Lanterna Rally

Author: Alex John Wedderburn

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-27

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9781332032426

Excerpt from Report on the Extent and Character of Food and Drug Adulteration On the appointment of Mr. A. J. Wedderburn as special agent of the Department, a circular approved by the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture was sent to about 9,000 druggists and to all the officers and members of State pharmaceutical and dairy associations whose addresses could be obtained. The text of this circular was as follows: Please furnish me with any information that you may have in relation to the use of pepsin or black pepsin in (so-called) butter-making. I should be glad to learn also anything in relation to any other butter and cheese adulterants and to obtain any reliable data concerning the adulteration of children's foods, dairy and pharmaceutical preparations. I inclose franked envelope for reply. Please furnish me the names and addresses which you may know of any State or municipal officials charged with executing the laws relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs, also the names of officers or members of the pharmaceutical associations and dairy organizations in your State, and oblige. Many replies were received to this circular. Mr. Wedderburn during his service as special agent classified and abstracted the greater number of them, but the material was not entirely put in shape for publication. By instructions of the Secretary of Agriculture I have endeavored to complete this work and prepare the material for transmittal. The details of the work and the use to be made of the material collected were left entirely to the judgment of the special agent. All the information in regard to the use of black pepsin has been omitted for the reason that the subject is fully discussed in Farmers' Bulletin No. 12. The Chief of the Division of Chemistry does not hold himself in any way responsible for the opinions of the correspondents quoted in the selections made for publication, nor for all the conclusions arrived at by the compiler. In fact, there are many cases in which these opinions are without doubt erroneous, as where one correspondent describes flour as largely adulterated with "earth from the South," and another asserts that the sugars of commerce are also adulterated, and where a third affirms that artificial eggs are manufactured. The information which is here presented illustrates the attitude of the public mind to the problem of adulteration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.