Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1907 — Use of Chemicals in Food. [ARTICLE]

Use of Chemicals in Food.

Th« Department of Agriculture has promulgated regulations governing the use of benzokte of soda and sulphur fumes as preservatives of fruits and other foods. In accordance with the provision of law that food products shall not contain substances which lessen their wholesomeness, orders were issued that no drag, chemical or harmful • or deleterious dye of preservative should be used. These regulations were temporarily withheld, owing to strong protests from certain quarters. The statement now issued permits the use of common salt, sugar, wood smoke, potable distilled liquors and condiments, and, pending farther investigation, the use of saltpeter.