Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21

Laboratory. We Gull some extracts
from the report.
AS showing what Is alleged to have
been done in the past. the following are
taken from pages 62. 81. "a, % and ~
of Fart 9 of the fifteenth annual re-
port of the Food Commi ssioner of North
Dakota, 1908:
Lab. No. 1914 (page 62).
Brand. dried beef, Ariuours sliced
Star.
Producer or jobber, Armour 4 Co..
Chicago.
Contains boratcs.
Lab. No. 1884 (page j3).
Brand. Vienna sausage.
Producer or jobber. Armour K Co.,
Chicago.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 2O16 (page 63).
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 borates.
Lab. No. 2442 (page 8i).
Brand. sliced ham.
Producer or jobbcr. Armour 4 Co.,
Chicago.
Contains supplies and borates.
Lab. No. 246O (page So.
Brand. Bologna sausage.
Producer or jobber, Swift 4 Co.,
Chicago.
Contains bOrates.
Lab. 24Sl (pagc go.
= Brand. Bologna sausage.
Producer or jobber, Swift & Co.. Chi.
cago.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 2i9O (page 8G).
Brand, Bologna sausage.
Producer or jobber. Armour & Co.,
Chicago.
Contains boracic acid or borates.
Lab. No. 2i01 (page CO..
Brand. canvas sausage.
Producer or jobber, Swift & Co., Chi.
cago.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 241S (page 84.
Brand. breakfast bacon. Gold.
Producer or jobber, Armour Packing
Co.. Kansas City.
Contains b0rates.
We take the following from pages
50, 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.
1905:
The manufacturers whose sausages
were found to contain bOraclc acid or
coloring matter, or both:
"Armour 4 CO., Chicago.
Kentucky Packing & Provision
Company, Louisville.
swift 4 Co., Chicago.
John Huffman. Cincinnati.
"Schwarzschild < Sulzbergcr, Chlca.
so.
Jacob vosel & Sons. Cincinnati.
Ohio.
Evansville Packing Company. Ev.
ansville. Ind.
"Omaha Packing Company. Omaha.
Neb.
"Cudahy Packing Company. st..
Louis.
"Pfafiinger 4 Co.. Louisville.
"Rausch 4 Ruger. Louisville.
''NelsOn Morris & Co., Chicago.
"Klneghar 4 Co.. indianapolis.
"The German American Provision
Company, Chicago.
"In the fall OF 1905. Mr.. c. j. Tress.
Ter, attorney for Swift & 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 he no further shipments
containing these substances into the
state"
The report continues:
1.-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 whOlesOmeness OF the
animal. While bOraclc acid into meats
Of otherwise superior quality, the chief
reason for using antlseptics, artificial
cOlOrs and other adulteranta IL 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 a more whole
some and perfect food
Recent Investigations have undoubt-
edly shown that the federal inspec.
ton over the physiological condition of
packing house meats Is not thorough
and that some of the animal PROD
UCT UNFIT FOR FOOD is PUT UP
AND PASSED TO CONSUMERS IN
DER THE GUARANTEE or THE
MEAT INSPECTION STAMP The
antseptlc and the anillne dye are the
chief means by which the consumer is
deceived into believing that this in
ferlOr or condemned meat Is pure and
Wholesome