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Show j A STRINGENT FOOD LAW. Prohibits the Use of Arsenic or Alum Al-um in all Articles of Diet. The law enacted by the Missouri legislature, leg-islature, a copy of which was recently published in our columns, and which prohibits the manufacture or sale of any article intended for food or to be used in the preparation of food, which, contains alum, arsenic, ammonia, etc.,' Places that state in the lead in the matter of sanitary legislation. Laws restricting the use of alum in ! bread have been in force in England, Germany and France for many years. In this country, in Minnesota, Wisconsin. Wiscon-sin. Michigan, Ohio. Kentucky and several sev-eral other states, direct legislation in reference to the sale of alum baking powders has also been effected. In several of these states their sale is prohibited pro-hibited unless they are branded to show that they contain alum, and in the District Dis-trict of Columbia, under the laws of congress, the ale of bread containing alum has been made illegal. Following are the names of some of the brands of baking nowders sold in this vicinity which are shown by recent analysis to contain alum. Housekeepers Housekeep-ers and grocers should cut the list out and keep it for reference: Baking Powders Containing Alum. K. C Contains Alum Manf. 1 Jaques Mfg. Co.. Chicago. OA H "M KT Coma ins Alum Manf. by Calumet Baking Powder Co., Chicago. PERFECT ..Contains Alum Manf. by Perfect Raking Powder Co., St. Louis. MALTA I R Con t a i n s Al u m Manf. by Sultair Raking Powder Co., Salt Lake City. HOME Contains Alum Manf. by Home Raking Powder Co., San Francisco. In addition to these many grocers sell what they c all their own private or special spe-cial brands. These powders are put up for the grocer, and his name put upon the labels by manufacturers of alum powders. The manufacturers, it is said, find their efforts to market their goods in this way gieatly aided by the ambition ambi-tion of the grocer to sell a powder with his own name upon the label, especially as he can make an abnormal profit upon i it. Many grocers, doubtless, do not know that the powders they are thus pushing are alum powders, the pale of which would be a misdemeanor under the law referred to. It is quite impossible to give the names of all the alum baking powders. They are constantly appearing in all sorts of disguises., under different names and at all kinds of prices, even ns low as five and ten cents a pound. They can be avoided, however, by the housekeeper who will bear in mind that all baking powders sold at twenty-five twenty-five cents or less per pound are liable to contain alum, as pure cream tartar powders cannot be produced at anything any-thing like this price. |