DANGERS OF FLOUR BLEACHING.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT REPORT
PROCESSES MUST BE REGARDED WITH APPREHENSION.
POWERFUL CHEAIICALS USED.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Cppyrteht (l?ec. April 7, 10 p.m.) London, April 7. The Local Government Hoard has .issued a report upon tho methods adopted in bleaching Hour. Bleached Hour, the report states, must he regarded with considerable apprehension. Tho uso of nitrogen peroxide enables millers to transform tho cheaper wheats into whiter, higher- i priced flour, and often a saving of from sixpence to a shilling a sack is effected by its use. Tho uso of the so-called flour improvcrs, often containing 50 per cent, of calcium sulphate and an appreciable amount of arsenic, is equally undesirable. The addition to flour of powerful chemicals such as hydrofluoric acid, phosphorus, pentachloride, and tho ox- ! ides and sulphides of phosphorus as' Sometimes practised is most dangerous. l
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1097, 8 April 1911, Page 5
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140DANGERS OF FLOUR BLEACHING. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1097, 8 April 1911, Page 5
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