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Show FIND U.S. FOOD IN CANS UNFIT TOEIPLI Inspector Asks DestVt&tion of Products Put Up for--. Government ST. LOUIS. Mo.. Feb. 25. Dr. E. Lfc Barnhouse. state food and drug inspector, in-spector, today announced that some of the government canned goods whl- h has been retailed in many places here, has been found unfit for consumption. He added that he has ordered 6 59 cases of the goods destroyed. Dr. llarnhouao explained his office has received numerous complaints recently re-cently as to the quality of the food and that following an Investigation by his inspectors, four local merchants were summoned to his office. Tho merchants readily agreed to destroy de-stroy the goods and 440 cases of loganberries. logan-berries. 6 3 coses of soy beuns and 166 cases of kraut will be dumped in the Mississippi river Monday. lr Barn-house Barn-house said. BAD WHEN v IMS) H. E. Wldemann. state chemist, testified as to the contents of the condemned con-demned products and declared the articles ar-ticles were not In a fit condition to be canned when sealed in cans. Dr. Barnhouse continued: ' Tho sale of ihese Impure canned goods, which receive the recommendation recommenda-tion of the government and are thus enhanced In the eyes of th general public a to purity of SOUent will undoubtedly un-doubtedly cause great barm. It Is a menace to th. health of tho country and may bring dire results Impure canned goods causo ptomaine poisoning. ' I MOjY M L POOR. "f have found that In St. LoulS practically prac-tically every bit of the stuff sold by tho government, which we e.xTmincd. 'whether labelled good or bad, was ibad," Dr. B.nrnhous.. said. "The ouly exceptions to this were canned, poaches, and cherries. Government meat In cans Is all right, as S rule, bat those who purchaso it should COOk It thoroughly to prevent any possible Infection. "I also have found that Oioee who havo charge of disposing of exi SSS army and navy food products have been exceedingly careless In the I manner of disposal They not only have permitted unfit foodstuffs to bo 1 1. m... i it i, hi )i:.e ..mid foodstuffs Invoiced lts unfit to dealers handling food products. These latter were sold supposedly to be disposed of for livestock live-stock feed." |