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Show I A WORTHY PRECEDENT To the La! norma Olive association is due the credit for setting h precedent ju the manufacture of food products that il generally heeded as it should be, will eliminate for all time the cases of. ptomain that continue to add an element of despair to the pages of our daily press This bogie to the food consuming publii has been mel and over-come. over-come. Heretofore we have been satisfied with frequentlj repeated warnings, both in the press and on the labels of all varieties of canned foods, to "boil contents before using But human nature has always suffered from its own carelessness or ignorance, and will continue sn to sutler unless il is protected. The California Olive association ha-, gone directly to the bottom of the matter Last winter they helped to raise a fund of one hundred thousand dollars to investigate the cause of spoiled foods and find means toj overcome it. The ablest scientists in the country w&rt employed to carry on extensive investigations with instructions to continue their work untd they had found au effective remedy. What these scientists discovered sounds vei v simple but it is very important to the consumers of prepared foods. One of the causes of food spoilage is a germ known as bacillus bstuhnus. This germ can be killed by a temperature of 240 degrees maintained for forty minutes They have secured the fo-perai ion of the California state board of health to have a ruling written into the laws of the state that do olives mav be packed for sale in I alifornia that have not beeu sterilized ster-ilized at a temperature of 240 degrees for Eortj minutes. They have gone about this matter in a two-fisted he-man fashion I and thev deserve the thanks and appreciation of the entire country. They will not suffer by their action because it will not be long before the public at large will realize that what they have done is to secure the guarantee of the laws of the state of California of Iheir product, and the confidence that will be given to ripe olives will soon rpay them for their great expenditure of money and effort. It 16 to be hoped that the manufacturers nf other canned food products will not be long in profiting b the precedent set l the California Olive association and that we will be freed for all tini'.-from tini'.-from the old-time bogie of ptomain |