The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-07-18
No Evidence of Poison ing Here,
Seattle Station Aide Reports;
Forty Stricken in Ontario, Greg.
CALF. TELLS
OF NEW CASES
BREAKING OUT


SAN FRANCISCO. Calf. July 10
tNichi Bel Times Dispatch Add
itional outbreaks of poisoning from
arsenic tainted shoyu sauce were re-
ported over the weekend in San
Francisco. Perkeley and Sacramento
as city and state health inspectors
continued their search for the
poisoned sauce
Four new cases we're reported
in San Francisco Monday, two of
them being Japanese Americans.
The shoyu they had been using Is
now being analysed by public
health authorities. II was reported.
The state public health inspec-
tors office also disclosed that two
persons at 1872 Sansome st. had
been stricken and that shoyu dis
tributed by Wing Men company
300 Montgomery St. was blamed.
Traced to Customers
All shoyu sauce stock In Oakland
and Berkeley were ordered frozen
Saturday while SO San Francisco
health inspectors sought to track
down tainted sauce sales from dis
tributor through stores to custom
ers.
One uptown japanese store was
| orered to notify three customers
to return recently purchased sho-
yu.
Source of the tainted sauce APP
parently was the A. F. Staley
company's home plant In Decatur
Ill, termed by public health au-
thorities reliable firm"
AS soon as the company's Deca-
tur headquarters received word
about the poisonings. 1t froze oil
United States stock of the sauce
of which IL is the nations great
est supplier The sauce is used as
a base of worcestershire sauce and
GRAVES.
Arsenic In One Shipment
A. f. Staley. Jr, president Of
the company, said thai a small
amount of arsenic has been found
In shipment which left for the
West coast May 8 and authorized
destruction of the infected ship
ment.
The poisoned sauce has been
traced by state public health Of
ficials to this single large ship
ment to Los Angeles from the Sta
ley company.
According to Milton p Duffy,
state health inspector, sauce from
the Illinois company was taken
from large drums and bottled I'M
der at least two names.
Hanamurasaki brand bottled by
the Soya Bean Products company
of Los Angeles.
Yamaman brand, distributed by
Coast Mercantile company of San
francisco.
In San Francisco, F. M Mona
ka. local wholesale merchant and
distributor of Hanamurasaki sho-
yu stated that all suspected stock
in his possession has been quaran-
tined. He declared that he had 4
large stock on hand prior to May
and although a new shipment
was received late In June, very
little of 1t had been sent on to re-
tail stores.
"All dealers with any suspected
stock have been notified to hold
the shoyu for inspection" Nonaka
told the Nichi Bel Times.
Not Lethal Dose
The Staley firm reported that
the amount of arsenic In the
shipment was not great enough
TO cause death or even sickness
when used in normal quantities,
but we intend to find out just
how 1t happened to be in the one
shipment
The content was 1/20th part OF
per cent, the company said
A. b. Crowley, chief 8 F. health
department inspector. ordered all
his staff TO duty Saturday fol-
lowing the report that Mrs, Lsu-
ra Bittman, 1914 Clay St, and her
daughter, Barbara, became Ill af-
ter using the sauce Friday night
They were treated for nausea and
sewers vomiting.