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FOOD PRESERVATIVES.

LONDON DOCTOR'S DISQUIETING

STATEMENTS

Dr. Collingridge, medical officer of health to the Corporation of London, makes several disquieting statements in a report dealing with the examination by the Public Analyst of various samples of food preservatives advertised in trade journals, In two cases of milk preservatives he recommends legal action. Both samples, lie says, contained benzoates, and a circular of the most misleading character is issued by the makers. Dr. Collingridge, in another instance, quotes from the makers instructions regarding the use of _ a dry antiseptic food preservative, shown to consist of a mixture of dry borax and boric acids, to the effect that "the required quantity varies according to the class of article requiring less than an inferior one." He points out that, this can only moan that inferior meat—tainted ( '?) meat—can be used if a larger amount of the preservative is added. Dreetions are also supplied to purchasers as to the curing of hams by the aid of tins preservative, which, the medical officer remarks, is advertised las the "greatest discovery of the age." ''There may be people," he says, "who prefer ham and bacon that have been steeped in such compounds, instead of beng prepared in the old fashioned way," but the general public are not likely to take a similar view." j Many of the samples analysed were simple'mixtures of borax and boric acid, the latter always being in excess. In summing up, Dr. Collin griclge says: "In my opinion, in all cases where preservatives are addert to articles of food and drink, not only the nature of the drug used,..hut the amount, should be notified to the purchaser. Further, the use of any preservatve in milk should be made a '"ien.il offence."

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10150, 21 November 1910, Page 7

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FOOD PRESERVATIVES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10150, 21 November 1910, Page 7

FOOD PRESERVATIVES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10150, 21 November 1910, Page 7

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