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we require its reshipment, and they can not take it back, because the 
law prevents its reentry. No mince meat can be reentered in Ger- 
many cut up into pieces less than 8 pounds in weight; none less than 
that can enter the ports under any circumstances, on the ground that 
they can not inspect it. I do not question their law; I think it is all 
right. But the fact appears that these sausages they send us can not 
go back to where they were made under any pretext whatever. 
The Cuarrman. One example of that would settle that business, 
would it not? 
Mr. Winey. Yes, it probably will. 
Mr. Apams. You do not refuse all those? 
Mr. Wirry. No; we admit a great many. 
Mr. Apams. Are they preserved with salicylic acid? 
Mr. Wrzy. Not always; usually with boracic acid and nitrate of 
potash, and, by the way, a new preservative has sprung up they call 
‘‘viandol.” The first shipment of viandol we refused, because we did 
not know what it was, and we were justified in believing that it might 
be injurious to health. “We required them to state what its chemical 
composition is, and we find it is the acetate of alumina, which is about 
as bad a form of alumina as you can get into the human system. We 
excluded it because we decided it to be injurious to health. 
Mr. Scorr. We do not export sausages to Germany, then? 
Mr. Wirey. No; it is contrary to the German law. 
_Mr. Scorr. Or to any other country? 
Mr. Witey. Very little, I think. 
Mr. Scorr. Not to amount to anything? 
Mr. Witxy. No; I believe not. 
Mr. Ropry. We can not send canned meats to Germany? 
Mr. Wixxy. Nothing that is less than 8 pounds in size—4 kilo- 
grams. 
Just one other item, and I shall not take up any more time of the 
committee on this, although I want you to understand what we are 
doing and why we want the money we have asked for next year. 
The canned vegetables and fruits we get we find largely adulterated; 
we get a great deal of that kind of food from Europe. We find that 
the use of glucose is quite common in those fruits, and artificial colors 
are used almost universally. As far as glucose is concerned, we do not 
intend to raise the question that it is injurious to health, provided it is 
made in accordance with the provisions imposed in the country where it 
is manufactured. But when it is not manufactured in the right way 
there is likely to be some such result as happened in England several 
years ago where they poisoned 8,000 people, 600 of whom died and a 
great many were injured permanently for life, by reason of the arse- 
nic which the glucose contained. This glucose being used in the manu- 
facture of food products, I should insist rigidly always on the exami- 
nation of these articles for arsenic before they were allowed to come 
into the country. But unless they are named on the label they are 
misbranded and could not come in under the law. 
Then, as I have said, they are almost universally artificially colored. 
The use of artificial colors is a matter of taste, and we reserve our 
decision in regard to injury to health in all these cases for future 
consideration, but unless the label specifies that they are artificially 
colored, and says what they are colored by, we exclude them on the 
ground that they are mislabeled; because the law says ‘‘ in any respect 
