Show ADULTERATION OF FOOD Without doubt there are some things new Itaw under the sun King ICing Solomon to the contrary notwithstanding The pure food law however Is not one of them The Literary Digest has an ar article tide on bread and its adulterations in which it Is stated that France had a apure apure apure pure food tood law as far back as 1659 which prescribed the tho constituents of bread and the processes or f making it Over Oer three hundred and fifty years ears prior to this In 1307 a decree In France ordered that adulterated bread should be broken up and given glyen to the poor The subject still tm commands attention In France and the chief pharmacist of the th French army has written a highly Interesting and Instructive article on the Je subject which has been translated for the Digest This expert writes as follows Bread Is adulterated by b the addition of other Kinds of 0 flour than wheat by b the use of 0 old flour Hour and especially by excessive excessive sive she hydration hydra The addition of 0 Hour flour made of foreign substances communicates to the bread the pi properties belonging to these flours exaggerated erat d whiteness for rice and starch a adark darker dark r tint for rye and buckwheat a char characteristic characteristic characteristic odor and taste for Indian corn com cornand comand cornand and beans The presence of old flours gives gIes to the bread an unsatisfactory look The bread la is heavier tho the form depressed the crust browner and the crumb soggy When eaten it leaves in lb the mouth an after aftertaste aftertaste taste of 0 aridity acidity which persists and later provokes t thirst The odor Is quite different from the agreeable and aromatic odor of 0 bread made with flour only a month old A frag fragment fragment rag ment of crumb placed between the lips gives when the breath is drawn in the sensation of acidity peculiar to old flours Some authorities have hae recommended that to improve the defective appearance of bread made with bad flour the flour should be kneaded with certain salts such Lea its alum or the sulphates of zinc and cop copper copper copper per This Is to be condemned even een when very ery small quantities ar are used It may be detected by burning a few ounces of 0 the bread when besides the tue common salt that it contains we should find nor normally normally mally molly in the ashes only tho the natural min rain mineral minerai eral constituents of 0 the wheat It is probable that the adulteration of lr flour is practiced all aU over the world In this country clay Is added to make it heavier and acid used for bleaching purposes and ami the men guilty of 0 the de deception dece ce have nerve enough to deny that their products are unhealthy and harmful In a country countr containing such sucha a vast area of land and such a variety of climatic conditions as the United States it is perfectly natural that many man different grades of wheat should be raised good bad and Indifferent It ItIs ItIs Itis Is equally true that there thore are Just as many grades of flour and bread The poorer grades of or wheat are much cheaper than No 1 hard and there is no earthly reason why any deception should be practiced and acid used ex ox except to put money mone into the pockets of or orthe the dishonest millers The pure food fod law passed by b con congress congress gress gross has caused the consumers of ot the United States to do a whole lot Jot of thinking and the result is that there is isa Isa isa a universal demand for f r state laws along the same lines liner under which ar articles articles tides which do not enter into inter interstate Interstate interstate state commerce can be inspected and the manufacturers and dealers be com corn compelled polled to take the health of or the people Into consideration There any an ar argument argument argument against the proposition Honest non men have nothing to rear fear and the wishes S of the dishonest ones should not be respected r |