ARSENIC IN COCOA.
COMPANY'S HEAVY LOSS.
350 TONS SACRIFICED.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 7.10 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 18.
Owing to the discovery of one-fortieth of a grain of arsenic per lb. in cocoa, a retail firm was fined 40s and the Rowntree Company, of York, the manufacturers of the cocoa, £20 for selling an adulterated article
The evidence showed that carbonate of potash, used to make the cocoa more digestive, contained a trace of arsenic.
The Rowntree Company was thunderstruck at the discovery and immediately sacrificed 350 tons of cocoa, valued at between £100 and £250 a ton, and endeavoured to collect supplies distributed in the period of two months when the tainted carbonate was used.
A Homo Office expert stated that thiß was the first time in his experience that arsenic had got into food • through carbonate of potash.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18278, 20 December 1922, Page 9
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