Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-05 | Page 28 | Germany Flooded with "Fake" Substitutes for Food Products

Germany Flooded With Fake Substitutes for Food Products Agi Agitation aHon Is Spreading Over the Country for for t Drastic Action Against Manufacturers Manufacturers Who Are Marketing Marketing- Fraudulent Wares Vares BERNE Via London March 4 It must be humiliating to those in Germany who are loudly boasting of the disinterestedness and self sa sacrifice sacrifice ri- ri fice of all all' classes of the people to tobe tobe be he candidly told that the entire country country coun coun- try Is honeycombed with manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers of grossly adulterated foods toads Pride In in inthe the Ingenuity of their chemists chemists chem chem- in discovering or Inventing substitutes substitutes substitutes sub sub- for articles of food which are rapidly disappearing Is surely tempered tempered tem tern by a certain amount of shame and Indignation that so many of these substitutes are arc frauds of the worst description and that In nine cases out of or ten they are not even what they pretend to be A cry has lias gone up for a national ministry of ot foodstuffs with offices allover allover all allover over the country which will In the first place control prices and see that no trickery is exercised by traders In III exceeding rates fixed by law and In Inthe inthe in the second place to examine into a an all foods and food substitutes offered for sale and ancl to visit with condign punishment punish punish- ment all persons who sell substances as food w which either are worthless or orare orare orare are sold on false pretenses pretenses- This mm- mm with its branches would be called Into existence at once and would be for tor the duration of the war In many journals one hears of the frauds which are being practiced practiced practiced gross In all parts of ot the country The oil substitute of a manufacturer of salad oil in western Germany is ire re re receiving wide publicity as it t has been officially analyzed It is thus described de de- scribed A slightly yellowish fluid of ofa ofa ofa a slimy character and with a taste reminding reminding re reo re- re minding one of thin bouillon It consists con con- of per cent water 12 per percent percent percent cent extract and 45 per cent ashes It Is absolutely free of all fatty sub sub- stances The TIle preparation is for sale at an equivalent ent of 30 cents a quart Deeply to to be regretted says the are the results of a a. number of Investigations Into the nature of or certain preparations known as egg substitutes fruit juices etc There Thero must be a stop put putto putto putto I I to all aU this Parliament must imme imme- I di sely Intervene