Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-08-21 | Page 13 | Don't Crab About Crabmeat; That's Struvite, Not Glass

Dont Don't Crab About Crabmeat That's Not GI Glass s The state department of of agriculture agri agri- culture hastened to assure Thursday that i if ii they fear they have been getting ground glass in canned caned can ed crabmeat crabmeat crabmeat crab- crab meat they need n not t worry Seth T. T Shaw member of of- the board of agriculture agriculture- said numerous numerous numerous nu nu- complaints prompted laboratory tests tests' of and it was found that a gritty substance complained of is t I merely crystals which he said is common in crabmeat after it has been canned for a time The crystals arc are harmless can be dissolved in warm water and merely are disagreeable Mr Shaw said Much of the canned crabmeat comes from Japan and some persons apparently thought there was a ground glass plot he concluded