People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1895 — ANOTHER EMBARGO. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER EMBARGO.

British Analysts Find Copper in American (mined I’eas. New York, March 14.—A local firm of exporters of provisions has received word that the importation of American canned peas into Great Britian may be prohibited as a result of a report made by Drs. Dupre and Luff, analysts to the home office, that the contents of anumber of cans of green peas recently examined were found to be colored or stained by the aid of copper to the extent of seven-tenths of a grain of copper per pound. Sulphate of copper, according to the report, if taken into the system in the quantities found in the cans in question will produce chronic copper poisoning. The copper is used to retain the green color of the peas. The matter has stilled to be passed upon by the chief analyst, who has authority through the home office to prohibit further importation.