The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-31

culture, says: ''Benzoate of soda is
highly Objectionable and produces a
very serious disturbance of the meta
bolic functions attended with injury
points so strongly to the poisonous
properties of preservatives that their
use as a class should under the act,
be inhibited in foods and food prod
ucts."
DR.. G. Harlan Wells, president of the
Philadelphia Academy of Medicine,
says: There is absolutely no ade-
quate reason for the benzoate of soda
as a preservative for foods. To legal
ize its use would open up wide door
for fraud and endanger public health
| by making possible and profitable the
employment of inferior and unsuita-
/ bic materials in the manufacture of
food preparations. Dr. Albert P. Mat
thews, professor of physiological
chemistry, University of Chicago:
University of Chicago: Whatever
the final decision of this question Of
the effect on health of sodium ben
zoate, wise men will continue to re-
gard germicides, such as sodium ben
zoate, as lilly suspicious constitu-
ents of our foods, and, as far as pos
sible, purchase foods which are pre-
served in a clearly and healthy man.
ner, free from such germicides. We
should also express in some way to
DR.. Wiley our appreciation of the
splendid fight he has made in behalf
of all the people against the adulter-
ators and prisoners of our food sup
plies" DR.. S. E. Stallings, state
chemist for Georgia, says: There il
no occasion or necessity for the usa
of such chemicals as food preserve.
tiyes; and whether benzoate is dele
FERROUS to the consumer or not its
use ought to be severely prohibited
| because of the fact that it can aud
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 AMI
the fraud concealed by the use of ben,
poate of soda" Professor Charles Fl.
laval, chemist of Pennsylvania State
Dairy and Food Commission, speak
ing of the Remsen Boards report, says
The use of sodium benzoate is bad in
principle. 1t is unfair to the con
| sumner The experiments conducted
| by the referee (Remsen) board were
made on healthy persons and did not
clear away the doubts as to the danger
Of using this preservative. The pro
cess of using benzoic acid in pre-
| pairing meat is an indication that we
are going back 5000 years; for ben.
zoin or its products has not been used
in the preservation of flesh since the
Egyptians stopped embalming their
dead. Discussing the constituents
of benZoate of soda, DR.. II. S. Black
more, of Washington, D. c., says: The
drug contains the active principles Of
carbolic acid. a corrosive poison. and
| acetanilid, much used in metricius
headache powders, which are CON
demned by every reputable physician,
other contents are constituents of for
maldehyde and of benzoyl, the active
principle Of cocaine. Upon the effect
of the drug when consumed by invalids
and young children, the Referee Rem
sen board did not pass
DR.. Christian A. Herter, of Column
bia University, one of the three ey-
perimenting members of the Remsen
board, in discussing in his report Ger
tain deviations from the physiological
functions of his subjects, says: eve
would offer the hypothesis that the
phenomena in question are best ac-
counted for by the supposition that
the gastric-enteric mucosa in some
part Of its course had been subjected
to slight stimulant or Initiative ac-
ton and that this action was exerted
| by the continued use of rather large
| doses of sodium benzoate"
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