Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-10-19 | Page 24 | Warning is Issued to apple Buyers

WARNING IS ISSUED TO APPLE BUYERS ' Watch out for tha big apple. It may make you I1L Dr. T. J. Howells, city health 1 commlssloaer, warned housewives that to purchase apples that have not had the poison spray removed waa to risk arsenic and lead poisoning. poison-ing. The thing to do Is to wash, ! the apples thoroughly at home. Samples ot apples, particularly ' thoae sold door to door, revealed to city chemists that more than five) times the amount of poison allowed al-lowed by U. 8. department of agriculture agri-culture standard remained on the . fruit. He pointed out that some crops i ara sprayed flv or six times against coddling moth Invasion and that this spray la Uutio to tha human hu-man system. I i i ii i iii