Show IH BEER AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY HAS ANIMATED discussion chicago dec 28 the possibility of arsenical poisoning in beer was the topic ot popular interest at tho opening of the convention 0 the american chemical society yesterday the chemists from all parts of the country turned from discourses en atoma and elements and joined in tho argument crowing out of the recent wholesale poisoning in england dr edward gudeman charged tho brewers with wilfully introducing into beer an arsenical antiseptic to prevent I 1 the fermentation of the beverage from progressing too tar and bis assertion was the sensation of tho session several other chemists broko on the question urging that all beer and other liquors brewed should be thoroughly analyzed to protect tho consumers from dangers of poison A hall secretary of tho society read a paper by charles A parsons ot new hampshire college durham N H in which a recipe was given for distinguishing oleomargarine from butter the sample the writer said should be placed in boiling milk and cooled being stirred through the process if the tat collects into a ball the sample Is oleomargarine it not it Is butter |