Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-03
OLIVES PACKED IN TIN
CONTAINERS WHOLESOME
AND FREE FROM POISON

Sims, Roberts & Co, have sup
Piled us with the following state
ment from one of the great olive
packing companies of California
we publish it as news because of the
public interest aroused in the olive
poisoning cases:
There were five cases in all re-
ported Every one of these cases
was caused by eating olives packed
in glass jars which We're not prop
erly sterilized. ....
Government reports show there
has never been case of poisoning
from olives packed in tin cans,
"Of the above mentioned cases
three were caused by one lot OF
about twenty dozen glass jars OF
olives packed by one firm in one
day. One case was attributed to
ripe stuffed olives, packed in glass
jars. The remaining one case was
packed in glass jars by another
factory
Mote. None Of these cases was
caused by olives packed in tin cans.
I'VE have no hesitancy in saying.
that there never Will be a case OF
poisoning from olives packed in tin
cans, sterilized by our process.
San Diego is the birthplace OF
lIlG Ilpt OllNS IVY 49,
first trees were planted in America
by the Old Nilsson Fathers. Here
the first ripe olives were packed in
tin cans by us.
For eighteen years we have
been packing ripe olives in TIN cans,
and millions OF cans have gone to
the consumer from our plant.
There has never been a case of any
kind of illness caused by our olives.
The same process of sLerlllzing
has been used during all of these
years and is still being used. There
fore, with the above facts in view,
is there any reason why anyone
should fear to eat our olives packed
in tin cans'
The following quotation from the
United States public health reports
issued by the public health service,
Washington, ID. c., under date or
February 10, 1920, is pertinent
investigations so far carried on
have shown that fatalities due to
the consumption of olives nave
been limited TO ripe olives packed
in glass. No cases have been re-
ported from the consumption of
olives packed in tin
THE health authorities OF Penn
sylvania have just conducted an
exhaustive examination and investi-
cation of California ripe olives.
Two hundred and fifty-four sam
pies were examined representing
seventy-one different brands and
all of them were found to be in per-
feet condition as regards their
preservation. They conclude their
report as follows:
In our opinion the chances Of
poisoning are so extremely remote
that the olive-consumlng public,
who favor the ripe variety, may re-
sumo their diet with a feeling Of
perfect security
Signed by Charlie II. LAVAL,
dean of Philadelphia College Of
Pharmacy, and Randie c. koserl-
berger, bacterlologist, Philadelphia
general hospital.
The ABOVE are the facts in the
poisoning cases which have recent
~ caused such unfayora BILE pub
licity regarding our industry.
I'VE submit these facts, believing
that your sense of fairness will con-
vince you that it is to your inter-
est TO support this great California
industry, which saw its beginning in
San Diego.
We maintain that ripe olives, as
packed by US, are one of Califor-
MAS most palatable and nutritious
foods, and may be used with the
greatest confidence that they are
absolutely pure and free from all
injurious substances"