Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-02-15

Laboratory. We Gull some extracts
from the report.
As showing what 10 alleged to have
been done in the past. the following are
taken from pages 62. ,63. "a, 65 and 66
Of Fart 2 Of the fifteenth annual re-
port Of the Food Commi SiOner Of North
Dakota. 1905:
Lab. No. 1874 (page 62).
Brand, dried beef, Arinour's sliced
Star.
Producer or jobber, Armour 4 Co..
Chicago.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 1894 (page 63).
Brand, Vienna sausage.
Producer or jobber, Armour 4 Co.,
Chicago.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 2O78 (page 63).
Brand. sliced dried beef. White.
Producer or jobber, Armour Packing
Co.. Kansas City.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 1882 (paee 83).
Producer or jobber. Armour Packing
Co.. Kansas City.
Contains borateA
Lab. No. pa? (page 64).
Brand, sliced ham.
Producer or jobber. Armour 4 Co.,
Chicago.
Contains supplies and borates.
Lab. No. 2iOO (page 0S).
Brand. Bologna sausage.
Producer or jobber. Swift 3 Co.,
Chicago.
Contains borates.
Lab. ?4S1 (page 05).
Brand. Bologna sausage.
Producer or jobber, Swift 4 Co., Chi.
cago.
Contains borates.
lab. No. 240O (page CO.,.
Brand. Bologna sausage.
Producer or jobber. Armour 4 Co..
Chicago.
Contains boracic acid or borates.
Lab. No. 2401 (page co.,.
Brand. canvas sausage.
Producer or jobber, Swift 4 Co., Chi.
cago.
Contains bOrntes.
Lab. No. 241S (page 84).
Brand. breakfast bacon. Gold.
Producer or jobber. Armour Packing
Co.. Kansas City.
Contains borateS.
We take the following from pages
30. 10 and OF 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 boracic acid or
colOrlng matter. or both:
| armour & Co., Chicago.
Kentucky Packing 4 Provision
Company, Louisville.
"Swlft 4 Co., Chicago.
"JOhn Huffman. Cincinnati.
"schwarsschild 4 sulxberger, Chica.
so.
"Ja"ob vosel 4 Sons. Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Evansville Packing Company, Ev.
ansvIlle. Ind.
"Omaha Packing Company. Omaha,
Neb.
"Cudahy Packing Company. st,
Louis.
"Pfafinger 4 Co., Louisville.
| "Rausch 4 Ruger. Louisville.
"Nelson Morris 4 Co., Chicago.
"Kineghar 4 Co.. Indianapolis.
"The German American Provision
Company. Chicago.
"In the fall Of 1905. Mr.. G. ]. Tress.
Ter, attorney for Swift & Company,
called at the office and stated that
Swift 4 Co. had eliminated b0raciC
acid and 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:
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 ia
the physiological wholesOmeness of the
animal. While bOracic acid into meats
OF otherwise superior quality, the chief
reason for using antiseptics, artificial
colors and other adulterants Is to dis
gulse deficiencies, or Its method OF
preservation, and when these adulter.
atoms are restricted the result must
be a higher standard In the product ia
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 Is 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
antlseptlc and the anillne dye are the
chief means by which the consumer Is
deceived into believing that this In.
farlor or condemned meat Is pure and
wholesome