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Show HOUSEWIVES WARNED1 BY DAIRY. . OFFICIAL In the hope that it will prevent much prodignl wasto of fruit through unnecessary alarm which seems to be prevalent In "many sections of" Utah, Walter M. Boyden. slate dairy and food commissioner, yesterday issued a statement which he commends to housowives. The alarm mentioned is causing many families to destroy I fruit whicli can be eaten without danger of the poisoning feared, Mr. Boyden says, whose statement follows: "On account ,of having received reports re-ports from various quarters that illness ill-ness had resulted from eating fruits put up in bottles having lacquered metal tops, this department some time ago issued a warning that care should be exercised in use of fruit so kept. This did not mean, however, that there should be wholesale destruction of products put up in such containers as seems to have resulte in many places. "It is only when .the lops have been imperfectly lacquered that there is any danger, and not even then is it always necessarily present. If the fruit has been at all affected through corrosion of the metal top where it has been imperfectly lacquered ample evidence evi-dence of it is discovered when the bottle is first opened. It is dangerous to eat the fruit if a black substance has formed to considerable extent around the top edge of the bottle near the point of contact with the metal. If no such accumulation appears the fruit is perfoctly good and to throw it away is unnecessary waste. "Again, if fruit put up in bottles with lacquered metal tops has kept good so far this year It- will continue to be safely edible during the remainder re-mainder of the season. The lacquered metals tops are safe enough when there is no imperfection in the lacquering, lacquer-ing, and I hope that this statement will have the effect of stopping further waste and especially in view of the general necessity for conserving all products." |