Arizona republican., 1909-06-08

cal college: Tt defeats the efforts
 of the human system to assimilate ol | destroy it.'
 Dr. Harvey w. Wiley, chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture sass: "Benzoate of soda is highly objectionable and produces very serious disturbance of the metaboliC functions attended with injury tc digestion and health. The evidence points so strongly to the poisonous properties of conservatives that theil use as a class should under the act be inhibited in foods and food pro- ducts"
 Dr. G. Harlan Wells, president of the Philadelphia Academy of Medi- cine, says: "There is absolutely no adequate reason for the benzoate of soda as a preservative TOT foods. To legalize it's use would open up a wide door for fra"d and endanger public health by making possible and profitable the employment of inferior and unsuitable materials Tn the. man. ufacture of food preparations"
 Dr. Albert P. Matthews, professor of physiological chemistry, 'Univer- sity of Chicago: "Whatever the final decision of this question of the eff feet on health of sodium benzoate, wise men will continue to regard germicides, such as sodium benzOate, as highly suspicious constituents of our foods, and, as far as possible, purchase foods which ure preserved in a cleanly and healthy manner, free from such germicides. We should also express in some way to Dr. Wiley our appreciaIion of the splendid fight he has made in be- half of all the people against the adulterators and poisoners of food supplies"
 pr. R. E. Sailing, state chemist for Georgia, says; There is no occasion or necessity for the use of such chemicals as food preservatives and whether benzoate is deleterious to the consumer or not, it's use ought to be severely prohibited be- cause of the fact that it can and does conceal unwholesomeness and even incipient decay. There is no question in my mind that decayed and worthless fruits, vegetables and meats have been mixed with good ones and the fraud concealed by the use of benzoate of soda."
 Prof. Charles H. LaWall, chem ist of Pennsylvania State Dairy and Food commission, speaking of the Remsen Boards report, says; "The use of sodium benZOate is bad in principle It is unfair to the con- sumer The experiments conducted by the referee (Remsen) board were made on healthy persons and did not clear away the doubts as to the dan ger of using this preservative. The process of using benzoic acid in preparing meat is an indication that we are going back 5000 years; for benzoin or it's products has not been used in the preservation of flesh since the Egyptians stopped embalming their dead" Discussing the constiu ents of benzoate of soda, Dr. H. s. Blackmore, of Washington. D. C., says: The drug contains the active principles of carbolic acid, a cOrro- sive poison, and acetanilid, much used in metricius headache powders, which are condemned by every re- putable physician; other contents are constituents of formaldehyde and of benzoyl. the active priciple of cocaine. Upon the effect of the drug when consumed by invalids and young chill dren. the Referee Remsen board did not pass"
 Dr. Christian A. Herter, of Colum- bia university, one of the three eX-. perimenting members of the Remsen| board in discussing in his report cer-1 tain deviations from the physiologi-H cal functions of his subjects. says We would offer the hypothesis that the phenomena in question are best accounted for by the supposition that the gastro- o-enteric mucosa in some part of it's course had been sub jected to slight stimulant or initiative action and that this action was ex- erted by the continued use of rather large doses of sodium benzoate"
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