New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-16
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ice cream substances, particularly when II Is
strawberry Ice cream that it is sought to irrl-
tate.
But the things done in the name Of Ice
cream are no worse than those perpetrated in
the name of mIk-not so bad when II is real
lied that milk Is a necessity for practically
the entire infant population. In the case OF
milk, however, public opinion has been reused
20 such an extent 10 make the laws protect
ing its purity the most wholesomely respected
of all pure food regulations The slightest
laxity in their enforcement, however, leads to
wholesale fraud. The candidate for director
in the Bureau OF Food Inspection writes as
follows of his experiences in this connection:
CITY'S MILK SUPPLY DRUGGED
WITH EMBALMING FLUID.
"I was charged with the inspection Of tho
entire food supply Of a large city, including
milk, with limited appropriation Of $1,000
year for laboratory work, milk and cream an
alyses costing 81 each-an examination being
necessary for butter fat, content Tornado
hyde, boric acid and color Eighteen inspec-
tors employed by the local authorities did
not seem TO be sufficient 70 produce results.
Notwithstanding local inspectors, found the
city milk supply drugged with embalming
fluid, robbed of its butter fat and reinforced
with a color
He employed two young girls TO accom-
pany him and sailed forth with them at 4
o'clock in the morning to meet the milkmen
their rounds. The girls, without hats and
with pitchers properly sterilized, would ap-
proach the mkmen in the street in the guisc
OF residents OF the neghborhood, and the
milkmen would sell them samples for an
alysis in the belief that they were adding new
customers to their lists. Each morning
different neighborhood was canvassed until
the entire city had been covered. AS result
of the analyses and of the consequent rous-
ing OF public indignation jail sentences were
imposed in many cases the salutary effect OF
which was plainly evident when year later,
adopting the same plan, the inspector found
only one "embalmed" milk case and about $50
skinned and watered milk cases in 1000 sam
plies taken.
Which brings us 10 a consideration Of the
egg traffic, in which fraud and horror nun
dead heat for first place. First, there comes
the comparatively gentlemanly practice of the
season Of high prices, erase the identifying
marks from the egg packages carried in
storage since the preceding April, the eggs
contained in them being sold as fresh and
bringing only few cents below the price of
the really fresh eggs. These storage houses
also carry thousands of cans OF frozen eggs
broken out" in China, which they sell to pas
try bakers Provided these eggs can pass the
Federal inspection the chief objection TO their
use is our ignorance in this country of the
conditions of sanitation under which they
were broken out" and canned.
But in view Of the deliberate traffic In rot
ten eggs it seems almost hypercritcal to en-
phasize these minor tricks. To escape the
stringent regulations against this traffic deal
ers now purchase rejected eggs, professedly to
use them in tanning leather but really to use
them in the preparation of foods. Recent
regulations require that such eggs be denat-
ured Instead they are sprinkled with water
to mslead inspectors, and sometimes when