Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-08
DOPED MEATS ARE RUSHED
 ON MARKETS
Ruling of National Authorities Allowing Use of Benzoate of Soda Is Quickly Taken Advantage of
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UAHAAt.N9 ClNs ApAA t.-NRHltk ID Follow up the advantage opened to them by the rul'ng of the national au- thOrites permitting the use cf ben suzte of soda in un limited quant ties Tn food products. the beef packers have rushed their doetored meats on the market.
 No matter in what section of the country you may llys, ID matter aow remote from the beef pack'n ng centers st is only a question of time until em- baImed beef will reach you, provid- ing. of course. you are a user of pre- served meats. It should be under stood the order about which there is so much complaint has nothing to do gita the fresh meat sold by your To- cal butcher
 Meat and meat products dcctored wifn benzoate of soda have already been placed fer sale with dealers in most of the large oasYrn cities. Many firms. however. refused to han dc products in which benzcate oF soda had been used. This class Of dealers is. being warned that their competitors are accepting goods in which benzoate of soda has been used and that unless they meet th's com petition by cheapening their product. their busin ss will suffer. There is but one barrier to the r'ch harvest shich the packers plan to reap. ana tdat is a few of the states have laws prohibiting the sale of food products sn which the drug permitted by the government is used.
 4 significant feature of the use of beuzoaIe Of soda Is the position taken by many reputable dealers. tbat chemicals are cf no value to honest dealers. The only value of the drug # is claimed by the manufacturers of the better grades of food products. who have stubbornly fought the legal fxiBg of the use of benzoate of soda, is to make inferior goods bright and normal.
 'sBenzoate of soda is of no earthly use to the manufacturer who puts pure foods upon the market. sad Louis Burk. president of the Phla- desphie Pork Packers Association The only purpose for which 1t can be used is to defraud the customer. IL is absolutely offensive and Cbjec- tioBsb'e. But lot of manufacturers of food products will use it. irrespect- i've Of it's eject on putlie health. Take the big firms which rrcduce sausage and bologna for instance. The crst of manufacture ot sausage may be materially reduced by using vater on the cereals.
 "Water costs nothi0e and tha ce- real Is rheaD. T'-a result is cheap eninz of the product and a lowering of the food value PUt when water and cereal is added the meat begins to sour. It is to prevent this sour ing process that benzoate of soda may be used.
 If the bo'ogna maker wants to use a cheap kind of meat benzoate of soda will permit him to d. 1t.
 "Now that the government has given it's sanction to the use of the drug there is not the s slightest doubt but that the country " II speedily be Traded down w'th doctored gods. Dr. Wiley. the head Of the buTa9u of chemistry at Washington. hsld ben zoate of soda to be object enable, but Eas overruled by the referee board. The ruling Is thg opening wedge to- ward weakening or destroying the national pure food laws wlich dis honest manufacturers have long sought Dr. Wiley not only fought fer q pure food law for fiftesn years. but has endeayore1 tJ faithfully pro tect the people from interruptions manufacturers. Certain inter- sts have endeayored to get Dr. Wiley's position, and it is now rumCred he usv resign. These rumOrs were started by ais enemies, ne doubt, who are doing everything under the sun to get him removed in crder that they may 20 along manufacturing dishon est goods
 Scores of honest manufacturers ol preserved goods are taking up pr Wiley's fight agains, the use ot ben xnate of soda The Druggists Cir esIar in a recent issue deplored ta' fact that po'it'cs frequently IS brought to bsar on Dr. Wiley to caust him to be 'enientin his rulings affect Enx products of certain f0odstuffs. Dr. Wiley is praised fer his de terrn'ned stand against unscrupulou manufacturers.
 The official publication Of the drue xisfs exrrosses the bsief taat th pablic. whle it may n~t be iatereste in many steps taken by the govern
 nent which do not appear to direc ly affect it. when awakened to tn fact that it is paying for pure food
 md q ting sfrff that was s3yed froi rott'ng by chemicals and t"en art feiaIIy col~red tn iN"k fresh an wholesome. Is not lively io allow th
 nanipulators and r'isbranders to il
 ~- in their. bInra gam under governmental protection"