The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-14
BARNARD
TALKS To
DA|RYNEN
State Pure Food and Drug
Commissioner Says Milk
men Have Much to Learn
From Breweries in the
Way of Cleanliness.
TINES BUREAU
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.

indianapolis. Ind, Aug. H. - H. E.
Barnard. state food and drug commis-
sioner, does not believe in beer drink
ing-not on your life He does not
advocate it. nor does he advise people
TO drink beer. But he does point to
the breweries as the most sanitary and
cleanly food producing place in the
country. He says bottled beer is the
only real pure. sanitary food product
that Is on the market in any form
Diaries Could Lenrn from .Brevverfes
Ihis may seem strange. but Mr.. Barn
ard believes other food producers, es-
pecially milk and butter men Of the
state would do well to study the sani-
tary management of breweries He
proposes to impress on the milk and
butter men when they meet in this
city soon in their annual meeting. the
fact that dairies are too dirty. as they
are operated now. and that the dairy
men could learn much in cleanliness
from the brewer-as.
Advertise Cleanliness.
The milk and butter men of Indiana
ought to go in a body and visit the
breweries Of this or other states" said
Mr Barnard. lin order to see how
clean food producing establishment
may be made. The brewers. in order,
to protect their trade have been COM
! PEELED 10 resort to the cleanest and
most sanitary methods of production,
until it is fact that the cleanest and
most sanitary food on the market now
! IS beer. The trade in this article has
been fraught with so much opposition
/ that the manufacturers have resorted
i to cleanliness as an Advertising feat
ure. and they have made it pay Then,
too. the product of tho brewery is a
perishable article of exceedingly short
, life unless it is prepared properly and
cared for until it is consumed.
Everything SteriIized.
1T is in the breweries that the
| sanitation has been brought to as near
q perfect conditions as is possible in
a food producing establishment. The
water used in the material IS all dis
! titled, the hops. and malt are absolute
| ly clean before being allowed to enter
into the manufacturing process: the
/ is. pipes. etc. are not merely wash
/ ed, but are scalded and thoroughly
sterilized before being used: the bottles
before being filled are thoroughly ster-
ilized by being washed in caustic soda.
And if that We're not enough. when the
beer is placed in the bottles it is past
eurized by being run through hot wat
er. which would kill every germ that
might have escaped the warfare con-
Quoted against it IN the process of
manufacture. The person who opens a
bottle of beer is assured absolutely
that what he has before him is prod
uct absolutely free from germs and per-
fectly clean. 1t is also true that he
may know that he has before him al
most the only manufactured food prod
uct. which IS known to be absolutely
pure.
2 The D@i-ymnn's Method.
But the dairyman seems to believe
! that II is not necessary for him TO take
! any precaution as has been taken by
the brewer to adopt sanitary surrounds
ings as an economic measure. As il is.
/ he draws the milk from the COW into a
pail which has been merely washed.
and IN lul1ewarm water and not TOO
clean water. at that The milk is then
placed without proper precautions for
killing the germs contained therein.
into bottles which haze also been mere
ly washed in water through which
, many bottles have been washed. The
bottles are then sold. and if not used
r at once. the milk begins TO spoil. a
! thing which never happens % beer un-
j less the bottle is opened and the con-
tents exposed 10 the air
The trouble is that mHkmen have
2 had things all too easy all this time
5 While the brewers were being pestered
: almost to death BY the public and
! were prompted to install the best pos