Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1878 — Adulterated Sugars. [ARTICLE]

Adulterated Sugars.

The Tribune will print to-mor-row a disclosure of the alleged sugar frauds, adulterations injurious to health, resulting in an annual loss of revenue on drawbacks to the amount of $15,000,000. Samples of the product of maiw New York and Brooklyn sugar refineries have been analyzed by chemical experts, and in every instance the investigation has mown conclusively that refined sugars have been adulterated bv the use of tin and muriatic acid, glucose and other substances. The largest proportion of the adulteration has been found to consist of glucose, a cheap product of corn. Sugar refiners may hold the opinion that their sugars are chemically .pure; that the munate of tin used in the manufacture is collected in the last processes, and remains in residuum—the fight will come, probably, on that very point—but the claim of the refiners is overthrown completely by the presence of substances in the sugars which they claim are chemically pure. An analysis of many samples of sugar and sirup have been made, and in .but one instance has the sugar been found to be wholly free from adulteration It is stated that no action *can be taken with respect to the adulterations, except by the various Boards' of Health.—Am York ( Nov. 14) Special to Chicago In-ter-Ocean .WHEHthe people-goback' on a man there is no power else on earth to which he ean appeal.