Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-24

7 WASHINGTON ID. IL oct 20 ~
order to satisfy himself as TO the trutf
of the charge that canning factory
garbage is worked up into tomato
pulp and preserved with benzoa'e o.
soda to be later manufactured inte
ketchap. the writer recently visited q
number OF tomato factories. He fouho
that this waste material is so utilized
and by means of the chemical pre-
SENTATIVE.
At the Denver convention OF the
etate national dairy and food depart
ments IN August, DIR. John II. Long
or the North western University
memhers OF the Remsen Board, gave
what purpoted TO be the history oil
an experiment in making ketehup with
and without benzoate ~ soda. Some
remarkable facts appearing In TINS
connection have excited comment. Dr
Long stated that the experiments
were undertaken lat the request oi
a large manufacturing firm and,
without doubt, one using benzoate OF
soda They were conducted along
lines formulated and promulgated Dy
an agency of the benzoate users, ana
IL IL charged that DR.. Long was In
duced TO make the experiments Ds
the same party who palmed OF rake
news item on the Associated Press In
Washington recently. II is probable
that the same agency was responsi-
Bile for an editorial in Denver news
paner several days before the conven-
ton suggesting such an experiment as
DIR Long conducted. for since ne re-
por.ed his statements have been wide
ly exploited by this agency. AS Dr.
Longs experiments in no way re-
,sembled the process of manufacturing
ketcnup commercially. it is proper TO
consider his conclusion that "benzo-
ate of soda conceal inferiority." as
that OF an expert appearing in be-
half of the drug.
The charge was made on me floor
of the convention that canning rae
tory garbage" was being utilized III
the manufacture OF ketchup, which
charge DR.. Long undertook to refute.
Instead of dealing with actual condi-
lions. or making a personal investi-
CATION, however, he reported that he
had made an experiment with a
mass of rotten tomatoes" furnished
by his manufacturing friends, to which
ne added some rotten peaches, apples
and bananas, collected by himself.
Part of this material he undertook
10 make up into ketchup, adding the
necessary vinegar, sugar and spices;
part he preserved with benzoate OF
soda, and part he allowed to continue
to rot. He found the first the more
palatable. But as benzCate OF soda
ketchup IL made with vinegar, sugar
and spices and DR.. Long did not use
the condintiens with his benzoate, II
is evident that no basis for fair COM
parison was obtained. Consequently
his experiments could by no chance
add anything to the scientific knowl-
edge of the subject or have any bear
ing en- the practical use OF benzoate
of soda in preserving commercial con-
dimental foods. Yet they have been
utilized 10 mislead the public.
In direct opposition 20 DIR. Longs
conclusions are the reports of DIR. A.
w. Biting. of the bureau of chemistry
of the department of agriculture. as
to what he found in the ketchup in
dustry when he Investigated it about
a year ago. DIR. biting reported:
In contrast with the strictly high
grade product is the great bulk OF
the ketchup found on the market
The material is not whole ripe to-
matoes. but consists of the waste OF
the canning factory. commonly des-
igaated as trimming stock inciud-
ing the green. moldy, broken, rotten.
and generally unusable tomatoes. the
skins. cores and stems from the peel
ing tables. and the surplus juice from
the filing machines. ali OF which may
be allowed to stand during the day
and be run through the cyclone in
the evening. AT the end of the sea