Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-05-02

suuOTutoTy. we Gull sOiuc eAtiuCtS
from the report.
AS showing what Is alleged to have
been done in the past. the following are
taken from pages ", 63, "a, 6 and 90
OF Fart 9 Of the fifteenth annual re-
port of the Food Commi ssioner Of North
Dakota, 1905:
Lab. No. 1914 (page 82).
Brand. dried beef. Armour's sliced
Star.
Producer or jobber, Armour 4 Co.,
Chicago.
Contains bOrates.
Lab. No. 1884 (page G3).
Brand. Vienna sausage.
Producer or jobber, Armour 4 Co.,
Chicago.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 2O16 (page 83).
Brand. sliced dried beef. White.
Producer or jobber, Armour Packing
Co., Kansas City.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 2l32 (page 63).
Brand. breakfast bacon. Gold.
Producer or jobber, Armour Packing
Co.. Kansas City.
Contains boratea
Lab. No. 2442 (page 8l).
Brand. sliced ham.
Producer or jobber, Armour 4 Co.,
Chicago.
Contains supplies and borates.
Labs No. 2i00 (page 65).
Brand, Bologna sausage.
Producer or jobber, Swift 4 Co.,
Chicago.
Contains borates.
Lab. ?4S1 (page 85).
Brand. Bologna sausage.
Producer or jobber. Swift 4 Co., Obi.
cag0!
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 249O (page 66).
Brand. Bologna sausage.
Producer or jobber. Armour 4 Co.,
Chicago.
Contains borncic acid or borates.
Lab. No. 2401 (page 08).
Brand, canvas sausage.
Producer or jobber. Swift 4 Co., Chi.
cago.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 241S (page az.
Brand, breakfast bacon, Gold.
Producer or jobber, Armour Packing
Co., Kansas City.
Contains borates.
We take the following from pages
80. 90 and 81 Of the report Of the Ken.
lucky Agricultural Experiment Sta.
ton to the governor Of Kentucky on
the enforcement Of the pure food law,
1906:
The manufacturers whose sausages
were found to contain boracic acid or
cOl0rlng matter, or both:
Armour & Co., Chicago.
Kentucky Packing 4 Provision
Company, Louisville.
"Swift & Co., Chicago.
John Huffman. Cincinnati.
"Schwarxschild 4 sulxberger, Chlca.
60.
"Jacob vogel & Sons. Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Evansville Packing Company. Ev.
ansville. Ind.
"Omaha Packing Company, Omaha,
Neb.
"Cudahy Packing Company. st.
Louis.
"Pfafiinger 4 Co., Louisville.
"Rausch & Ruger, Louisville.
"Nels0n Morris 4 Co., Chicago.
"Kineghar 4 Co., Indianapolis.
"The German American Provision
Company, Chicago.
"In the fall OF 1905. Mr.. C. ]. Tress.
Ter, attorney for Swift 4 Company,
called at the Office and stated that
Swift & Co. had eliminated boracIc
acid aud 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 authorizations 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 wh0lesomeness OF the
animal. While bOraclc acid into meats
Of otherwise superior quality, the chief
reason for using antiseptics, artificial
colOrs and other adulteranta Is to dis
gulse deficiencies, or Its method Of
preservation, and when these adulter-
atoms are restricted the result must
be 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.
eddy shown that the federal inspec.
ton over the physiological condition OF
packing house meats IL not thorough,
and 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
antiseptic and the 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"
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