansaS City.
Contains boratea
Lab. No. 2442 (page Gl).
Brand, sliced ham.
Producer or jobber, Armour L Co.,
Chicago.
Contains sulphites and borates.
Lab. No. 240O (page O5).
Brand, .BOloRnn sausage.
Producer or jobber, Swift 4 Co.,
Chicago.
Contains borates.
Lab. 24S1 (page 65).
Brand, Bologna sausage.
Producer or jobber, Swift & Co., Chi.
cagO.
|. Contains boratcs.
Lab. No. 2400 (page 00).
Brand, Bologna sausage.
Producer or jobber. Armour 4 Co.,
Chicago.
Contains boracic acid or boratcs.
Lab. No. 2401 (page CO.,.
Brand, canvas sausage.
Producer or jobber, Swift 4 Co., Chi.
cago.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 241S (page 04).
Brand, breakfast bacon, Gold.
Producer or jobber, Armour Packing
Co., Kansas City.
Contains borates.
We take the following from pages
90. 90 and OF Of the report Of the Ken.
lucky Agricultural Experiment Sta.
ti0n to the governor Of Kentucky on
the enforcement Of ths pure food law.
1905:
The manufacturers whose sausagcs
were found to contain boracic acid or
colOrlng matter, or both:
"Armour 4 Co., Chicago.
Kentucky Packing 4 Provision
Company, Louisville.
"swlft 4 Co., Chicago.
"J0hn Huffman, Cincinnati.
"Schwarsschild 4 Sulsberger. Chica.
60.
"Jacob vogel 4 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 4 Co., Chicago.
'Klneghar & Co., Indianapolis.
"The German American Provision
Company, Chicago.
I'm the fall Of 1905. Mr.. c. J. Tress.
ler. attorney for Swift 4 Company.
called at the Office and stated that
Swift & Co. had eliminated bOracic
acid and color from meat products
FOR SALE IN KENTUCKY, and that
there would be no further shipments
containing these substances into the
state"
The report continues:
"The packing houses need inspection
to control adulteratiOns 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 whOlesomeness OF the
animal. While bOracic acid into meats
OF otherwise superior quality, the chief
reason for using antiseptics, artificial
colors ana other adulterants IL to dis
gulse deficiencies, or Its method OF
preservation, and when these adulter.
atlOns are restricted the result must
be a higher standard In the product to
be packed, better methods OF packing
and preservation and more whole.
some and perfect food"
"Recent Investigations have undOubt-
edly shown that the federal inspec.
tIOn over the physiological condition of
packing house meats is not thorough,
ana that some Of the animal PROD
UCr UNFIT FOR FOOD Is PUT UP
AND PASSED TO CONSUMERS UN.
DER THE GUARANTEE OF THE
MEAT INSPECTION STAMP The
antiseptlc and tho aniline dye are the
chief means by which the consumer is
deceived into believing that this In.
fsriOr or condemned meat Is pure and
wholesome"
"Mr. w. w. Archer, attorney for
Armour & Co., writes the station under
date 0f September %. 1906. regarding
the finding Of b0rks :.sdd In Armour