Poor Food Inspection

    A physician writing in the Medical Record remarks that the public now so much interested in canned beef for the army seem to forget the extent to which food adulteration affects civilians. The use of boratic and salicylic acids to prevent decomposition is harmful to digestion and ought to be prohibited. In any case, canned beef is a small item compared with the general subject of adulteration. The inspection of food supplies of all kinds is far more effective in England than in America.