Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-01-04


from the report.
AS showing what is alleged to have
been done in the past, the following are
taken from pages 62. 63. O.. 65 and &C
of Part of the fifteenth annual re-
port of the Food Commi ssioner of North
Dakota. 1905:
Lab. No. 1914 (page go.
Brand. dried beef, Armour's sliced
Star.
Producer or jobber, Armour & Co.,
Chicago.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 1894 (pagc go.
Brand, Vienna sausage.
Producer or jobber, Armour & Co..
Chicago.
Contains boratcs.
Lab. No. 2O76 page G3).
Brand. sliced dried beef. White.
Producer or jobbcr. Armour Packing
Co.. Kansas City.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 2132 (page G3).
Brand. breakfast bacon. Gold.
Producer or jobber, Armour Packing
Co., Kansas City.
Contains boratea
Lab. No. 2442 (page G4).
Brand. sliced ham.
Producer or 3obber, Armour 4 Co.,
Chicago.
Contains supplies and borates.
Lab. No. 2400 (page 86).
Brand, Bologna sausage.
Producer or jobbcr, Swift 4 Co.,
Chicago.
Contains boratcs.
Lab. 2481 (page 85).
Brand, Bologna sausage.
Producer or jobbcr, Swift 4 Co., Obi.
cagO.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 2l00 (page COZ.
Brand. Bologna sausage.
Producer or jobbcr. Armour 4 Co.,
Chicago.
Contains boraclc acid or borates.
Lab. No. 2401 (page COZ.
Brand, canvas sausage.
Producer or jObber, Swift & Co., Chi.
cagO.
Contains b0rates.
Lab. No. 241S (page 04).
Brand, breakfast bacon, Gold.
Producer or jobber, Armour Packing
Co.. Kansas City.
Contains b0rates.
We take the following from pages
30. 20 and 81 Of the report Of the Ken.
lucky Agricultural Experiment Sta.
tlon to the governor Of Kentucky on
the enforcement Of the pure food law,
1905:
The manufacturers whose sausagcs
were found to contain boracic acid or
cOlOrlng matter, or both:
"Arnlour 4 Co., Chicago.
Kentucky Packing L Provision
Company, Louisville.
swift Il Co., Chicago.
John Huffman, Cincinnati.
"Schwarxschild 4 Sulxberger, Chlca.
go.
"Jacob vogel 4 Sons, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Evansville Packing Company. Ev.
ansville. Ind.
"omaha Packing Company, Omaha.
Neb.
"Cudahy Packing Company, st.
Louis.
"Pfaflnger 4 Co., Louisville.
"Rausch 4 Ruger, Louisville.
"NelsOn Morris & Co., Chicago.
"Kineghar & Co.. indianapolis.
"The German American Provision
Company, Chicago.
I'm the fall of 1905. Mr.. c. J. Tress.
Ter, attorney for Swift & Company,
called ut 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:
"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 boracic acid into meats
Of otherwise superior quality, the chief
reason for using antiseptlcs, artificial
cOlors aud other adulterantH Is to dis
guise deficiencies, or Its method of
preservation, and when these adulter-
atlons 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"
''lecent Investigations have undOubt.
eddy shown that the federal inspec-
ton over the physiological condition of
packing house meats Is not thorough,
and 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
antlseptlc and the anlline dye are the
chief means by which the consumer Is
deceived into believing that this In.
fariOr or condemned meat Is pure and
"Mr. w. w. Archer, attorney for