Show adulterations ADULTE RATIONS OF FOOD THIC THE state department will shortly publish a report setting forth the results of a long series of investigations made by government chemists during the last three years of food adultery eions practiced in the united states this report will contain proofs of the existence of a very general system of food and drink adulteration throughout the country the impositions are not always necessarily hurtful to health the sophistication of butter by the addition of lard and cottonseed ou oil of cheese with foreign animal and vegetable fats of milk from which the cream is extracted with water and coloring matters or of olive oil with cottonseed cotton seed oil and of the condiments with flour and starch are exam examples les in point but the majority of fot fo food T adulterations adulte rations are hurtful and many of them are poisonous an exchange in giving a forecast of the forthcoming report says of eleven brands of mustard examined by ahe the agricultural department all sold for pure mustard not one was found which had not been adulterated cfall of all the brands of pepper but one was genuine and that was of english origin twenty samples of ground cloves yielded but two twe pure samples of ten samples of ginger four were pure incidentally it is mentioned that a new york spice manufacturer recently ground up ia pounds of cocoanut coco anut husks for mixture with his goods nand the ithe fact was noticed in most of the newspapers with scarcely any comment in other articles used for food it was discovered that aticus were common thou though h a no series of samples turned out quite as bad as the condiments when it is considered that the samples used in these tests were selected from all over the country the universality ot of fraud by adulteration will be realized the american society for the prevention of adulteration in food is an organization having ramifications in various states in the union its president is mr drw W fi kamerling aberling Aa erling and in his bis opening address at a recent meeting of the society in washington he be made the following serious not net to say startling charges Theu thousands sands of people suffer and die every year from using adulterated food and drink and especially vinous and malt liquors in nearly all the large cities malt and vinous liquors have suffered such sophistication as to produce brights disease and many ahe r afflictions upon analysis kanj in t the apas past t three years we have found many 0 of f samples qt of supplies adulterated adulterate d or sophisticated the malt and vinous liquors were found to suffer the most from adulteration many of the malt liquors being so unwholesome from drugs and chemicals as to be totally unfit for consumption don and which chic would have been publicly destroyed in germany were they to be found on en sale there more than half a century ago age the latter day saints were warned by revelation of the evils that would overtake this generation because of adul te rations in food and drink and were at the same time instructed how to avoid these evils the verification of that warning is so obvious that neither proof nor argument is needed to support it ic and the moral as to the instructions accompanying it becomes plain one important lesson taught in connection with this subject is that articles of food even to spices and condiments should be produced at home a as tar far as possible os sible and that articles of drink of or the kinds liable to adulteration should be avoided |