Foods, their composition and analysis : a manual for the use of analytical chemists and others : with an introductory essay on the history of adulteration / by Alexander Wynter Blyth.

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1896
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    II.—ADULTERATION IN FRANCK § 7. In France, from very early times, the general supervision of provisions, as to purity and quality, and the ins])ection of •weights and nieasxires, were under the ''police des commissaires,* and various special statutes were enacted from time to time. Thus, an ancient statute (1292) of the Paris brewers foi-bade the adulteration of beer ; whoever put into beer baye, pimento or '■poix resiyie' was to be fined 20 francs, and his brassins were to be confiscated, for such things are neither good nor loyal to put in beer, for they are bad for the head and for the body, for the healthy and the sick. A later statute, dated March 16, 1G30, among various sanitary provisions, forbade the use of buckwheat, yvtoye or other bad matters under a penalty of 40 Parisian pounds. Judges wei'e also to examine the materials befoi'e use, in order to see that thex'e was nothing in them impure, heated, mouldy or spoiled. If such wei'e found, the materials were to be cast into the river, f § 8. Flour and Bread.—There were various special regulations as to flour and bread ; by an Ordonnance of the Provost of Paris, October 11, 1382, the miller was to grind the corn without mixing it, to increase his fee, with bran, pease, beans, or anything else save that which had been given him to grind. J Later, by a decree, dated July 13, 1420, the bakers were forbidden to be millers, it being thought that if they ground the wheat as well as made it into bread, there would be facilities for fraudulent deal- ing. The punishment of bakers for false bread—whether the falseness were admixture of foreign substances, the use of damaged floui-, or simply light weight—was very similar to that of English bakers, except that it partook more of the character of a religious penance. Thus, in 1525, a baker convicted of false La police des commissah-fs . . . il eat de leurs soins de faire punir h dSit ties vivres corrumpus, cdierez, fcdsijiez, les faux polls it hsj'aux viesnres. Traite de la Police de la Mare. Tom. i. liv. i. titre xi., chap. vi. t Zro. police des commmaires visitoimt les Marchez, et il estoit de lews sains cVy pi-ocurer Cabondance des vivres et des mitres p>rovisions ndccssaires a la suhsistance des citoyens, ils empechoient qu'il ne s'y commist aucime J'raiide soil en la qiialite ou au prix, soit au poids ou en la mesure, ils estoient princi- palement chargds de se donner tous les sains a Vdgard des grains, du pain, de la viande, et du vin. Lnc. cit. X Que nul meusnier ne sait si as6 ne si hardy sur quanque il se peut me/aire envers le ray, en corps, et en hiens, de mesler, mettre ou fair wettre en aucune maniere es farines des blez qu'ils moudront aucune mixtion on meslee pour rendre plus grande moulure, comme de bran, dorge, de pais, de fives, ou autres chases qnelconques, qui ne soit du hie- qui leur sera bailU. Trait6 de la Police, t. ij. liv. v. titre ix.
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