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Show VARI-COLORED EASTER EGG NOT HARMFUL New York. April 13 The vari-col-ored Easter egg has received n vote of confidence at the hnnds of New York City's health department An investigation in-vestigation was recently ordered as a result of numerous complaints that the pigments used in covering the surface of the enndy eggs were injurious. in-jurious. The report of the investigators investigat-ors vindicates the samples submitted and the sale of the candy eggs will therefore bo permitted as heretofore. The health commissioner says in his report that there Is perhaps too much dye used in many cases, but that the coal-tar colors which are used for tho purpose are not deleterious In former years, he says, there has nevor been a single case showing that the colored eggs, whether of candy or the regular chicken kind, caused any harm ,. |