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FOOD ADULTERATION AND METHODS FOR DETECTION. 



TABLE III. Canned vegetables Continued. 



MUSHROOMS. 



PEAS. 



Copper sulphate and soaked goods. 

 Copper (French goods) 



Copper 



Copper (American goods ) . 



Copper 



Preservatives. 



Do 



Aluminum salts. 



Borates 



Saccharin 



Not specified 



Do 



Do... 



Frequent. 



81 1 



36 

 Occasional. 



do. 

 Rare. 



Rept. Mass. State Bd. Health, 1903. 



Bull. 13, Pt. 8, Div. Chem., U. S. Dept, Agr. 



1893. 



Rept.N. Y. Dairy Comm., 1895. 

 Repts. Ohio Dairy and Food Comm. 



Bull. 13, Pt. 8, Div. Chem. ,U. S. Dept. Agr., 



1893. 



Rept. N. D. Agr. Expt. Sta., 1905. 

 Bull. 13, Pt. 8, Div. Chem., U. S. Dept. Agr., 



1893. 



N. C. Food Rept., 1900. 

 Rept. N. D. Agr. Expt. Sta., 1905. 

 do. 

 do. 



Rept. Ohio Dairy and Food Comm., 1901. 

 Rept. Ohio Dairy and Food Comm., 1902. 

 Rept. Ohio Dairy and Food Comm., 1903. 



TOMATOES. 



CEREAL PRODUCTS. 

 BREAKFAST FOODS. 



During the last few years the number of breakfast foods on the 

 market has been enormously increased, and very many of them are 

 extensively advertised by means of greatly exaggerated statements 

 regarding their nutritive value. Some of these products are simply 

 ground with no other preparation than the removal of the hulls, etc. 

 Others are partially cooked, and still others are "predigested " by 

 means of special treatment. 



There appears to be some doubt as to the amount of advantage 

 derived from the treatment to which the partially cooked and pre- 

 digested foods arc subjected. All breakfast foods when thoroughly 

 cooked seem to be equally as digestible as the products placed on the 

 market in a more advanced state of preparation. 



The rumors which have been circulated from time to time that 

 arsenic and other poisonous substances are used in breakfast foods 

 have been entirely without foundation. There is no doubt of the 

 wholesonieness of these food*. At the same time, the exaggerated 

 claims made by the manufacturers regarding their superior nutritive 

 qualities are to be deplored. 



