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Some artificial jellies have been sold in Brooklyn which are made 

 from gelatine, sugar, artificial flavoring extracts, cochineal, or analine 

 red. 



The following articles were found in products purchased of Brooklyn 

 Polishing Companies : 



French chalk (white) also soapstouo or talc, is a silicate of magnesia. 



Gum arable. 



Charcoal, from wood. 



Drop black, animal charcoal, or burnt bones. 



Yellow ochre. A mixture of clay and hydrated oxide of iron. 



Venetian red. A red earth, mostly oxide of iron and clay. 



Chrome orange. Chromate of lead, mixed earth, yellow ochre. Poisonous. 



Burnt umber. Differs very little from ochre in composition. 



Silesia blue. A mixture of ochre and Prussian blue. Gives off cyanagen 



abundantly in heating. 



Turmeric. The powdered root of curcuma longa. 

 Indigo and indigo extract. (This latter is a sulphate of indigo and indigo 



carmine..) 

 Persian berries, with ochre, giving a grayish-green colored pigment. 



Of these the Commissioner (page 121) says chrome orange and silesia 

 Hue are poisonous. Of the remaining colors he says : 



While not so injurious, they are used to deceive the public, and should be regarded 

 as adulterations. 



On the examination of twenty samples of coffee, polished, purchased 

 on the open market, lead was found to adhere to the bean in consider- 

 able quantities, and the use of lead and Prussian blue is shown to be 

 common. 



Alum aod sal-soda are added to the Persian berries to make a beau- 

 tiful lake color. This separated, and mixed with indigo gives an olive 

 green. 



In addition to this system of polishing, I learn that coffee is so manip- 

 ulated as to extract the essential oils and essences from the beau, which 

 is sold as coffee, while the essences are manufactured in extracts, and 

 sold as such. 



Another method of adulteration is to take the shriveled beans and 

 soak them in sea-water, which " plumps" the berry and deceives the 

 public into buying a poor article of coffee for a good one. 



The natural sequence is that if you desire a fine grade of coffee you 

 will avoid the highly polished, colored and plumped grains, and pur- 

 chase the poorest looking coffee you can find. 



BOLOGNA SAUSAGE COLOR. 



Color is an essential in selling many of the articles of food offered 

 upon the market and we not only have "butter color" and milk color, 

 but copper in various ways is used to " green " beans, peas, and pickles, 

 but the Brooklyn health department has discovered a coloring for 

 Bologna sausage composed of salt, saltpeter, borax, alum, and Venetian 

 red. The harinfalness of this mixture consists in Its ability to 4eceiye 



