Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-28
WOMEN HELP IN
FOOD FRAUDS, SAYS
NEW YORK EXPERT
Claims Majority Want Eatables
That Look Pretty on
the Table.

NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-Ihe danger
Gus craving of women for food prod
ucts that look pretty on the table
| and the consequent reimbursement to
manufacturers to impair the purity of
nutritive viands by injecting harmful
chemicals into them to make them
pleasant to the eye was denounced in
an address at the pure food show in
Madison Square Garden yesterday b.
Alfred w. Mccain, food expert. In the
course of his speech Mccain described
in detail many of the yiands that are
thus tempered with. The only remedy
for this peril to the health of the ma
ton, he insisted, lies in creating the
office of national medical adviser. Such
an official, the speaker aYerred, could
indicate to the President what legis-
lation was necessary to prevent the
Generalization of food supplies by un-
scrupulous manufacturers
Modern woman, Mccain said. is more
interested in the outward appearance
and taste of the things she eats than
in their ingredients. If she can obtain.
at bargain prices, big, round peas,
gloriously green in hue, she never stops
to inquire how the firms by whom the
peas are canned are able to give her
such dainties. The fact such perilous
drugs as sulphate OF copper are mixed
with vegetables of an inferior qualitT
to provide that beautiful emerald color,
Mccain remarked, Is unknown to her.
Therefore, until women, he added, ara
taught by the government what is good
and what Is bad, the health of the
whole country will continue to de-
generate.
Furthermore, the food expert urged.
all distributors and makers of food
products should be licensed, a measure
long advocated by DR.. Harvey w.
Wiley, of the department of agricui-
ture. The retail grocer, observed Nc
Cam, should be compelled to stand the
scrutiny of government inspectors as
rigidly as the druggist, who distributes
the cures for ills caused by food TAl-
purities. BY having a physician in the
Presidents cabinet, the speaker ex-
planned, not only would the, public b.
guarded properly against food frauds,
but the manufacturers would be taught
they could not tamper with clean and
nourishing eatables without suffering
prosecution and punishment.
Mccain said in part:
Woman does not want foods in the
natural order, and as a result she asks
for a pickle which will resist the teeth.
The manufacturer at once gives it to
her by using an astringent, alum,
which toughens the tissues and pro-
duces the effect desired. She wants
anemic crackers and biscuits and
bread and the manufacturer beaches
the creamy wheat with nitrogen per-
oxide and grlnds out OF 1t the vital
elements upon which she and her
family depend for their energy and
strength. If he were licensed and if
1t were a crime to debase or impover- !
ish any foodstuffs he could not tres
pass against all laws of decency by
assisting her to Create an artificial
standard. inimical in a large degree to
the health of the nation. She asks for
a brilliant green string bean or spinach
or pea or plum. and her desire is graft
fed with sulphate of copper She is
perfectly satisfied TO eat the white
Swiss cheese, but she wants yellow
butter and yellow American cheese, and
the dairy Immediately provides the ar
ti1cial color scheme. She wants fancy
desserts thar sciptillate under the eler-
trio bulb, and coal tar is at once split
up and its dyes made ready for the
eye
"She wants a semi-transparent pale
ness for her mushrooms, apples. april
cots. peaches and pears, and ~sulphurous
acid is summoned to do the work. She
wants her chocolate and her sweet
meats 'fussv,' and Immediately eigh.
legalized others and sever legaliZed
analine colors are brought to the res
cue. She wants a package or a bottle
or a jar of the impossible at a bargain
price and forty-fve filters or body
makers are invented to supply the
bulk required. She isn't particular
about b~y-products or waste products
and the small print which Uncle Sam
feebly insists shall appear on chemical
ly preserved compounds is unnoticed
by her. Tomato pulp II apple pulp.
manufactured from skins and cores.
apple Juice. potato -four. corn starch,
phosphoric acid, citric acid, tartaric
acid, sulphur dioxide and b%enzoate of
soda make it possible for the I'M
licensed manufacturer to get her PEN
MES"
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