TINNED FOODS

Evening Star, Issue 18503, 10 December 1923, Page 6

TINNED FOODS

DOCTOR’S FAVORABLE TESTIMONY. Press Association—By Teleg.aph—Copyright. LONDON, December 8. Now that tlie question of the healthfulness of canned foods and tho use of preservatives in food is again attracting public attention, some remarks in that connection by Dr William Savage, the medical officer of health for the County of Somerset, and a recognised authority on food matters, are worth quoting. In his book just published on canned foods in relation to health, he says that, compared with fresh foods and the very haphazard and inadequate_ and neglected control which they receive, canned foods are undoubtedly safe. Experience and direct study alike show that tho danger from tin poisoning is negligible. Canned foods take their share, but not an undue share, as vehicles of infection in relation to food poisoning outbreaks. Special liability to cause botulism poisoning is serious on account of a fatality when it does occur, but it is insignificant in its incidence. No one who has studied the subject can doubt the very great, value of this method of preservation to tho community, and the dangers from its causes arc not great, and at least are as easily controllable as those from unprepared food.—A. and N.Z. Cable.