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Show 1 ' 11 1 taw-1 m i i mi i ii i iii Lausjuiujmja USE OF OLIVE POIS01G FOUND Packers Fail to Use Sufficiently Sufficient-ly High Temperaturc in Sterilizing Germ Forms WASHINGTON, March IS. Failure of some packers to use a sufflc:ently mf 1 1 i ii i i ii y in i BoBnBBa5 high temperature during sterilization of ripe olives in glass containers per mit'.ed development or the botulinus germ, which caused the deaths of 25 penons, two months ago, said a report of specialists of the bureau of chemistry, chem-istry, who havo just concluded an investigation in-vestigation in cooperation with the pub'ic health service. ,The poison would develop just lhc san in tin containers, the report showed, if the olives were not sufficiently suffi-ciently processed, but as there is no danvror of breakage involved in tin. the packer does not hesitate to app.y tlie .proper degree of heat to kill the gem in sterilization. t'h(5 investigation disclosed only ont- faljflity Avhere a tin container wa3 in WM vo'ed, but this contained a relish con 'mm si-.ang of minced ripe olives. tha mm poison forming through inadequate W . processing. WE in connection with the report of the SI investigators, the department of agrl- ,1 culture issued another warning to pro- Al ducats to destroy any article showing 9J tho least evidence of spoilage. Tha Si department believes that th industry :'S should undertake such protective -aH measures on its own initiative, as it is -l wiihour authority to compel, re-proc SI essing of stocks. w9 If you want to make a grouch laugh vl make yourself the butt of his joke. '-mm |