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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![BUTTER—continued. 13f. CotonraAL: Borax—continued. Boraxed wrappers advocated, Bennett, 208, 214. : No mixture, Bennett, 200, 201. 13g. CoLontaL: Supply : Never purchased, Ael/itt, 49. 13h. CoNSUMPTION : Now quick, Jones, 1342-46. 13j. CONTINENTAL : ; On consumer’s table in three days, 793-95. 13k. CouNTRY OF ORIGIN: Chiefly Danish, Kedlitt, 44. Secondary qualities from Ireland, Kellvtt, 44. Lovell, 13]. Hot WEATHER : : Sends butter bad in two days, Sandes, 118 ; and rotten in a week, Sandes, 120, 121. 13m. BUTTER-MILK: + | Expressed from Irish factory butter, Shanahan, 351. Retention militates against keeping quality of butter, Shanahan, 387-88. 13n. MILK: ids nis Pasteurised before creaming, to rid it of feeding taint, Shanahan, 449-56. 130. Normanpy : Complaints : None, Hudson, 501-2. 13p. PASTURE : Sceptical as to effect on keeping quality, Voelcker, 1733-34. May effect texture but not keeping quality, McFadyean, 1761-62. : 13q. RANCIDITY : Caused by imperfect manufacture, Shanahan, 438-40. Rancid butters analysed without detection of preservatives, Boseley, 1003-4. Known with preservatised butter, 1363-64, 1378-84. Would kill flavour of boracic acid, Clement, 1541-42. Could not be veiled by boracie acid, Clement, 1543. Could hardly be veiled by preservatives, Voelcker, 1714. Jones, 13r. SCANDINAVIAN : ; Sometimes preservatised, Lovell, 752-54. Only small-export from Norway, Lovell, 756- 57. Export of Finnish butter exceeds that of Norwegian, Lovell, 757. 13s. ScorcH : “Fresh” butter is saltless and unpreservatised, McCracken, 2861. Used day by day, WeCracken, 2938-39. 13t. SoIL: ; 3 : Important in relation to keeping quality of butter, Shanahan, 420-87 ; Lovell, 772. 13v. SUPPLY : In Newport (Mon.), local, Irish, and Danish, Jones, 1400. To Birmingham largely local in summer, and continental in winter, 21/1, 2472, 2474. 13w. DanisH : Supply : Chief, Kellitt, 44. Increasing in England owing to improved methods of manufacture, Dale, 260-62. Sale probably decreasing, Hudson, 538-40 ; replaced in good firms during winter by Colonial and Irish, Hudson, 541. Bulk of English trade, 7'rengrouse, 683-85, 693. Used chiefly by middle class, Trengrouse, 698. Decreasing demand because of pasteurisation, Lovell, 730. No difficulty of vending, Hehner, 5603. BUTTER—continued. 13x. InisH : Supply : For English market expressly, Sandes, 113. Turns out a ton a week, Sandes, 123. Much shipped on chance of sale, Dale, 301. Much goes to London, Dale, 303-5. 13y. UNIFORMITY : Demanded, Dale, 241-42, and secured, Dale, 245, 13z. WINTER : Very little salt, less made, Sandes, 105. Quality not so good as grass butter, Sandes, 105. 14. CATTLE FOOD CAKES: Test samples contained borax purposely added, in cotton cake one lb. to a ton, to preserve colour. It might cover inferior make, and excess of mixture might lead to fermentative change. Such preservatised cake has not been adopted. Borax or formalin not used in the trade, Voelcker, 1687-90, 1709-11. 15. CHEESE: Skim milk made into, in summer, McCracken, 2910. 16. CLEANLINESS : 16a. Burrer, [RisH : Not enforced at nor proper inspection made of Irish farms: and creameries also need looking to, Gibson, 6404. Water supply to farms not looked to, 6678; but supply is good in. North Ireland, Lough, 6679. 16b. MILK : Essential to the keeping of milk, Zong, 4578. ‘Four ounces of slime taken by heavy milk drinker per annum, Long, 4579, 4694-95. Dirt masked by preservatives, Long, 4671, 4695 ; A677. : Absolute necessity, on which preservatives put a premium, 7Zubb-Thomas, 4936-38, 5027-32, 5039-40. Aylesbury Dairy Co. before return to farmers, Hattersley, 5786. - Contracts of Manchester Pure Milk Supply Co. very stringent with farmers, and milk cans cleansed before return, Sorensen, 7060 ; and farm water. supply looked to, 7061-63 ; and cooking of milk to 40 degrees insisted on, 7064; as requisite to a daily delivery, 7139-40. Price none the less lower than average vendor, 7064, 7158-60, and footnote. Milk is received in sealed churns, 7076-79. 16c. Mink, PRESERVATISED : At a premium, Jones, 1309, 1362, 1365. Preservatives predispose to lack of cleanliness and sanitary precautions, J/cHadyean, 1753. Dirt, putrefaction, and infective quality of milk concealed, Robinson, 3312. Desirable to prevent bacterial activity by early addition of preservative, if allowed, Foulerton, 4053-57. Preservatives put a premium on cleanliness, W.C. Williams, 5306-7. Preservatives may enable cleanliness in milk trade to be dispensed with, Branton, 7430. 16d, PRESERVATIVES : . Use does not counterbalance uncleanliness ; any premium placed on cleanliness to be deprecated, Youlerton, 4113-14, 4137. Likely to lead to neglect of cleanliness, Corfield, #113. Cleanliness at a discount by their use, Aaye, 5454, Cloak for dirt, Kaye, 5519-20. Cleanliness may be discounted by their use in milk, Dupré, 5902-3. Guarantee of cleanliness lost when preservatives added to milk, 5905. Indeed, dirt is cloaked b such addition, 5942-47. ° ———— -](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3217228x_0500.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
