Report of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire into the use of preservatives and colouring matters in the preservation and colouring of food : together with minutes of evidence, appendices and index.
- Great Britain. Committee on Food Preservatives.
- Date:
- 1901
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire into the use of preservatives and colouring matters in the preservation and colouring of food : together with minutes of evidence, appendices and index. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Chief preservative, Zrengrouse, 617-18. Superior to salt asa preservative, 7’rengrouse, 702. Not used 30 pores back, Gregson, 858. Components borax and boracic acid, Clement, 1529. A drug, used medicinally, Walford, 1835. A saturated solution of sb, Be//, 2827-28. Found in many vegetables, in wines, and hop plant, Attfeld, 6550. 8a. CHARACTER : é Borax and boracic acid are, one the salt, one the derivative, of the other, Willams, 2231. 8b. INsEcTION INTO MEAT: Unknown, Gregson, 902-3. 8c. PRESERVATIVE PROPERTIES : Studied, Corfield, 5071. Service and security doubted, W. C. Williams, 5255, 5261. Only ‘ote Aine to be condoned in any way, Hehner, 5614, and solely in butter, in annually diminishing quantity to vanishing point, 5615. } As a commercial preservative contains on an average 56°8 per cent. of boric anhydride, Richmond, 5676-77. Nota germicide, 5742, rather an antiseptic, 5743. 8d. SEASONAL INFLUENCE : Not known, Walford, 1851-52. Se. SurGIcAL UsE: Relatively harmless for external use, Hand- ford, 2264. Used as lotion and dressing with alleged bad results, Handford, 2283. Studied, Bell, 2783-84. Used largely for washing out bladder, eld, 2797. Fatal results following internal . washing, would equally have followed use of water, Bell, 2799, 2800-2. Inquiry held to have followed, Robinson, 3304. Used externally, Coryield, 5091. 8f. BUTTER : Objections made by Brazilian Government in 1891 as regards tinned butter, Lovell, 720. Large amounts kill bad flavour and partial decomposition, Lovell, 723, 783-89. 8¢. Eacs:: . Inserted in solution, Weliams, 2232. 8h. FisH : é pte Inserted in solution, Williams, 2232. r.) a oko) 0 Objected to, Long, 4661-63. 8k. GAME: Sprinkled to keep it fresh, Hudson, 518-19. 8]. MARGARINE : } Found in mixture of margarine and butter, and in margarine alone, Cassa/, 3852. 8m. MEAT: Sprinkled to keep meat fresh, //udson, 518-19. Not common in fresh meats; sometimes used in sausages ; more commonly used in salt meats, German sausages (under $ per cent.), bacon, and ham (from } to ? per cent.), Fisher, 4717. 9. BORAX : No opposition to use found, Ae//itt, 7. 9a. Bacon, TREATMENT OF: In boxes ; dusted on bacon to prevent fly- blow and absorb moisture, Ke//7tt, 11, 12, 15, 23. 9b. CANADIAN Hoc Propucts : Dry borax, only, used, bennett, 138, 143-44 Use became general 20 years ago, Bennett, 232. Sprinkled, 4 ozs. of dry borax to 56 lbs., during last 20 years, after cure, Bennett, 128-30, 184-87. ; Borax washed off on arrival here, Lennett, 128-30, 184-87 455 9. BORAX—continued. 9b. Canaptan Hoc Propucts—continued. Washing‘ rids meat of 80 per cent of borax, and of whole in winter, Bennett, 140-42. Sprinkling only method known, Bennett, 151. Noticed more than in English and Irish bacon, Bennett, 135. 9c. Cost: Expensive, sixor seven cents per lb.in America, regson, 888. Tne genehys for packing purposes, Bannister, 9d. Hams, TREATMENT OF: American, packed with borax from three to six weeks, Kellitt, 57, 59, 63. Borax washed off by retailer, Kellitt, 58, 62. Only method known or desired, Bennett, 171, 172. 9e. Hams, Usk on: Put on in packing process, Wellitt, 61. For preserving, after cure, with salt and salt- petre, Bannister, 3648. 9f. [INJECTION INTO MEAT VESSELS : Not known, Bennett, 192. Would flavour the meat, Bennett, 192. In_ solution of salt made in curing some Danish bacon, Faber, 4237-40. 10. BORAX AND BORACIC ACID : Difference not known, Kellitt, 10, 25. Mixture guaranteed to contain 50 per cent. of boracic acid, Clement, 1530. : Would be surprised to learn that ;8;ths of the mixture consisted of boracic acid, Clement, 1531. 11. BORIC GLYCERIDE : Contains boracic acid and glycerine, and is un- workable, Shanahan, 347. 12. BORON : Preparation of borax, but drier, Kellitt, 24. Quick absorbent of moisture, Kellett, 24. Objectionable ingredient in boracic acid, Mce- Fadyean, 1804. Boric compounds sold freely, but not in large domestic use, Cameron, 2531 ; boracic acid and glacialine the only known boric compound in Leeds, Cameron, 2537-38. Borax and boracic compound used as preservatives, McCracken, 2856, 3007-9. Boric compounds commonly used, W.C. Wellcams, 5148 ; borate found in sausages, and pork pies, 5180; boracic preservatives al] mixtures, 5246- 47. 12a. BACON, USE ON: prt, Hung bacon in summer, Kellett, 64. 12b. BUTTER, USE IN: Boric compounds found, Cameron, 2528, 13. BUTTER : 13a. ADULTERATED : ; Most frequently preservatised, Awye, 5458. 13b. ARGENTINE : Refrigerated butter commands high price, Lovell, 773. Preservatised, Clement, 1516; 4 per cent., Lovell, 774. Varying quality, Clement, 1515. 13c. AUSTRALASIAN : : Australian butter known as “ Colonial butter ” Clement, 1506. 13d. AUSTRALASIAN : Consumption : Asa rule within a month of leaving the re- frigerator, but sometimes kept for months, Clement, 1544-46. 13e. BELGIAN : Does not keep well, Lovell, 766. 13f. CotontaL: Borax : Wrappers soaked in solution effective means of preserving, Bennett, 202-3.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3217228x_0499.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
