PRESERVATIVES IN FOOD
EFFECT UPON HEALTH, OPINIONS WIDELY DIVIDED. The question whether the English ban against preservatives in food is to be held responsible for the outbreak of paratyphoid, as it was claimed to be by an article appearing in these columns last week, is still undecided in the Homeland. A more recent statement in the “Live Stock Journal” presents conflicting opinions. It says;—
“Meat traders and even certain medical men have blamed the abolition of food preservatives for the outbreaks of illness which ha?e been reported this summer, and this view was further emphasised on Tuesday at the conference of the National Federation of Meat Trn’lers’ Associations, The official view is, however that the abolition of chemical preservatives lias had nothing whatever to do with the cases of food poisoning, and that, far from there being an increase in such cases this summer, the number has been substantially lower than usual notwithstanding the exceptionally fine and warm weather.
“So far as dairy p'roduce is concerned the National Farmers’ Union has decided to await the results of n full year's trial before coming to any con'-lnsion upon the effect of the re stiicti'ins.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 288, 21 November 1928, Page 9
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