Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-06-10
ID OPPOSE THE
 GOVERNMENT Meat Packers Organize to Test Food Products and Check Pure Food Investl gations of Uncle Sam,
BIG FUND IS RAISED
Meat Packers Not Satisfied With Many of the Conclusions Reached by Doctor Wiley-Will Enlighten Public, Says President Ryan.
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 Washington, June 10.-A chect is to be established on the gov ernments pure food investigations through private enterprise. The American Meat Packers Associa- tlon. an organization recently form ed for protective and educational purposes, has formulated plans for the testing of food products in op- position to the government.
 A pure food laboratory is to be established at the University Of H. Iinois and Dr. F.. J. James, presl- dent of that institution and one Of the foremost scientists in this coun- try, has agreed to undertake the conduct of the experiments and in yestigations. The Meat Packers Association has endowed the lab oratory with a fund of s250, 0,000 and it is proposed to make the in qniries as exhaustive as science and money will permit.
 President James now is organiz- ing 6 corps of scientists to dc the work In contemplation. The men have been selected carefully and with the idea that they shall do their work without prejudice and with the best possible equipment. Several of the best known universi- ties in the country will be repre- sented on the laboratory board, in cluding Yale, Harvard, Michigan, Cornell and John Hopkins. It is proposed that the special in aniries shall be made at the vari- GUS institutions and that the re- suits shall be aggregated together by the general board, which shall draw it's conclusions from the ex- periments and inquiries that have been made.
 While the plans of the labora- tory board yet are incomplete, it is known to have been decided to adopt the poison squad" idea first used by Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry or the department of agriculture. The idea can be carried out well in the big colleges where there are many students who will be glad to volun- teer their services in the interest of science and, incidentally, to get their board free.
 It is understood that the meat packers have not been satisfied with many of the conclusions reached by Dr. Wiley in his experiments and they concluded, therefore, to con- duct series of experiments and inquiries entirely independently of the department of agriculture. They told Dr. James that it was their desire that the work should be absolutely impartial and scien- tifie and that they wanted the board to be composed of men in whom the general public would have perfect confidence. They ex- plafned that what they wanted was a check on the conclusions reached by Dr. Wiley and the gov ernment interests that have not been at all times in co-operation With them. 1t is proposed to de- termine, by the investigations to be made, just what is good and what is bad for the human being. The experiments also will deter mine just what may be saved for practical use of those animal prod uets which are unwholesome as human food.
 In communication to the de- partment of agriculture, General Michael Ryan, president of the Meat Packers Association, says:
 We should be able pathological ly to know what animals should be destroyed and what saved for food We want the public fully enlight- ened with us The kind of loose information current year ago is what the packers dread"
 It can be said that the agricul- fural department welcomes such in quiries, as it is satisfied it's investi gations and experiments have beer conducted fairly and impartially.