Chicago eagle., 1908-04-04

sauSageS at the North DakOta State
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 81, 63, 81. 65 aud dG
of Part 9 of the fifteenth annual re.
port of the Food Commissioner of North
Dakota, 1905
Lab. No. 1914 (page 62).
Brand. dried beef. Armour's sliced
star.
Producer or jobber. Armour 4 Co.,
Chicago.
Contains boratcs.
Lab. No. 1884 (page G3).
Brand. Vienna sausage.
Producer or jobber. Armour & Co.,
Chicago.
Contains boratcs.
Lab. No. 2O16 (page 63).
Brand. sliced dried beef. White.
Producer or jobber. Armour Packing
Co.. Kansas City.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 2t32 (pagc 63).
Brand. breakfast bacon. Gold.
Producer or jobber. Armour Packing
Co.. Kansas City.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 2442 (page 64).
Brand. sliced ham.
Producer or jobber. Armour 4 Co..
Chicago.
Contains sulphites and borates.
Lab. No. 2iGO (page So.
Brand. Bologna sausage.
Producer or jobber, Swift & Co.,
Chicago.
Contains borates.
Lab. 2iSl (page So.
Brand. Bologna sausage.
Producer or jobber. Swift 4 Co.. Chi.
cago.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 240O (pagc Coy.
Brand. Bologna sausage.
Producer or jobbcr. Armour 4 Co.,
Chicago.
Contains boracic acid or borates.
Lab. No. 2i0l (page 86).
| Brand. canvas sausage.
Producer or jobber, Swift & Co., Chi.
cago.
Contains borates.
Lab. No. 2i1S (paee 64).
Brand. breakfast bacon, Gold.
Producer or jobber, Armour. Packing
Co.. Kansas City.
Contains boratcs.
We take the following from pages
30. 10 and Gl 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
colorlng matter, or both:
"ArmOur 4 Co., Chicago.
Kentucky Packing & Provision
Company, Louisville.
"Swlft & CO.. Chicago.
John Huffman. Cincinnati.
"Scliwarzschild 4 Sulzberger, Chlca'
90.
Jacob vogei & Sons, Cincinnati
Ohio.
Evansville Packing Company. Ev
ansville. Ind.
"Omaha Packing Company, Omaha
Neb.
"Cudahy Packing Company, St
Louis.
"Pfaffinger & Co., Louisville.
"Rausch 4 Ruger, Louisville.
"Nelson Morris & Co., Chicago.
"Kineghar & Co., indianapolis.
"rhe German American Provision
Company, Chicago.
"In the fall OF 1905. Mr.. C. J. Tress
Ter. attorney for Swift 4 Company
called at the office and stated that
Swift & Co. had eliminated boracit
acid and color from meat product.
FOR SALE IN KENTUCKY. and tina,
there would be no further shipments
ntaining these substances into the
state"
The report continues
"The packing houses need inspection
to control adulterations 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 antlseptics, artificial
| colOrs and other adulterants Is to dis
| guise deficiencies, or Its method OF
preservation, and when these adulter
atlons are restricted the result mus
be a higher standard In the product tt
be packed, better methods Of packing
and preservation and a more whole
some and perfect food"
"Reccnt investigations have undoubt
edly shown that the federal inspec
tion over the physiological condition OF
packing house meats Is not thorough
and that some Of the animal PROD
UCr UNFIT FOR FOOD IS PUT UF
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
fsrlor or condemned meat is pure and