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Show the do-ugh, leavening it, and leaving the alumina hydmte behind, with sulphate sul-phate of soda This Is one reason why so mauy experts claim that tho use of alum or alum products in bread is deleterious. At tho same time, other experts claim that these chemicals are left In a harmless condition, practically practical-ly inert. Seizure is Made. Commissioner Hansen was about making up his mind to seize the outfit when he noticed a bunch of leaf circulars cir-culars offering ' $500 reward for any Rochelle salts, alum, lime potassium, tartrate, ammonia, or any other Impurities Im-purities In fod prepared with the Crescent baking powder." Now hi knew that the detection of ulumina sulphate, or common alum. In the bread would be Impossible because of the chomlcal changes, so ho concluded this was a "sure thing dodge" to gull ytie public, aud settled his mind at once. The seizure was made. Moreover, More-over, the label stated that egg was aa ingredient, while the dodger called it "The modern egg-phosphate powder" one a plain, the other a compound substance. Mr. Hansen says if the label had stated plainly that there was alum la the powder, he could not have done anything. But the label was misleading In itself, and the dodder dod-der circular further complicated tho niystory. Mr. Hansen has information that demonstrators for this company have been working In various places over the state and going Into houses to show "the superiority of this baking bak-ing powder over all others." The food commissioner's contentions have been borne out by the state chemist, so he feels safe In taking the stand he has. Mr. Hansen reports having h:d trouble with tho Hunt baking powder people, who, he soys, have been giving ott that their powder was being used in the families of the food commissioner commis-sioner and the state chemist, when the statement was entirely untrue. SEIZURE BY FOODOFF1GER SALT LAKE, Dec. 13 Willard Hansen, Jr., state food mid dairy commissioner, com-missioner, made a seizure this morning morn-ing that he considers cf unusual importance. im-portance. At a aniall Last Second South street grocery he found a demonstration dem-onstration showing off bukiug powder from "The Crescent Baking Powder company of Seattle, Wash " Mr. Hansen Han-sen looked several packages over and discovered such a violation of the Mat.' lav. In the mattfr of labelling titat he confiscated the entire outfit, worth perhaps $25. The demonstrator, demon-strator, he noticed. was taking a spoonful of the powder, testing it in hot and cold water to show its ftrength ns a leavening agent, which w;is claimed to be "tar superior to other baking powders." On the label was printed what the powder purpoit- d to contain, one of the ingredients being "sodium nluiuluuin sulphate" an unintelligible conglomeration. Alumina sulphate Is common alum, but sodmm what? Sodium is a metal, but In the form used must be somo Halt of the metal, as for -instance, carbonate. car-bonate. But this Is not stated. If ccrbonate of soda Is meant, the reaction reac-tion In the combination Is the freeing of carbonic acid gas by the sulphuric acl l In the alumina, which unites with the sodium to form sulphate of soda, or Glauber salt. The resultant Is a pi palpitation of the alumina In the form of a hydrate, a substance commercially com-mercially used as a basis for pigments. pig-ments. Iu the reaction in dough, tho escaping carbonic acid gas blows out |