FOOD PRESERVATIVES

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5474, 31 December 1904, Page 10

FOOD PRESERVATIVES

■Tinned emergency foods and bad condensed milks are often adulterated with boracic acid to make them keep. Many of these'foods are necessary to the existence of an army in war time, but you should fight shy of them in the piping days of peace. Dr Merkel, of Munich, in an article dealing with the question as to whether meats preserved with boracic acid may be used without harm, reports hi* experiences with the internal administration of boracic acid. For years he has used its salts combined with other kidney remedies, but waa obliged to stop them because of digestive disturbances. He then used boracic acid alone in doses of one to two grammes, diaolvod two pints of water, the whole to be given in the course of 24 hours.. In a large number of cases he obtained good effects in kidney troubles, but owing to the digestive disturbances had to stop it* administration. - Beware of giving cheap condensed milk to babies. The only way to rear a baby safely is to let him be suckled by his own mother, for in this way the milk is never exposed to the microbe-laden air.