ARSENIC ON APPLES.
RESULT OP DUSTING AUSTRALIA’S NAME CLEAR. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPY RIGHT. (Received: Dec. 19, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. IS. Air R. E. Snowden (Tasmania) presided atl a meeting of Agents-General to discuss the situation arising out of the discoveries of arsenic in American apples. Representatives of the National Fruit Federation attended and emphasised the danger of the public scare arising from the recent prosecutions leading to a general boycotting of all imported apples. Members of the federation stated that during many years’ ' experience they had never seen a trace of arsenic in Australian apples.' The Agents-General subsequently conferred and decided to suggest to their respective Government® that, though there is no cause for .alarm, Australian growers ought to be warned against marketing apples if there is the least danger of the discovery of appreciable quantities of laTsenic, which is officially held to be deleterious. It is understood the affected American apples came from districts practising dusting instead of liquid spraying.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 December 1925, Page 9
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162ARSENIC ON APPLES. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 December 1925, Page 9
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