Preservatives and other chemicals in foods: their use and abuse / by Otto Folin.
- Otto Folin
- Date:
- 1914
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Preservatives and other chemicals in foods: their use and abuse / by Otto Folin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ous effects of benzoates and benzoic acid. The German report was finally published a few months ago (December, 1913). A somewhat free but true translation of the non-technical conclusions reached by the German investigators is as follows: General Conclusions of the Royal Depart¬ ment of Public Health, Berlin, 1913 1 1. “A single sufficiently large dose of benzoic acid (benzoate) produces vomit¬ ing in animals capable of vomiting [dogs]; it is difficult to produce general symptoms of poisoning in such animals [by means of a single dose]. “ By the daily administration of benzoic acid for several successive days a characteristic form of poisoning re¬ vealed by sudden attacks of epileptic¬ like cramps is obtained. These attacks are preceded for hours or days by oc¬ casional light prodromal symptoms, and 1 The bracketed phrases are not contained in the original.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31345670_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
