Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1903 — ADULTERATED FOODS. [ARTICLE]

ADULTERATED FOODS.

Sixty Per Cent of Plttsburis’a Eatables Found to Be Impart. Tests conducted by the Department of Agriculture show the astonishing fact that 60 per cent of the food products submitted for analysis from Pittsburg are adulterated. Ninety five per cent of canned peas submitted for analysis contained adulterations of the most dangerous kind, and their daily use would inevitably lead to fatal results. Canned beans were all more or less impure, and the analysis of the canned corn samples developed aSO per cent impurity. Nearly 70 per cent of the molasses, syrups and honeys submitted contained matter wholly foreign t,o their labeled composition. In the meat line, those dear old bags of mystery, sausage, were so grossly mystifying that their abominable preservatives were responsible for 72 per cent of the deleterious preservatives. Coffee, cocoa and chocolate furnished their quota to the extent of 78 per cent of substitutes for the genuine pure ingredient, and in the vast range-covered by syrups, juices, tablets, baking powders, spices, extracts, jams, jellies'and marmalade only about 20 were found to be as represented by tbeir labeled description. One-third of the tub oysters were rescued front perdition by nauseous preservatives that had been used to save ancient bivalves mixed with fresh ones. Of 430 samples of milk analyzed, about one-third were adulterated, nnd out of 8,023 samples of butter sold as such 1,840 proved to be oleomargarine. More than 50 per cent of the cheese analyzed was found to be adulterated, while about one-half of the eider vinegars submitted to the test never saw the inside of an apple or any other fruit. Boda fountain syrups are especially pernicious in their compositiori. per cent of these compounds proved to be of the vilest concoctions. In the fruit prererve list about 05 per cent of the tests proved that every posaible substitute had been uaed for the failure of tbs peach and every other kind of crops. ; The food preservatives at present extensively employed sre common saltpetre, acetic acid, woodsmoke, sugar, sodiumbenzoate, borax, boracic acid, formaldehyde and salicylic acid. Sulphites, ism Ides, sWno-auorides and a few comply coal tat derivative# art somstbnes wed.