BORIC ACID IN BUTTER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9740, 5 March 1914, Page 2

BORIC ACID IN BUTTER.

BANNED IN AMERICAN MARKET. (Peh Press Association-.) AUCKLAND. .March 3. The strict prohibition aga:i'.-,i the use of preservative in butter onioreed In the Federal Food and Drugs Department under the law of the United State* recently caused the condemnation ot two consignments of New Zealand butter. The season given for the decision was that it contained "definite traces oi

boric acid. - ' No finality Into yei been readied in the controversy regarding the effect of adding boraeie ue;d to butter as a preservative, in the meantime the law of New Zealand permit.* the use of not more than oS grains pel pound, and a certain percentage is allowed in butter manufactured for tin English market. On the other hand th American law will not permit the importation of butter containing any preservative other than salt. The big port of Seattle k at present probably the largest American consumer of Australian and New Zealand produce, and it happened that, when the first con.signment of 1000 boxes was condemned 'on arrival on November 15, there was a

great deal of speculation. Colonial butter had been selling at a less, and the withdrawal of this quantity eased the position for a number of ''jobbers."' A second consignment of 400 hexes was condemned towards the end, of January.

The dairy companies are now adopting strict precautions to keep the acid out of the produce, as the slightest trace of the boric acid detected in buttoi by the Tinted States analyst;- leads to its condemnation.