PRESERVATIVES IN MEAT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19249, 13 August 1924, Page 7

PRESERVATIVES IN MEAT

LINLEY CHILLING PROCESS. USE OP FORMALDEHYDE CONDEMNED. PreM Association—By Telegraph,—Copyright. LONDON, August 1L (Received August 12, at 7,05 p.ovi The Departmental Committee which is reporting on the use of formaldehyde as a preservative in connection with chilled beef with' special reference to imports from Australia and New Zealand, expresses the opinion that the Linley process should not be made an exception to the general condemnation of the use oi formaldehyde in articles of food. It therefore recommends that the treatment ot meat with formaldehyde or any of Us derivatives should be specifically prohibited.—Reuter. When the consignment of meat chilled by the Linley process arrived in London from Auckland on March 51 last, it was inspected three days later by the Departmental Committee on Preservatives in Food. Subsequently the port medical officer satisfied himself that, apart from the presence of formaldehyde, the whole consignment was unfit for food, and with the consent of the consignee it was being destroyed. Following upon this action, Viscount Curzon suggested in the House ot Commons that no further experimental shipments of foodstuffs treated with formaldehyde should be allowed in view oi the Government Committee’s definite advice that food so preserved was unfit lor human consumption and injurious to health. Mr Wheatley, the Minister ot health, said he was unable to make any statement pending the issue of an interim report on the subject by the Departmental Committee.