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Show Pro tett Our Food The doctors Inform ub that alum is poison, and that alum baking powdern iiould bo avoided bevausa they make the food unwholcfome. Prominent hygien lets, who havo given the matte,' most study, regard tlieee powders as an evil that should bo suppressed by slate action, ac-tion, Iu Minn, nud Wis. r.'um powders are not permitted to bo sold unless they arc branded to warn consumers of their truu charactor, while in the district of Columbia tho authorities have under the direction 'of Congress, adopted regulations reg-ulations lo prohibit tho use of nlam in biead altogether. Arc not the people uf other states, as well as those of Minn. & Wis. entitled to v nruliig of a danger which ia apparently menacing them at close hand, and is'nt tlio whole country entitled to absolute protection, as tho people ot tho district of Columbia are protected by legislation which is entirely prohibitive? Until wo can havo protection in tb.e form ol a statute, bow can our stato boards of health, stato annlysts or food commissions bottcr servo tlio public than by publishing In tho newspapers from tlmo to time the nnmo ot tho baking bak-ing powder which they llnd to be mado from alum? Meantime, it will ntd tho housewife in designating the ntum powders to remember re-member that all powders sold at 25c or less per pound are of this dangerous class Puro cream of tartar powdora are usually sold at 15 & 30 cent a pound. |