The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-10-22
A Food Warming
wv ~ AnDINCrnN uRVCE
Author - rhc lIddio u Person
HIftr PISS chDIowy and
nlrenthnod ere.

This summer. urged by patriotic
tesit, fo 60 operate iu food couser
|Nallun American housewives canned
% ungsnal quantity of fruits and
vegetables MUDh ~ this canning
Was dome oy the socalled cold pack
method
NoU. thru the columns ~ the
journal of Che American Medical as
soclation. a san Francisco physl
clan pT Ernest T. Dickson. am.
r0unces thar food thus canned
-hoWi never Dee eaten fresh from
ihe can. bat for safefys sake should
always be th0roly cooked before be
Ink eaten
10 appears that certain polson.
ous germ. bac.l.rs hotullnus. SOME
times develops 81 food whether ami
( NAL or vegetable. canned by cold
packing This germ causes severe
symptoms which may terminate In
/ death
And. according % tho San Fran
cisco physician. & IS germ par
ticularly liable 20 develop IN canned
vegetables and fruits. Says On
Dickson
I'm order 20 test the efficiency o.
Che cold pack method OF canning
vegetables which may be contami
nafod hy spores % the y botuliuus.
a number 81 Jars ~ peas beans.
and corn were prepared according
20 tho directions described In The
daily press
Each Jar was inoculsted With an
emulsion containing spores o. the
p bcuiinus before lt was placed
r. me wash boiler.
"The one quart Jars OF peas and
beans were left IN the boiling wa
ter Tor en- minutes. and those Of
corn rere heated FOR $50 minutes
The ars were sealed Immediately
~cr removed from The boiler, and
eev inverted and placed IN a dark
et
Ulth,n two weeks n WAS noted
ha the contents OF AL the Jars
hsd unlerrone a fermentation with
he farmnt ora - gas. and that some
them vcre leaking When the
jars were orCncf there was a strong
o3or which vefemhled butyric acid.
a03 cultures ~ fhe Juice from all
-he 1ars showed a mixture az p.
totllrls and p suhtilis.
Porl ions u the juice from AL the
fairs were injected into Eulnea-pigs
aud some ~ thn peas were Tod a. a
chicken All tho glinea-pigs died
within e hours. and the chicken
de, e'opcd symptoms ~ llmberneck
anH llrd ~ithin 30 hours.
"a portion % ne juice from the
corn was passed thru a diatomace
gs litter and injected into a guinea
pig. and the animal died within 20
hours
Fortunately. DIT Dickson II able
20 add
The hotulinus toxin = easily de-
stroyed by heat!ng and All danger
OF ho.ulsm wiz be removed from
home canned products n tho food is
ALWAYS boiled before u Is eaten or
even tasted
"T adler no circumstances should
homecanned vegetables which have
! been prepared ~ The cold pack
method De served rs salad. unless
tttrry rHvr nrFu cooked AFTER their
removal from he container
And until 81 Is established what
fruits are sJifabl Tor the lorna
ton ~ tho tox'n. ~ VIII be safer %
rahca' ail fruits which have boon
preserved by this method, even
I tho there may be- no apparent eVi.
dence that the fruit has spoiled"
pass this warning on 20 my
readers. feeling that Il is ono which
ought 20 be given the widest pub
/ licity
Act on Dr Dckson's advice.
Don faU into a panic about your
/ coldpacked fruits and vegetable.
But always heat them well before
using
This may cause you ltte
trouble. and cost a littls time. B1t
gre'v you viii gruige neither Tho
zine nor The trouble IA the Interest
Of your health and OF the health 81
/ those dear 20 you