Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
AND NOSE
FINE BADFOOD
DETECTORS
Agriculture Department Gives
Valuable Advice to Housewives
On Preventing Disease,

WASHINGTON, D. c., June 30
The Department Of Agriculture to-
day issued the following practical
suggestions in regard to keeping food
and drink in hot weather, with
view to helping the public to avoid
sickness from eating spoiled articles
of diet:
while people should be careful
about the condition of food at all sea-
sons of the year, should be par
ticularly watchful during the sum
mer.
In hot weather bacteria multiply
far more rapidly than in cold wealth
err and produce chemical changes in
some foods which greatly lessen their
nutritive value and often make them
unfit for human consumption.
The housewife will find eyes and
nose the safest practical detectives.
II any article has any suspicion OF
an unusual odor or looks abnormal
II should be avoided.
Have a Care in Cafes.
Persons eating in doubtful res
taurant should be particularly care
full about meats or fish cooked with
a highly spiced or aromatic sauce
which might disguise a bad taste or
warning odor. Only sweet smelling,
clean food should be eaten. Spotted,
green, Shiny, or frothy raw meat, or
meat which is soft in spots also
should be regarded with suspicion.
Taste is a supplementary test, but
| one to be used after eyes, nose, and
| fingers. A mother, before she allows
her child to eat anything, should ex-
anime 1t carefully in a good light,
smell 1t. and finally taste it.
Milk particularly detertorates rap
idly under summer heat, especially
| II II already contains bacteria. House
| wives, therefore, should see to II that
milk, after being left by the milk
man, does not stand for any length of
| time before it is put in the ice box.
| Milk bottles should be kept closed,
| both in the ice-boX and out of 1t. II
| there is any doubt at all, pasteurize
/ the milk.
IAN foods should be kept covered
or wrapped, and always out of the
| reach of flies, which are deadly car
riers of typhoid. A persistent battle
should be waged against flies in all
parts of the home
| "Uncooked foods, as a general prop
osition, should be avoided. Children
| should not be allowed to eat the
| skins of fruits, especially fruits which
| have been exposed to flies or street
dirt or unscreened stands or push
| carts.
Warning TO Vaeationists.
| Those who go away should not
get the idea that everything in a
! summer resort or strange city is
necessarily pure and wholesome. The
! danger of typhoid fever in country re-
sorts is very great. Insist on boiled
| water. If you can not get boiled
water, make very sure about the
reputation of springs, wells, or tap
water.
THE fiat taste which boiled water
| has soon after it has been boiled Is
due to the fact that boiling drives out
of it the air which it held in solution.
If the water, after boiling, is put in
| scalded. shallow, open pans and al
| lowed to stand for "a hours where
the flies or dirt can not get at 1t. 1t
will regain its air and have its usual
| taste restored by the second day.
Finally. II is particularly impor-
| tant in summer that people should
not be misled into believing that the
| label Guaranteed under the Food and
| Drugs Act on cans and packages
/ means that the Government has pro-
nounced the food pure and desirable.
| The guarantee is made wholly by
| the manufacturer, and means no
more than when your corner grocer
guarantees that the sugar he weighs
| out for you is all right"