BORAX IN BUTTER.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 91, 16 April 1908, Page 5

BORAX IN BUTTER.

AND IN OTHER COMMODITIES. WANTED : A SUBSTITUTE. [FROM OtTB, CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON, April 16. The alarm I expressed yesterday for the future of the butter industry in' view of the threatened exclusion from Britain of butter containing borax is confirmed in several good quarters "Personally," said one good authority, "I don't see why consumers should be made to eat borax with their bread-and-butter if they don't want to. The quantity may not be much— a person who eats a pound of butter a weak eats with it only a quarter of a pound of boracic acid in a year but if he is also eating borax in his bakers' goods and borax in his frozen meat and borax in some other little articles where he does not expect it, he may well begin to put up a barrier." N Another authority declared himself quite uriable to believe that the British would prohibit all preservatives in one sweep. He believed that borax and some other materials might be specifically prohibited, and then it would become necessary to ask the chemists to invent something that would pass the barriers. New Zealand could not cater for the British markets without preservatives. I • suggest that the .Blenheim chemists begin at once at the inventing business; there may be money in it 1