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
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    76. UANTITY —continued. 76f. Boracrc Acrp : Milk—continued. In separated milk, 28 grains per gallon, H7I!, 2367. From 21 to 126 grains per gallon found, //7/1, 2334, Reasons for differences vary, Hill, 2335. Varying in Leeds, highest being 20 grains per gallon, Cameron, 2528-30. Non-limitation would be difficult, Boyce, 2775. Forty grains in milk would show meddling with milk, Bell, 2818. Five grains per pint of milk quite safe, Bond, 3089, Unnecessary and unusual to add 26 grains per pint, but nothing to prevent it, or.repeated dosing of milk, Bond, 3099, 3100, 3102. For young children 44 orains per pint not safe, but poor children not likely to get that amount, Brierley, 3247-51. Thirty-five grains per gallon sufficient, Brierley, 3175. Eighty grains per pint found in December sample, Blyth, 3439-46. Sixty grains per gallon found, Bannister, 3636 Person on milk diet might consume nearly 20 grains of boracic acid, Rideal, 3692. Quantity equal to 59 grains of boron-trioxide, and 101 grains of crystallised boracic acid found per gallon of milk, Cassal, 3816, 3865, Smallest quantity determined equal to 19 grains per gallon of crystallised boracic acid, Cassal, 3817. Would not allow 80 grains of boracic acid per pint, Youlerton, 4155. Over 100 grains per gallon found, and convic- ° tion obtained, Fisher, 4736, 4762 ; boracic acid used recklessly, 4763-64. Has found 20 grains in a sample, probably result of repeated dosage, Kaye, 5459-62. Kighty grains to the pint of milk a very large dose, Attfield, 6560-61; but probably an isolated case, 6562. 76g. Borax IN BUTTER: Infinitesimal, Bennett, 150. Heavily boraxed butter would be rejected, Bennett, 211-138. Excessive quantity needed to flavour butter to point of rejection, Bennett, 215, 218. No proceedings known on account of excess of weight, Bennett, 221-26. 76h. Borax AND Boractc Acip IN BuTTER: Only minimum requisite amounts used, Lovell, 718, (3s One-half per cent. keeps butter three or four days, Lovell, 725, 788, 793. Analyses for, frequent, Lovell, 775. Samples found to yield 0°71, 0°74, and 1°3 per cent. (over 90 grains per lb.), Jones, 1309, 1322. : Limit of use not determined, Jones, 1310, 1312, 1385. Percentage of 0°25 said to be needed, Walford, 1861-62. Dr, Dyer found an average of 4 per cent., and in 5 boracised samples over 1 per cent., Fisher, 4717-21. Preservatised with 0°77 per cent., Kaye, 5458. Daily dosage in butter not likely to be large, Kaye, 5507-8. butter going to Great Ormond Street Hospital has been found to contain 17°4 to 47°6 grains of borax per Ib., and has been given to children, no ill-results noted, Stel, 6814. Moe little taken, and that only by a few, OC 15. 76]. PRESERVATIVES : Milk: Quantity found : rom 13% to 210 grains found per gallon, 'Veiliams, 2116-18, 2121. Tek Quantity used : One half to one oz. per 16 gallons, McCracken, 2878-79. Need not exceed $0 grains or so per gallon, McCracken, 2928. 76. QUANTITY—-continued. 76j. PRESERVATIVES: Milk—continued 76k. Quantity used—continued. One hundred grains per gallon of. dissolved preparation outside Southampton, in sum- mer only, Brierley, 3174, 3177. Larger amounts than vendors declare to be necessary, Brierley, 3212-13. Should be restricted, Rideal, 3693. Liable to be in needless quantity, Cassa/, 3812. 76l, PRESERVATIVES : Quantity : An important factor, Walford, 1873. Useful, questionably harmless, Walford 1874. Maximum limits should be insisted on, Vasey, 2058, 2076. . . Should be restricted, McCracken, 2931. Higher proportions than 35455 0f formaldehyde and sg55 of borax and boracic acid mixture might be taken ; question one of idiosyn- crasy ; these amounts safe,if declared, for majority of persons, and would suffice for trade purposes, Ardeal, 3691, 3694-96. 76m 1, PRESERVATIVES: Butter : Weighed very exactly, Sandes, 97 ; same pro- portion whole year, Sandes, 104; one-half - per cent. not enough, Shanahan, 343; three- quarters per cent. requisite, Shanahan, 375- 78. One-half per cent. sufficient, Hudson, 492; and never exceeded, 499, One per cent. ample,C7ement, 1518 ; 17 grains per lb. enough, Walliams, 2129, 76m 2. PRESERVATIVES : Butter ; Quantity found : From 1 to 112 grains per lb., Walliams, 2125, DISK. Very small quantity to 1 per cent. Hehner 4 ; 5566. 76n. PRESERVATIVES : Cream : Should be limited and standardised, Voelcker, 1749-50. 760. PRESERVATIVES: Milk: ‘Should be limited and standardised, Voelcher 1749-50. If useful, might be: distinctly dangerous McFadyean, 1752. . RENNET: One sample found to contain boracie acid preservative, Voelcker, 1685-86. 78. RESTRICTIONS AS TO USE OF PRESER- VATIVES : 78a. Boracic Actp: Indiscriminate Use: Objectionable in food, Walford, 1883. Prohibition of indiscriminate use of boracic acid should be enforced if large doses are put into milk, Attyield, 6562-65. Should not be used indiscriminately in milk, Anderson, 7207, ’ 78b. Boractc Acid: Butter : Stipulations : None as to factory butter, Dale, 321-25, None, 7'rengrouse, 649. -~I ~I 78c, PRESERVATIVES : Indiscriminate Use: Legislation as to undue use advocated, Lovell, 722, 724. 78d. PRESERVATIVES: Restrictions : Restriction to one preservative material and to a limited quantity should be enforced on vendors, and use allowed only in three hot ’ months of the year, Long, 4689. Restriction on the use of preservatives desirable, Fisher, 4726, 4737 ; boracic acid in milk being instanced, 4728 ; anda superior - limit called for, 4732 ; though some difficulty might arise in cases, 4733-35 ; and especially as *to formaldehyde, 4741-42; at present, 4752 ; limit should be placed on preserva- — tives on salted and preserved meats (as ham and bacon) and fish, 4745.
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