Is the Price Which New York City Pays for Food Safety 



Inspectors ruining a barrel of spoiled 

 fowl with kerosene oil before the 

 owner could place it in cold stor- 

 age. All rotten meat is removed 

 and shipf>ed to Barren Island. 

 Here it is converted into fertilizer 



Below: Examining a dough-mixing 

 machine in a baker>-. Bakeries in 

 the tenement districts require con- 

 stant watching. But thanks to 

 modem machinery, conditions are 

 better than they ever were before 



At right at bottom of the page: 

 Inspector examining "candled out" 

 eggs to detect "too close" candling, 

 which means that eggs witli only a 

 few slight spots have not been elimi- 

 nated from among the sound eggs 



Below: Passing on German carp. 

 The gills must be a bright but 

 natural red to assure the inspector 

 that they are fresh and unpainted. 

 Fraudulent dealers used to paint 

 the gills with a carmine solution 



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