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it is; seventh, if it contains any added substance or ingre- 

 dients which are poisonous, or injurious, or deleterious to 

 health, or if it contains any deleterious substance not a 

 necessary ingredient in its manufacture. 



Candies are adulterated with chalk, or baryta, to give 

 them weight; adulterated with flour to give them bulk; 

 and adulterated with analine to give them color, and adul- 

 terated with saccharine to give them sweetness. 



Strained honey is adulterated by dropping into a half- 

 pound glass jar of glucose, a small piece of highly flavored 

 honey in the comb, with an occasional fragment of the body 

 of the bee. In some instances this might with propriety be 

 called the adulteratiion of glucose instead of the adultera- 

 tion of honey. 



Syrups are adulterated with glucose and colored with 

 analine colors, soured syrups are neutralized and reboiled, 

 thereby producing compounds that are very deleterious to 

 health. 



Flavoring extracts, such as lemon and vanilla, are as a 

 usual thing adulterated, containing an exceedingly small 

 amount of the essential reagent, and are colored with coal 

 tar products or caram'l. In some instances there is abso- 

 lutely none of the essential reagents in the so-called 

 extracts. 



And so on we might mention almost the entire list of 

 the grocer's goods and many of the druggist's stock of 

 goods. 



Second. As to the effects on the human system, foods 

 may be divided into three classes: First, those that are 

 wholesome; second, those that are questionable; tltird, 

 those that are harmful. 



The unsuspecting public has a right to be protected 

 from harmful and questionable foods; the public also a 

 right to be protected in the case of adulterations, whether 

 or not they are injurious to health. 



Greed for gold in America is doing what malice in bar- 

 barous and semi-barbarous countries is doing, viz. : put- 

 ting poison even in the foods we drink. The law lends a 

 helping hand in the case of buiglary and piracy, but is 



