Alum Baking Powders

The result of a trial just concluded at Cantón, N. Y., before Judge Kellogg, will have a salutary effect iu checking the sale of one class of adulterated food. Two men named Moon and Akerill, were arrested for selling adulterated baking powder in violation of the State food adulteration act. The indictment was for both selling baking powders that were inferior, adulterated and injurious to health by reason of being made from alum, and under pretense that they were a wholesome cream of tartar baking powder. A stubborn defense was made, the claim being set up that baking powders were not articles of food and that the powders the defendants were selling, which was known as Gillet's, was a Standard article of trade, and that alum baking powders inferior to it, like Davis' and others, were being sold by other dealers in the same town without complaint. lhe Uourt held that baking powders were articles of food within the meaning of the law, and the jury found the defendants guilty of all the charges. The case has at tracted much attention from being the first brought under the State Food Adulteration Act against dealers in alum baking powders. The result of the trial is to class such baking powders as adulterated articles of food, and to make their sale illegal. There are many alum baking powders put up in cans, under Eome name or btand. in addition to those sold in bulk, the sale of all of which, cautious dealers will probably be unwilling to continue.