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Considering tliat evaporated apples are for the most part used as a material for 

 'compot (apple sauce), and that in the ])repa ration of such material 100 grams of 

 apples absorb about the same amount of water, and that since not more than 200 

 grams of compot, containing 100 grams of apples, are consumed by one person at 

 a meal, it follows that through the consumption of that qiiautity not more than 

 0.09 gram of zinc salt would be introduced into the human organism, a quantity 

 which, in view of the fact that such apples are not eaten regularly every day, would 

 be quite insufficient to endanger humau health. 



Dr. LoocK, 

 Chief of the City Bureau of Inspection, Diisseldqrf. 



DiJssELDORF, November 28, 1892. 



COLLECTION OF SAMPLES AT NEW YORK FACTORIES. 



In view of the magnitude of tlie interests involved, further instruc- 

 tions were given in the autumn of 1895 to investigate the methods 

 employed at some of the inincipal factories in northwestern New York 

 devoted to the preparation of evaporated apples for the foreign mar- 

 ket. The methods of manufacture which were observed in these facto- 

 ries have already been described. In addition to this a large number 

 of samples of evaporated apples was secured. These samples were 

 taken in person with the purpose of securing in a maniier as represent- 

 ative as possible the different grades of the prepared fruit under con- 

 ditions wliich would, after proper chemical analysis, determine definitely 

 the occurrence of zinc in the x^roducts of manufacture and the condi- 

 tions in which it occurred in maximum or minimum amounts. The 

 samples secured will be sufficiently described in a tabular form hereafter. 



During the course of this inspection buyers and shippers of evapo- 

 rated fruits were interviewed and requested to give their exx^eriences in 

 seeking to sell the merchandise in foreign i)orts. Without exception, 

 all exi^orters or dealers with exporters reported great difficulties ex^^e- 

 xienced in certain German markets, and all were anxious for some 

 method to be adopted whereby the objections to American evaporated 

 apples might be removed and the markets of all Europe opened to 

 them without sanitary restrictions. 



VIEWS OF DEALERS IN EVAPORATED FRUITS. 



In general, the views entertained by dealers and exporters are clearly 

 set forth in the following extracts from corresx^ondeuce: 



From Messrs. Miiller & Fuckel, Hamburg, i^ovember 26, 1895: 



We are under the impression that our authorities are at present using great leni- 

 ency in the adiuiuistratiou of the law which authorizes them to forbid the sale of " 

 evaporated apples contaminated withziuc. We, at least, do not remember that any 

 lots here, during this year, have been confiscated for this reason. The contamination ' 

 in all cases, as far as we know, was only a small one. 



We have pleasure to send you by same mail two samples of evaporated apples '\ 

 which, according to an official analysis made here, are reported to contain 0.009 per \ 

 cent and 0.004 per cent of zinc, respectively. 



