Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-03-28

"'We note copy Of your letter Of
September 2Sth. saying that Armour
h Co.'S oleo was found TO contain boz
racic acid. and you have reported the
same to the commemorative attorney.
beg to say that we have given instruc.
lions to the oleomargarine department
to cease using any preservatives II
they are using it,"
"s Armour 4 Co. have al.
ready begun the manufacture Of sau.
sage for Kentucky at Louisville. while
an agent of Swift X Co. states that his
firm have installed separate de-
partment In the Chicago plant In or.
| der to make sausage without bOracic
acid FOR KENTUCKY AND PENN.
SYLvANIA."
The following Associated Press dis.
patch appeared In the Chicago daily
papers of October IL. 1906:
Philadelphia, Pa. Oct. II. 10O6.--On
the charge that Armour h Co. have
been selling meat preserved by boric
acid to local consumers State officials
went to Washington today to urge
action by the federal authorities.
state Dairy and Food Commissioner
Warren. who caused warrants to be
issued for several Of the company's
agents, sent his assistant, Oliver ID.
Schick. accompanied by n. b. Critch.
field. State secretary Of agriculture, to
lay the case before Secretary Wilson
and DR.. II. II. Wiley at Washington.
The meats alleged to have been
"doctored" were discovered on Sept. II
ana as the pure food net became opera.
tive on Sept. Commissioner Warren
declares the company Is liable. under
the federal laws for violation Of this
act.
The following appeared on the sec.
Ond page Of part 1, Of the Chicago
Sunday Tribune Of October 20, 1907.
II speaks for itself:
RULING OF MICHIGAN JUDGE
BLOW TO ARMOUR COMPANY.
Petition to Have Injunction Against
Sale OF Sausage Dissolved Refused
Another Plea Fails.
Niles. Mich, Oct. 1O.-tSpecial.l J.
Judge Coolidge to-day refused to grant
the petition made by Armour & Co. to
have the injunction forbldding the com.
pnny from selling sausage In Michigan
dissolved. The injunction was OBJ.
talned by State Food Commissioner
Bird on the grounds that the sausaees
were adultcrated In violence Of the
pure food laws.
Judge Coolidge also refused to sus-
tain the temporary injunction obtained
by Armour 4 Co. forbidding Bird from
posting certain bulletins showing that
the sausages contained certain adulter.
ants.
The following dispatch published In
the Chicago Record.IIerald, Oct. 81.
1907, explains itself:
Lincoln. Neb. Oct. 3O.-Willinm
Huxtable. representing Swift & Co., and
Claude byron, representing Armour 4
Co.. were to-day hound over to the dis.
trlct court on the charge Of violating
the pure food law by selling unbranded
meats. The Cudahy company agreed to
abide by the decision In the cases OF the
other two concerns.
Chicago Health Department annual
report, 1907, page o.: - a
number Of samples of butter, cheese
liquid eggs, sausage and potted or can.
ned meats and other canned foods have
been found to be preserved with boriC
acid during the past year."
During the annual convention Of the
American Meat Packers Association
which opened In Chicago Oct. Z. 1907
the committee appointed to ask the gov
eminent to return to the packers meat
rejected and condemned by govern
ment inspectors, made the following
report: mo provision has been made
for the return Of meats to inspected es
Establishments after they have been re
jected, but your committee expects
when this IL fully considered by the de
partment. relief will be granted"
In other words, meats condemned
because OF cancer, tuberculosis, lumpy
jaw and the like will be returned t.
the packers!
What will the packers do with thii
condemned meat?
Ship 1t abroad, or sell II to the PEG
pie OF Chicago?
People are beginning to appreciat,
, the enOrmity OF the withdrawal Of Chi
cago city inspectors from the big pack
Ing houses.
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Does bOric acid cause appendicitis
In the course Of an article re-publishe,
from New York paper, In the Chicag
Daily News Of November 8, 1905, W,
find the following:
I'm the meantime physicians. a. wei
as the public at large, continue to won
der whether either one OF the authori
ties Just mentioned may find II possibl,
to correct some Of the abuses that ar,
most frequent, says the New Yorl
Post The troublesome problem of tn,
use of bOric acid az a food preserva
tive, for instance, has Just beer
brought to the attention OF the medlca
world once more by the appearance II