COMPILED DATA UNDER GREEN TABLE NUMBERS. 77 



G. T. 2. 



Trade names. Victoria Yellow; Victoria Orange; Golden Yellow; 

 >affron Substitute; Anilin Orange; Di-nitro-Cresol. 

 Scientific name. Di-nitro-o-and-p-cresol. 

 Shade. Yellow. Not offered. 

 Discovered. 1869. 

 Used for coloring butter, liqueurs, etc. 



FAVORABLE. 



Nothing. 



UNFAVORABLE. 



1. Prohibited by Confectioners' List. 



2. FRAENKEL (p. 572): "On the other hand dinitro-cresol is much more intensely 



poisonous (than picric acid), which is probably caused by its greater solubility 

 in water." 



3. SCHACHERL (p. 1044}'- * * * Dinitro-cresol [is], according to numerous state- 



ments in the literature, poisonous even in small doses, and [is] therefore unquali- 

 fiedly to be declared as unpermissible." 



4. Resolutions of the Society of Swiss Analytical Chemists, September, 1891: "The 



following are to be regarded as coloring matters harmful to health * * * 

 Dinitro-cresol * * *." 



5. Forbidden by the Canton of Tessin. 



6. WEYL (p. 31): "I have shown the same (poisonous nature) for Dinitro-cresol (Saf- 



fron Substitute). (See Zts. angew. Chem., 1888, No. 12, for confirmation of my 

 results by Gerlach.) " 



7. "The reverse is the case with the poisonous dinitro-cresol (Saffron Substitute)." 



(p. 55.) 



8. WEYL describes experiments with this compound, (pp. 71-85.) 



9. Fourteen rabbits were experimented on, of which 13 died . Amounts administered 



in the fatal cases per 100 pounds body weight were (p. 74): 

 Grains. Grains. 



189 175 



175 168 



175 175 



175 168 



175 168 



175 175 



175 



Of 12 experiments on dogs, 5 receiving the color by the mouth and 7 hypoder- 

 mically, 3 cases resulted fatally; the fatal case by the mouth requiring 38 J grains 

 per 100 pounds body weight; the 2 fatal cases hypodermically represented 11 and 

 20 grains per 100 pounds body weight, respectively, although 140, 38.5, 31.6, and 

 35 grains per 100 pounds body weight by the mouth were borne without fatal 

 effect; and 24$, 11.9, 9.8, and 4.9 grains per 100 pounds body weight, hypo- 

 dermically, were also borne without fatal effect (p. 75). 



10. WEYL (p. 96): "* * * Dinitro-cresol * * * are [is] poisonous; * * *" 



11. Prohibited by the Belgian law of June 17, 1891. 



12. (Zts. Nahr. Genussm., 1892, p. 353): Recommended as an insecticide, 1500 being 



sufficient for all ordinary purposes. One milligram is sufficient to kill a mouse; 

 2 milligrams recommended for killing mice. 



13. WEYL (Handbuch der Hygiene): For humans, the fatal dose, when administered by 



the stomach, appears to be 60 milligrams per kilo body weight, or 43 grains per 

 100 pounds. 



