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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![452 68j 1. CREAM—continued. Nearly always boric compounds, Hehner, 5584. Cream as sold by milkmen rarely preservatised, Hehner, 5576, 5581. Cream from grocers almost always preservatised, 5582-83, always boric compounds, in many cases 56 grains per lb., 5584. Grocers’ trade in cream calls for preservatives, 5585-88, and induces them to use them, 5589-91, and mislead the public as to keeping quality of cream, 5592, Cream preservatised by formalin, borax, boracic acid, and saccharated lime (called “viscogen”) which retards curdling -and evidence of sourness and is an alkali, Richmond, 5659-64, “Special Cream Com- pound” used, a borax-boracic acid-saccharin mixture, 5664-66. Aylesbury Dairy Co. used to use 0°2 per cent. of boracic acid in cream, 5667, not now, 5668, it was objected to and found to be unnecessary, 5669. No preservative used now at all, 5670-72. Cream collected by Aylesbury Dairy Co. in London except one supply from Sussex, Hattersley, 5787-88. No preservative used, 5789, even in clotted cream, 5791, also made in London, 5792. Only one verbal and one letter of complaint of cream per 2,000 and 20,000 quarts respectively, 5790, and less frequent relatively than as to milk, 5872- 78. No preservative required for Devon- shire clotted cream sent to London, 5793. Clotted cream keeps longer than ordinary cream, 5794-95. Grocers sell cream because they can preservatise it, 5854-56. Cream has been sold without any preserva- tive, Lough, 6688-89. Cream not much used in children’s hospitals, Still, 6803. Used chiefly for marasmus, 6,804. Same objections apply as to preser- vatives as in the case of milk, 6805. Cream more commonly preservatised than milk, Hope, 6834, and sold both by dairy- men and grocers, 6836. Preservatives not necessary, 6835, and not approved by medical authorities, 6837. Cream needs no preservatives if traded by 7119-20. The grocery trade has made them requisite, 7118. None used in Copenhagen, 7120, with extremes of temperature, 7121- 22, and cream travelling three to five hours, 7123-24. From 140 to 150 grains of boracic acid found per gallon of cream taken hap- hazard in Manchester, 7141-45. 68} 2. Cream: Admixture : Often all at top of jar, Voelcker, 1642. 68k. CREAMERIES : ; Long used at Dunragit, 1/ceCracken, 2852. Butter demands a preservative, Bannister, 3536-37 ; without preservative it goes off quickly ; much used, 3538-39 ; not neces- sary in butter for quick consumption, 3540 ; necessity not universal, even in creamery butter, 3541-43. Nearly all the Irish creameries use preserva- tives in summer, 662]. Only butter made to creamery industry. They are asked for, but less quantity than used would suffice. No complaints made of use of preservatives, 6625. Use of preservatives deprecated in agricultural products, 6659. They would be quite unnecessary in a few years in creame- ries with proper organisation, 6660. Pre- sumably preservatives in butter would be harmful, 6668. They should be done away with, and are being got rid of in witness’s creameries, 6676. Borax chiefly used, 6681. 68]. Datry Propucts : Milk, cream, butter, and condensed milk most frequently treated with borax, boracic acid, and formalin; very occasionally with salicylic acid, nitrates, and sulphites, Bose/ey, 951-52. Not needed, Long, 4571,/4577-78. 681. Darry Propucts—contimued., Used promiscuously, 56 grains per gallon known, and 1-20th oz. per gallon, Long, 4579-81. ‘ Use opposed by the Central Chamber of Agriculture, by formal resolution, Car- rington Smith, 4410-11, 4487. Preserva- tives advertised at Islington dairy show, 4540-44. List of preservatives handed in, 4544-47, (App. No. 11). Preservatives held to be seldom used by farmers, but often by dealers, 4549. Unnecessary and undesirable, and a cloak for dirt, Kaye, 5448-51, 5519-20. Not used by Aylesbury Dairy Company, save in some imported butter sold by them, Richmond, 5641-42. Commonly used, /%sher, 4717. 68m. Fruits, BoTrLeD : ‘ Not used by Messrs. Keiller, Boseley, 1062. 68n. GRocERY TRADE: ; d Salt, saltpetre, sugar, oil, vinegar, and glucose mostly used, Copeman, 1169-70. 680. HAMS: Dusting by, and packing in, alone known, Kellitt, 26. One lb. needed per ewt., Gregson, 924. None detected on Danish hams, Kel/itt 69-72. 68p. JAMS: In some 50 per cent. of makes, Boseley, 968. None in fruit for jam, Boseley, 969-70 None by Messrs. Keiller, Doseley, 1143. Messrs. Keiller would like to use them, Boseley, 1144. Needed for large quantities of jam, as made, if required to be kept several months, unless it be cooked to stiffness, Boseley, 1084-85. Sugar used, Copeman, 1231. 7 Preservatives not known to be used in pre- served fruits and jams; not used by Crosse and Blaskwall Blackwell, 4863-64, 4871, 4875, and quite unnecessary, 4865, 4872, 4918-19. None used in jam pulp, 4866-67. Jam from imported pulp only as regards apricot made by Crosse and Black- well, 4905-7, and believed to be free from preservative, 4908-9, which would flavour the pulp, 4910-13. No preservative needed in any pulp, 4914-17. Preservatives do not cheapen jam, 4920-22. Jam found to contain salicylic acid from } to 44 grains per lb., W. C. Wallcams, 5180. Bottled fruits and some jams found free from preservatives, which seem not to be needed in large, clean fruits, 5181, as opposed to small and easily damaged fruit, 5182. Noproceedings taken, 5183. Difti- culty apart from preservatives thought of as to small fruit jams, 5184, but not upheld if makers do really get on without them ; 4% grains per lb. in any case too much, 5185. Use not decreasing, 5264-67. Quality of fruit a prime factor, gud pre- servatives, 5268-71. round salicylic acid not requisite, 5272, and used, where used, often without thought, 5273, and its mould spores, 5326-30. Imported pulps seldom preservatised ; preservative un- necessary, 5331-35. 68q. MARGARINE : sometimes in summer 1522-25. In Birmingham 84 tained boracic acid, Z/7ll, 2849-50, 2385, 2388. Used at Dunragit, McCracken, 2853. Neces- sary in trade of to-day, McCracken, 2857. Dutch method of milkless and unpreserva tised manufacture not known, McCracken 2891-98. Quantity needed about’ 3 per cent., WeCracken, 2929-30. only, ne . _ a ee ee ee ee eS - WV a a oe](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3217228x_0526.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
