Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1916-04-11
FEDERAL REGULATION
OF DAIRY PRODUCTS
Inspection Of Milk, Butter and
Cream Demanded.
DISEASE FROM ANIMAL TO MAN
Nauseating Changes Of Filth That Dairy
Products Are Most Active in Spread
of Disease.


Federal regulation and inspection Of
milk butter and other dairy products
was Gemaudel recently in Congress bv
Rerresertetive J. Charles Linthicum
who. ia singing arraignment Of the
butter and dairy interests. asked thar
action be taken on House Resolution
l37. calling for the appointment of a
committee TO investigate the truth of
charges that milk, butter,ice cream and
other products of milk are in. I'm many
cases n,thy. disease breeding and I'M
it for human consumption
In q speech that held the attention OF
iae House ana The galleries Repre-
sentative iinuicUm said
. eA3 milk product, enter more
ulversalv nl intimately into human
1a-nh and happiness than any other
as 'i tsc FOOLS The safety and good
H.me Of mi.A AND milk products there.
fore. should be guarded BY the federal,
state 9ud municipal authorities more
vlr-faIlv Sham ary other food Yet
strange To say. somehow Congress has
given less attention TO these. the great
cst og an human nccess stiles than is any
other question materially ;necting the
health and prosperity of our people.
$50 far rs the federal government is
concerned d0iries eraaMegies. central
inr plants and butter factories may
be said to 'rIn wide open Under these
conditions It is wblely claimed that the
most OUTRAGEOUS and extensive crime
re committed against the lives and
80 4
the most stupeudous frauds agah rs the
revenues Of the government. and the
GOOD meme of American made goods i'm
foreign markets.
"If these charges are true. then the
Congress ought at once enact ade-
luara laws for prevention. If they are
Intruo thop there should he de mite
celairm"ut hat lhey are untrue So
t.gt aii our raopIe may freely and ir
ea-iurly 3v1il themselves of milk
and milk products. known TO bc the
1ealthiest all most nutritious Of aI the
foods when produced and distributed
maer proper sanitary methods ~ d
not pretend to have personal luowI-
edge but Z feel il nay duty To cal the
attention of Congress to some of The
charges which are made against Tie
dairy industry in this country and TO
press upon your attention the import
anCe of tlc INVESTIGATION called lor.
A resume OF the charges toll ara
conclusions reached by Representative
u,hicum Included the following
Daiics. creamaries ard ccuua'*
inc pants and butter factories run
wide open" SO far as the federal gov
crument IS concerned; 6lthy cream Of
ten is in putrid state, is frequently
SHIPPED great distances to creameries
TO be made into butter: an examination
of ] .554 lots OF cream shipred to cream
cries and Cream-buy.nr stations show
ed that 967 lots were Of third gvale
cream that is dirty, ,decomposed or very
sour, much of the fresh golden "June
color" of butter according to the
American Food Journal. IS produces
bv tae use OF annattc Wegner's
Chemical Technology, published i'm
1887, says that annette is utterly unfit
for butter soloring as it is frequently
made up with animal excredons and il
swarms with bacteria.
Nauseating as are the charges Of
filth. another count charges that these
products are among the most active
agens In the spread of disease Tu-
berculosis is one of the diseases that
may be passed from animal to man
Tubercle baccilli are frequently found
i'm milk anti butter Hoard's Dairyman
says 1T is row thoroughly recognized
that this danger is very much greater
in the case of infants and the young
rather than with adults The by-pro-
duts are not the only substance that
offer The neags s of carrying disease
We know that some investigators
found that out of ,233 samples of
butter examined. 163, or 1872 per cent.
were found to contain these organ
isms" 1t is charged that certain but
ter factories have practiced fraud.
The annual report of the Secretary
of the Treasury for 1915 says: One
case was discovered during the current
year where the amount out of which
the government has been defrauded
reached a total of 81 SOB .2O3.30. all of
the product in this case, while not
butter. was placed on the market as