FAXED FOOD EXPOSURE.
An interesting cxhihition was to be opened at the Horticultural Hall, London, from May 23rd to 28th. It is called the Pure Focd Exhibition, and ia intended to expose the infamous art of food-faking; and to give a series of object lessens on the great and growing evil of the aruieration and contamination of our food supplies. unSy thuss lirms will be ailowed to exhibit who are prepared to sign a declaration that all the food preparations and liquids they intend to display are free from any injurious adulteration or preservatives, and are absolutely pure. The special interedt, however, will attach to the d emonstrations of the various methods by which food ift faked or rendered impure by insanitary methods of preparation. The public will be shown coffee'made of burnt turnips, meats, ar.d fiuits preserved with a dangerous excess of boric acid, homemade jam composed of rotten fruit and cabbage stalks, milk coloured with coal tar and other dyes, ground ■ olive stones that pass as pepper, and I wines that are simply a composition of salicylic acid.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10060, 3 June 1910, Page 7
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180FAXED FOOD EXPOSURE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10060, 3 June 1910, Page 7
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