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that very few analyses are made of the expensive wines, brandies 
and foods of the wealthy. Provision is made for such analysis, 
but those who can afford the luxury of expensive beverages and 
foods are expected to pay for any analysis they may desire 
to have made. 
But as very few articles are adulterated in this colony, both 
rich and poor are equally at the mercy of the foreign manufac- 
turer. Among these are firms of high reputation who supply 
the same quality of goods to the wildest savage that they 
supply to the most civilized gourmet ; but I am sorry to say there 
are others among them who prepare an inferior quality for 
export, who think anything good enough for people abroad, and 
who afford abundant justification for the oft-repeated remark 
that the West Indies is one of the dustbins for the disposal of 
the refuse food of more civilized countries. And if we think ill 
of these unscrupulous merchants, what can we think of the 
Governments that allow certain articles to be exported which 
they declare unfit for consumption by their own people. France 
Germany, Spain, Italy, Holland, allow foods and wines con- 
taining salicylic and boric acids to be exported, while they 
absolutely prohibit the sale of such articles at home. Even 
England allows tea to be exported which the Customs’ authorities 
declare unfit for home consumption. The Governments of these 
countnes act on the principle that every nation must protect 
itself. Many countries abroad have no food laws, and the people 
tLttT rZT eH oonse( l upnfcl y without the means of pro- 
tection. These are the countries where the food adulterator 
Cotnms I8 ow P fod h r tingS T ndS i Here ’ and in most English 
merchants whn Q i & ™ , fact must be known to the 
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opinion that the various Governm^t ''T, ex P rea sion of his 
to be manufactured for export which wotld tTco 
forborne consumption, a’state of thTn^ 
Speaking of milk adulteration the 
account of a case of added water A milk th ° followm § 
30 per cent, of water to his milk and on H a ve 1 ndor had added 
he informed the Magistrate there was 30 per fent^f *£?*§ Called ’ 
pei cent, ot added water. 
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