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powders is clearly an adulteration. In several States its use in baking 

 powders is prohibited except when distinctly branded on the label. 

 Alum in baking powders, when branded as required by law, in some 

 States can not be considered an adulteration, as there is no official 

 standard, but when sold as cream of tartar powders the use is certainly 

 fraudulent, and the article an adulterant. 



Beer. Burnt sugar, licorice, treacle, quassia, coriander and caraway 

 seed, Cayenne pepper, soda, salicylic acid, salt, carbonic gas (artificially 

 injected), grains other thau barley, glycerin, glucose, water (by retailers) 

 tobacco, and seed of coculus indicus. 



Black pepper. Buckwheat flour and hulls, P. D. cracker crumbs, 

 corn meal, wheat flour, charcoal, sand, bran, linseed meal, cocoanut 

 shells, mustard seed hulls, sawdust, olive stones, Cayenne pepper, red 

 clay, and ship bread. There is hardly anything of a refuse character 

 that is not used by manufacturers to adulterate pepper. 



Bread. Alum, sulphate of copper, ammonia, inferior flour, and corn 

 meal and rye flours. 



Butter. Oleomargarin, butterin, water (stretched butter) in undue 

 proportions, lard, alkalines and rancid butter, cotton oil, beef suet, 

 olive oil. 



Candy. Tartaric acid is used to cut the sugar and prevent granula- 

 tion. Glucose is used on account of its cheapness to the extent of 10 

 or 20 per cent. Being less sweet thau sugar it is a deterioration and 

 is, therefore, undoubtedly an adulterant. Chrome yellow, soapstone, 

 terra alba, baryta, and starch, are all used to a greater or less extent. 



Cider. "Country cider," so called, is made by the following method. 

 Such cider, (?) of course, depreciates the market value of apples, and 

 is not as healthful nor as palitable as the old-fashioned sort : 



To each gallon of water add one-half pound of granulated sugar, acidulate with 

 tartaric acid and flavor with oil of apple, previously put in alcohol; color with 

 caramels, and to 20 gallons of this mixture add 2 gallons of genuine country cider. 



Dried apples. Zinc and copper, weighted with water and sirup and 

 water. 



Eggs. The yolks of eggs are now largely imitated, and it is stated 

 that the whole egg is now successfully duplicated as a result of scien- 

 tific genius. 



Glucose. It is a clear, transparent, stiff-flowing liquid, which is made 

 from corn by the use of sulphuric acid. It is not as sweet as sugar, 

 and costs 2 to 3 cents per pound, or about one-half the price of sugar. 

 It is used largely in the adulteration of candy, sirup, beer, and jelly. 

 Dr. W. P. Tonry says of this article: 



A skilled confectioner told me he considered glucose in any kind of candy unnec- 

 essary, injurious to health, and unquestionably an adulterant. 



Glycerin. Glucose, water. 



Infant foods. Many of the so-called milk foods contain but little, 

 and some no, milk. These foods are principally made from wheat, dif- 

 ferently prepared. 



