The evening times., 1911-07-26
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FOOD EXHIBIT
IS FINE
State Inspector Z. B. Heiberg
Gives Talks For Benefit
Of Visitors Daily

OF Minnesota which was secured
through the efforts of the Women's
civic league and is taking the place
OF the North Dakota exhibit which
was destroyed in the burning of the
chemical building at the agricultural
college is excellent and E. B. Heiberg
OF st. Paul, food inspector of the
Minnesota dairy and food department,
and his assistant, A. Palmquist. are
sparing neither their time nor their
lungs IN informing the hundreds of
visitors of the impure, illegal and
adulterated foods. These two gentle
men are In charge of the exhibit and
the pure food committee of the local
league is receiving much notoriety
through their generosity.
Inc exhibit was one OF the features
OF the Minnesota state fair last year
and also the Minneapolis pure food
SHOW but many new discoveries have
oeen added since that time which
Minnesota people have not yet seen.
The illegal use Of coal tar dyes in
candies. ice cream cones, salmon,
meats, wines, jellies, elders, pickles,
extracts and cherries is very notice.
ably brought out as on each sample
OF the impure foods is tied a piece Of
flannel dyed brilliant greens, reds and
yellows from the juices of the differ
ent foods In which these dyes are
used. Coal tar dyes, Mr.. Heiberg ex-
planned, are identically the same as
the famous Diamond dyes which ev-
eryone knows to be poisonous.
To further illustrate these dyes, Mr..
Heiberg has on display large doll
attired in a frock, hat and parasol of
many colors dyed from the several
candies shown in his display Of H.
legal sweets. There is also a colored
map Of Minnesota and a patchwork
sofa pillow made from the same
poison extracted from foods which for
years were offered for sale and rel
ished by the unknowing public.
A mixture Of ground dyed beans
and chicory is shown which was Of
fered for sale as high priced coffee,
pepper which is ninety-five percent
sawdust is another, fraudulent pro-
duct, candies and cakes sweetened
with sacharine instead Of sugar, diff
ferent spices made from ground saw
dust, olive stones, peanut shells,
wheat screenings and corn meal,
chocolate made Of -four darkened with
lamp black. cottonseed oil offered as
imported olive oil. Hnseed oil which
is eighty-two percent kerosene, maple
sugar made of ground corn cobs,
brown sugar and glucose, jelly which
is mixture of glucose, muriatic acid
and the sweepings and refuse from a
cider mill, and hundred other things
offered as the real or imported goods
which are nothing but chemical mix
lures colored and favored with pois-
ons. Port wine, butter, vinegar, all
kinds Of extracts, lard, honey, pickles,
elders, green and red cherries and
evaporated milk come in for much
adulteration.
Mr.. Heiberg tells Of several in
stances where tons of these impure
foods are conf1scated by the state
pure food department and the Offend
ers fined from $50 to 5000. One in
stance was during the holidays last
year when he purchased from several
peddlers consignments of walnuts
which they were Offering at "three
pounds for a quarter" and found them
to be decayed and rotten nuts with
not a mite of good meat in them. A
poor grade of salmon was also found
to be smoked with creosote and coll
ored with coal tar. Ice cream cones
are often found made Of an illegal
mixture and dyed to represent the
brown of baking.
He has a sample Of hamburger
steak which he purchased in this city
and preserved with teaspoonful of
iceine which, a few years ago. was the
butchers best friend. 1t is poison
Gus chemical used to retain the color
and fresh look Of tainted meat. His
sample will be az fresh looking next
Saturday as it is today.
Mr.. Heiberg is quite elated over the
new law which prevents the shipment
into this country or the offering for
sale Of anything but uncolored teas.
While soapstone which has been used
to color teas in the past is not harm
full it gave opportunity for the sale
Of many inferior grades which is not
now possible.
Neither Mr.. Heiberg nor Mr.. Palm
quist ever tire Of talking so anyone
interested in what they are eating or
what their grocers offer them should
not fail to see the pure food exhibit.
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