Show WIND AS AN ADULTERANT After Arter long discussion and deliberation the department of agriculture has de decided decided decided that what is known to millers as bleached flour Is adulterated and that after alter the present stock Is disposed of it cannot be sold for interstate delivery One of ot the Salt Lake newspapers in innocently innocently recently describes this class of ot product as bleached by electricity and nitric acid Chemists will smile at the tle no notion n tion tl n that the application of nitric acid to a plant product could whiten It or do anything but destroy it outright The bleaching process is accomplished by bypassing bypassing bypassing passing a current of air between elec dee electrodes electrodes producing nitrogen peroxide which whitens the flour but so far as any demonstration or analysis shows makes no chemical change In the flour or bread made from It The millers of the country count produced the best expert authority in the country to support their contention that the process was not In Injurious injurious jurious in any way but the depart department department ment meat having the power to do as it pleases In such matters refused to ac accept accept accept their opinions About the only result orthe new rul ml ruling ruling ing lag prohibiting the of the thet t bleached blenched flour will be the th abandonment of ot the electric equipment It cannot af at affect affect the value or the real eat quality of ot the milling output either for better or worse nor will It make any change in grades and prices It eliminates arti artl artificial wind currents as part of the man manufacturing manufacturing manufacturing equipment and that is about all it docs does |