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Boracic Acid In The Milk

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
February
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

BORACIC ACID IN THE MILK

Charge Made That Boarding House Keepers Use It

WANTS MILK INSPECTION 

Inspector for State Dairy and Food Commission Thinks Ann Arbor Ought to Appoint One

J. R. McCall. of Kalamazoo, state dairy inspector, has been stopping at Hotel American while he inspected the dairies in this vicinity. He seems to be very thorough. The result of his work will be printed in the monthly report published by the dairy and food department. The state is doing a good work in its fight for pure food. Mr. McCall thinks Ann Arbor should have a milk inspector. He says there is no city in Michigan in proportion to its size, that uses as much milk as Ann Arbor does, and therefore only pure milk should be furnished. In conversation with a gentleman who has given much attention to this subject, Mr. McCall was told, the greatest danger of adulteration by the use of preservaline, boracic acid and like preparations, occurs after the milk leaves the hands of the milkmen. "Do you think," said the gentleman, "that if boardinghouse keepers, have a gallon or two of milk left, that they are going to let it spoil? Not much. They will make it keep for the next day. The only way to detect this adulteration is to have a boarder take away from the table a sample of milk. I have known this to be done in a number of cases."